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“I’ll let you know if we need your help.” Luisa said, her voice coming out sharper than she intended.

Clark’s smile dropped, but he restored it almost immediately, and an awkward silence settled over the table for a few seconds until he broke it with another ferrible joke. A few minutes later, their food was brought to them.

“Luisa, are you sure everything’s okay? You haven’t taken a bite yet,” Thalassa asked, noticing Luisa was just poking her salad with her fork after she and Clark had already been eating for a while.

“Everything’s fine, Lassa. Don’t worry,” Luisa replied, forcing herself to take a forkful of salad to ease Thalassa’s

concern.

But she could feel Clark’s eyes on her every few seconds. Not wanting to raise his suspicions, she forced herself to finish everything on her plate, acting as normal as she could.

When they were done, Clark paid the bill. Just as Luisa thought they were about to leave, he excused himself.

“Will the ladies excuse me? I need to use the restroom for a bit.”

Thalassa nodded for him to go ahead. Clark got up and walked off towards the washrooms

“Clark, your phone…” Thalassa called after him, but he was already too far away to hear.

Once Clark disappeared from sight, she turned to Luisa, her expression curious. “What was that earlier, Luisa? You were a bit rude to Clark.”

but she couldn’t contain her anxiety

her face tightening. “Luisa, what are you talking about?”

“He’s dangerous, Thalassa. He’s not the good person we thought he was. I’m certain he was

Who is this coming from? Is it you or Alden, or worse yet,

“Thalassa, Alden didn’t—”

you were pushing me to give Clark a chance. And

only coming to see you because Kris put him up to it, maybe

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at the sting of her words. “So, you also think the only reason a

widened in surprise. “No, of course not, Luisa. I just don’t like the idea of him using you to

on an edge. “That’s because he’s concerned about you, and frankly, so am I. You and I haven’t been thinking critically about everything. On the day before our collection was destroyed, what really were the chances that Clark would’ve randomly suspected that something like that was going to happen when you and I hadn’t even thought about it? Unless he knew because he’d planned it just to

remember?”

“He didn’t accuse

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if he used that as a

her face. “Since when did you

hand over her hair, Luisa muttered, “I’m not defending him. I don’t care about him I care about you, Lassa, and I don’t want anything bad to

digesting Luisa’s words, Doubts flickered in her eyes, and finally, she asked,

head. “No.

because that’s what Kris told him and he believes it. But I don’t trust Kris Miller. Not a single

she fell silent when she saw Clark returning from

his phone before scanning their faces.

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