Corinne sipped her lemon water. “Should you take responsibility for yourself if your curiosity keeps you up at night? Don’t you think it’s weird for you to insist I take responsibility for that when I just met you today?”

Sophia shrugged her shoulders and opened her palms. “Okay, okay. I won’t ask more if you’re that reluctant to talk about the past. Eat up, then!”

Corinne’s cell phone then vibrated. She glanced at the screen and saw that Jason had sent another message. [I’m here.]

She placed the glass of lemon water down and grabbed her things. “I’m full. My friend is here, so I’ll excuse myself and leave you two to enjoy the rest of the meal. Goodbye.”

Jeremy remained expressionless. He pushed the phone in front of her and said, “Could you leave your contact information with me?”

Corinne looked at the QR code on his cell phone screen and said, “Don’t you have my email? You may contact me through email if you have anything to ask. I prefer that to other modes of communication.”

Corinne then turned around to leave.

retreating figure and said,

up

a white Bugatti, and the car drove away slowly. Jeremy saw it all as

the seat belt with her hands and let out

speed, but the way Corinne grabbed the seat belt

shook her

out and patted her shoulder to comfort

say you were going to

when you said that you were having a meal with

said, “I put on a very good performance, and he

done so well that no one would be able to spot any flaws, even at a close distance. Jason was not worried that Jeremy might notice something was off—he

a meal with your old flame after half a year

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