Chapter 10: Truth Seekers (3)
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Upon returning back to the table Samuel called out to me as if he noticed something had happened. “That looked like a really intense conversation you had back there, is everything-” I interrupted him. “Let’s just leave.”
“Wait, Luell, stay! Did Mark say something to you?” Jasmine pretty much jumped up from her seat to talk to me. Her pleading look as she asked me to stay… reminded me of my late brother…
“I just wanted this to be a special dinner for the two of us so I asked her to leave.” Mark said while pulling her aside. Of course it was a lie.
“Luell.” Samuel focused my attention on him soley.
“What?” I asked without looking away.
“This isn’t like you.” He said in a low whisper.
I pulled him aside, I couldn’t tell what Jasmine and Mark talked a
