Dallie was torn when she saw the blue car starting to move slowly toward them. Eliana’s attention was now back to it, peering at the man behind the wheel.
“Dalisay, the foreigner’s staring at you,” her mom uttered the obvious. She looked serious, but Dallie knew her mother teased her.
“Just ignore him, Mom,” she replied in English. “He’ll just pass by, won’t he?” She deliberately spoke while still on the phone, so that he would hear it.
The blue car moved past them, and Dallie sighed in relief while her mother stared at her.
“I’ll wait for you at the mall,” Grégoire decided, agreeing with Dallie in the end.
Dallie hung up. She knew Grégoire was disappointed with what happened, but she thought it was a good reason to test his patience and how he would go about this scenario.
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