Candice: “…”
Jessica: “…”
Both women awkwardly watched as the man walked toward the dining room.
Completely ignoring the hard work they had put into this scene, this person had come in to disrupt things... Truly... he was terrible.
Neither of them acknowledged what he had said. One fiddled with her phone, while the other toyed with her hair, gazing out the floor-to-ceiling windows at the evening sunset.
“Candice, Miss Jessica, how about we eat first?”
Jim said with a warm smile.
Candice almost said, This dinner might be harder to swallow than nails.
Jessica stood up. “Alright, I didn’t eat much on the plane, so I’m starving now.”
She quickly walked toward the dining room.
A rational voice in Candice’s head said, Don’t go. Slip away downstairs and take back what you said. Let him
