Chapter 87. Partners' Quarrel

Mariana

Dinner went more smoothly after I returned from the bathroom and I avoided Ethan's gaze for the most part, to avoid thinking about what had happened between us a few minutes ago.

Ethan was all the time trying to exchange a look with me, but I didn't feel ready to face him yet and spent all the time talking to Amelia and Luciana, which managed to make the next few hours in that restaurant more bearable.

And as if the tense atmosphere between Ethan and me wasn't enough, I still had my other problem, which was making me extremely uncomfortable with his insistent gaze, but I didn't intend to draw even more attention than I already had with Arthur's arrival and I held on until the end of the dinner that I considered to be the longest of my entire life.

What gave me the strength to resist was the certainty that, at some point, this martyrdom had to come to an end, which it did, to my utter relief, and when Ethan called me to leave, I was tr