Chapter Seventy Five

He was gorgeous and she felt herself responding to him but then a picture of Caleb came into her mind and pain shot through her. Felix wasn’t Caleb and her heart told her she was betraying the only man she had ever loved, Felix felt her stiffen and she would not meet his eyes. Then she pulled away from him entirely,

‘Entschuldigung, ich muss die Damentoilette benutzen.’ [Excuse me I need to use the ladies room.]

Before he could stop her she had disappeared into the crowd and he went reluctantly back to his friends,

‘Was um alles in der Welt hast du zu ihr gesagt, in der einen Minute lachte sie mit dir, in der nächsten sah es so aus, als ob ihre Welt zusammenbrach und sie so schnell davonrannte?’ [What on earth did you say to her, one minute she was laughing with you the next it looked like her world collapsed and she ran off so quickly?]

Bastian asked his friend who looked totally perplexed,

‘Ich weiß es wirklich nicht, wir haben uns super verstanden und dann ist sie plötzlich versch