16.

POPPY:

Sebastian was giving me the I-told-you-so look while I hung my head low in embarrassment. It was good that they did not know anything about me or anything else…

"Order now," he insisted again.

Why is he making everything difficult again? I was seriously tempted to take his offer. My intestines were already wrestling inside my stomach.

"I'm not hungry. I will wait for you two."

Sebastian sliced the steak using his knife and picked one slice using the fork.

I licked my lips. I had only eaten steak once when Nolan brought me to a restaurant. He insisted that he would pay for everything. That was his treat so I ordered the food I was dying to eat since I was in college. Steak. But it was only once and never happened again.

I did not want to believe that it was because I lacked enough money. He already earned quite a hefty sum as an engineer in a certain company. But then…when we got married, our relationship became sour as if he was getting cold feet.

I tried to disregard it thi