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When I realized I had no other option, I gathered the glasses and went back into the crowded dining room

"Have you decided what you’d like yet?" I asked in s her toxic tone, and I felt"I’d like to eat somewhere else I don’t knoe can’t eat somewhere less" She looked up at aze, and our eyes locked momentarily "Shabby"

My cheeks burned, and I tried to tell ht thing to do It was respectful And it was the law She wasn’t speaking to

But I did

My hands were shaking as I set the glasses on the table Water sloshed over the sides, splashing the candle’s fla it sizzle and then sputter out

Sydney squealed theatrically and julass of water in her face She glared at lanced down, I could see tiny water droplets on her snohite blouse

"Idiot!" she shrieked, and this time I understood perfectly Everyone did "She looked ather statement not to me but about me in a voice so loud that the entire restaurant could hear her now "Did you see that? She was looking right atTer eyes--tried to calue of Terhter "Sydney, calm down--"

"Don’t tell me to cal needs to be done She broke the law I can’t believe you’re not outraged I can’t believe you’re not already calling for a hanging" She dabbed frantically at the nearly invisible splash ! Tell them that this--this iaze dohile I pretended not to listen to things she was saying about me, uage

Panic paralyzed me, and my throat squeezed shut I dared a quick look aroundback atat her table atching aze locked with that of the thirdnotice her His eyes were dark and intense, focused solely on rih the kitchen doors to see what all the commotion was about I turnedthat I’d made a mistake

A deadly one

"I’m sorry," I said aloud, to no one in particular

"What happened out there?" Brook asked, rushing to htly that the blood was cut off fro about? You didn’t look, did you?"