Chapter 17 The Heated Arguments

• But when they'd finished eating and she was enjoying the tea she had asked for instead of the coffee he was drinking, he said without preamble, "Now, tell me why you left your first job".
• At first Miya didn't,' ___couldn't ___ believe she'd heard what he had said. "What?" she blankly, fighting for control.
• He was watching her with her with relentless eyes behind those astonishing lashes. '' After you left for school, you were given an office job by an elderly solicitor. However, you left in a hurry and under a cloud.''