After Becky finished her soup, she picked up the fork and began eating as if Rory and Denise weren’t there.
She didn’t even give them a passing glance. The thought of them would probably ruin her appetite.
Rory turned his head to Denise. “Let’s eat.”
Denise sensed the shift in Rory’s mood and chose not to make a scene. She then picked up the fork and began eating.
Becky loved the meal but Rory barely ate.
It was his first time eating dinner with Becky after they got a divorce. It was also his first time seeing her eat.
Becky swallowed and chewed her food slowly. Her every move was poised and filled with elegance. It was obvious that she was raised in a well-educated household.
Rory had never noticed that before because he never really paid attention to her table manners when they were still married.
It wasn’t because they had never eaten together, but whenever they did, he never looked at her.
Sometimes when Denise and Babette poked fun at Becky, he would look at her. But she would have dropped her fork and smiled at him as if she hadn’t heard what they said.
But apart from that, he never paid her much mind.
When Becky saw Rory staring at her, she ate another bowl of soup. She then took some wet tissues and wiped the oil stains from the corners of her mouth. When she noticed that he wasn’t eating a lot, she asked, “It seems that you’ve lost your appetite. Is it because of me?”
He didn’t know how to respond.
He didn’t want to tell her the truth that he was mulling over the times when they were still married.
The fact that he thought about the past wasn’t a good thing because that meant he still had feelings for her.
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