Chapter Sixty One
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“What took you so long?” Keith questioned as he watched Camila return to stand at the spit beside him.

Camila offered him a smile of innocence, reaching for the glass of wine between Keith's fingers, and immediately drowned the contents.

Keith eyed her with keen interest with a brow raised, “Someone's thirsty,” he teased watching her set down the cup.

Camila nodded, “The trip to the ladies’ room was quiet_,” she trailed off and tapped her chin as if searching for the right word, “Eventful.”

The lightness on Keith's face vanished quickly, replaced with a look of worry, “What happened? Did you run into you know who?”

The corners of Camila's lips pulled upwards, “No, I did not run into you know who, Keith. It was eventful because I had a bit of a problem searching for the ladies’ room,” the lie rolled off Camila's tongue easily. Of course, she would not mind telling Keith about the little incident in the bathroom but she would not want him to get more worried than he already was and he
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    Frank resisted the urge to smile as he watched Sheila approaching, it was time now and although he had high hopes for his girlfriend he couldn't still help but worry about this supposed perfect plan of hers, what if it went wrong? And Thompson was not a fool and maybe the plan would not be able to push through if Keith did not go with Sheila, and although Sheila had reassured him that Keith would not turn her down he was not so sure, Keith was not going to let himself get fooled again so easily, especially with what happened before. He moved his eyes to the lady standing beside Keith, the lady who had supposedly made his girlfriend so angry she wanted her dead. He flashed a smile, “But I'm certain you won't deny me the honor of introducing me to your beautiful date.”Frank watched as the lady scrunched her with no sign of surprise that the conversation was getting shifted to her but her face was immediately relieved into a composed smile, she took a step forward and held out a hand t

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