Chapter 56

Jasmine POV

I sat at the table by the window and kept looking at the door. I'd almost drowned the glass of water I had requested from the waiter before Blake excused himself to use the restroom promising to be back in a jiffy.

It shouldn't have taken him more than five minutes to ten minutes at least to walk down to the rest room, make use of it, arrange himself, wash up his hands before stepping and walking right back at me.

But as I checked my clock, it was past ten minutes he left. Don't ask me how I knew but I'd been counting. I decided to wait a little bit longer but now it's fifteen minutes.

And I was still sitting alone. My fingers tapped the side of the glass.

I picked up my phone. My thumb hovered over Blake’s name. I was going to call him and ask where he was.

But something outside the glass caught my eye.

A mime stood in the middle of the street. His face was painted white. His lips were black. He wore a striped shirt and a hat. He moved his hands like he was trapped in a