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Chapter 8
The next day, everybody at San’s restaurant was acting weird. Sanvika was working like crazy. She appeared extra cheerful and talking to the customers more. But Tariq and Astrid could see that the smiles did not reach her eyes.
But at the same time, Tariq and Astrid were themselves being so strange and was not looking into each other’s eyes.
Shardul came in and he watched Sanvika for a while and he could sense something is wrong. But he knew better than to go directly talk to her.
“What happened?” Shardul slid into the bar counter to speak to Tariq.
“Huh? What? Nothing… Nothing happened?” Said Tariq who was so distracted himself.
“Clearly something happened? She is so happy.”
“Huh? She is…” He turned around to look at Astrid who was making pasta. “I don’t think so.” Astrid was clearly in a bad mood since the morning.
“I was talking about
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