Chapter 57

When strolling past the ice cream parlor, Melanie appeared charming as batted her eyelashes at Yosef for a cone. Charmaine chimed in, claiming a sudden thirst that only ice cream could quench.

Yosef gave a nonchalant nod and told them to pick whatever they wanted.

He spotted a crunchy cone that he thought Zara might like and grabbed one. However, right as he turned to offer it to her, he caught her sipping water from her trusty thermos.

Silence hung in the air.

It was not that Zara had anything against ice cream. It was just that after a particularly brutal period, she suspected a miscarriage might have done a number on her.

She vowed to treat her body right—no cold stuff, no ice cream. She only drank warm tea to nurse herself back to health.

With a blank face, Yosef tossed the cone back into the freezer.

Melanie yelped as the drippy cone smeared her fingers. She wiped it off with a napkin, but the sticky residue lingered, making her grimace. "Hey, is there a bathroom around h