Benjamin Shaw's sudden departure plunged the mood in the private room into silence, with the three people holding their wine glasses, momentarily losing the desire to drink.
"You probably already know that Easton Holmes and Alice Turner have divorced, right?" Ryan Taylor broke the silence first, placing his wine glass on the table. He turned sideways to look at Easton Holmes, who was sitting beside him.
Easton Holmes nodded while looking at him: "I heard from my wife that the two of them just divorced this morning."
Is Benjamin so downcast because of the divorce?
"Have you noticed that Benjamin seems very unhappy? Could it be that he has fallen for Alice..." Ryan Taylor stopped mid-sentence, suddenly realizing that someone closely related to Alice Turner was sitting nearby, and he didn't finish his thought, not wanting to upset that person again.
