He also desperately wanted to ask her whether she and the little boy were mother and son, but witnessing her with Marcus Parker, these words just wouldn't come out, and he even found himself being unreasonably temperamental, extremely temperamental, as he vented his dissatisfaction.
He felt he shouldn't be such a person, yet in facing them, he couldn't seem to control his emotions.
Ellie Wilton returned to the kitchen, her mind oddly unsettled that day. As she made coffee, she didn't notice when it overflowed, or she would add sugar again after already doing so. By the time she tasted the coffee she had made, she found it tasted terrible.
For the coffee she prepared for customers, she would usually have a special set of utensils for tasting. Only if it passed her own standards would she let the shop assistant serve it to the customers.