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~~~Jared's Point of view~~~

The mix of doubt, frustration and panic at the edge of Cassie's voice could be easily heard.

As a matter of fact, it was all the more impossible not to detect it, especially when the other party did not put an effort to mask her emotion, in the first place.

A collection of emotion which if I must say, was a perfect ingredient for de stabilizing this synergy that I had been painstakingly trying to build between us.

I wanted so badly to make this partnership worked. But how am I supposed to do that if she has little to no trust in me.

"It was no recipe of any brownies, okay? "

I snapped  back at her then  with a grin pasted on my lips I pointed out to her, 

"Romans never even had one at my time. Well, I guess they had some kind of chocolate cake or something similar so I-----."