Svetlana put her fork down and stared hard at her plate, which was still mostly full of food. She didn't want to hurt Azrael's feelings and she also had been taught that her own emotions were no one else's business and she should keep them to herself.
Instead of causing a scene in front of him, she rose from the table and fled to her room, barely able to keep from crying until she was safely inside. It wasn't that she wanted to marry the man she barely knew! She had to. If the people responsible for placing her with him checked in and found out they weren't married, she would have failed and they might kill her.