"Boyfriend."
As soon as Joshua said this word, Ivy gawked at him wide-eyed. She was rendered speechless while Joshua basked in this newly created relationship with ease. Ivy's face was fixed on his, trying to decipher why he said so. Sensing her gaze on him, Joshua smiled mysteriously. He too did not know why he had claimed himself to be her boyfriend. The idea did not seem bad. The word had just slipped out of his tongue as though it was the truth and he was going around proclaiming his relationship with Ivy to everybody and anybody he saw on the roads.
Just like Ivy, Tim too was flabbergasted, but for a whole different reason. If Ivy was Joshua's girlfriend, then things would get complicated. She had the biggest and strongest backup in the country. And if what they had assumed about Ivy being involved in collecting the evidence against them was true, then it would be almost impossible to get to her in the future.
