The man was silently drying her hair, his warm face emotionless, no different from usual.
She squeezed out a pale smile, hoping to break the strange silence in the living room.
Gabriel's hands paused. He lowered the curtains and stared at her pale face. Her lips had already turned purple from the cold. "Where did you go after work?"
"I was just walking around," said she in a hoarse voice.
He didn't see it earlier but now that she was right in front of him, he could see how red her eyes were.
When he kept staring at her, Serenity looked away. "I thought that it would be fine if I came back early. I just wanted to go for a walk. Who knew that it would rain?"
Gabriel did not ask any further and threw the towel on the sofa before pulling her upstairs.
Her hands were very cold as if they had been chilled in an ice cellar. His warm palm wrapped around hers and she felt as if it was all she needed to expel her coldness.
