But Lily was not appeased so easily, she asked " if you have let them have me you could have easily captured there leaders but now you have mere pawn in your possession, I think you lost your deal because of me". Zack rubbed her head " if I have let them capture you so easily then that would have been my biggest loss today, I can easily capture them later and this is a work of small fish there is still a big whale waiting for us and my gut is telling me we will find more traces in next training location".
Lily nodded her head. He walked by her side to ber dorm. Cool breeze of desert calmed her burning cheek. She after a long time felt light within her. There hands were touching as they walked side by side although during training they have touched each other countless times but this hand holding was so foreign to them. Finally she felt if she missed this chance this would never come again and already adrenaline was running in her body. So, she just grasped his hands. His steps paused for a second, her heart thundered but after he tightened his grip a smile came on her lips, she felt so happy.
She looked at him and asked " what's your favourite plant". He looked with furrowed brow because in his 30years he had never thought who is his favourite plant, and he didn't want her to think that he was not answering because he didn't care for her. He thought for a while and said " cactus because they get to witness the most beautiful moment of my life". Lily smiled happily " mine too, for the same reason". Zack went to the nearest cactus and plucked two pink flowers. He gave one to her and kept the other with him. She looked at him in question, he replied sheepishly " this is the proof that you yourself held my hand and you can't turn back on that this flower is the proof you can't deny".