Long chapter
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"You are joking, right?" Zaria waited to him to burst into laughter for successfully pranking her. When his expression didn't change in the slightest, she realized that he was serious.
"Why would you think yourself capable of hurting the woman you care the most about? You would even die in her stead if anything were to threaten her life!"
Now that she said it out aloud, he felt a little silly for believing the possibility. His lips moved but he did not say a word. Zaria was easy to trust and talk to but he wasn't willing to tell her more than he already had. He brushed her off. "I just know."
"Fine." She stood up, grabbing their empty cups to throw in the trash bin at the side of the street.
