[HAWI]
"I didn't mean to scare them. I thought they were alone," Nik said and Malika stared at him like he needed to explain more.
He looked like he wanted to make a run for it and at the same time, he was worried she would drag him down to the pits of hell. Now that he was apologizing, maybe he could apologize for the reason he had trashed the elderly man's hop as well, right?
Maybe that would buy him favor with Malika, no? Well, it was going to be a little hard given the circumstances, but then he needed this, for the sake of his sanity.
"Who?" Malika asked, staring at Nik who was still shaking, he looked like a deer caught in headlights and he looked so terrible that Malika almost felt bad for him. She knew he was tired from all the work and cleaning he had done.
But then it had been his fault that he had fucked things up.
