Olcan could not make it on time to Elara, he was seconds late but thank God, by the time Torak's lips was to join with Elara's lips, it didn't join with hers but had landed on the hand she had used to cover her mouth out of reflex.
From the minute Torak moves to kiss her, Elara had discerned that there was something wrong with this kiss, she didn't know why but she felt if his lips were to touch hers, that a lot of things would irrevocably change. It wasn't that she could sense the poison in the potion he had drank but that the statement he had made about making everything change forever had heightened her weariness. Also she had immediately associated all her memory loss of Olcan to his incessant kisses in the past, her mind recalled how all her worries and queries would invariably die down everytime he kissed her, she could not wait to see what would happen this time around so she had immediately covered her mouth with her two palms to stop him from kissing her.
