He stood there for a while, merely staring at her with disbelief. He was clearly caught off guard. Erilyn wished she could take her words back, but they were out by the moment she realized what she'd said.
Ren's shoulders fell as he slowly loosed a breath. "Can we have this talk while we're walking?"
"All right," she said. She figured standing around doing nothing, and not knowing what to do with their hands would make this even more awkward.
Erilyn wasn't stupid. She knew for a fact that she was sounding more and more desperate every time she brought this up, every time she spoke of how she felt about him. But she was impulsive, being reckless was in her blood. It was as if it was her second nature to choose what she wanted over anything else, which was contradictory with how passionate she was of her duties and responsibilities as the Rusells heiress.
