"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but just make sure I don't find out that the person you were talking about is Mallia Mamet!"
It was clearly a joke, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be true. The worst outcome was that it was indeed Mallia Mamet.
George Flack hesitated whether he should tell Aria Grant or not that he was helping Mallia. If he told her the truth, he felt like he couldn't explain why he had to do what he did back in the United Kingdom.
So George Flack sat down next to Aria Grant, tightly holding her hand and pressing it against his forehead.
"I'm sorry, I really don't know how to explain this to you. The person who asked for my help yesterday was Mallia Mamet. She said it was urgent, so I thought maybe she was in trouble and needed my help. I realized later that something was off. If I had told you, you would have definitely been angry, so I felt uneasy all night."
