*Sasha*
“Come on, now. You must know I don’t usually come and recruit young interns personally,” Stone Hamline said, leaning in the doorframe of Lucas’s house.
I was glad Lucas was gone, for Stone’s sake. “I really would like to work for you,” I replied honestly. It would be a wonderful opportunity, after all. “But I have to go visit my mother in the Winter Forest.”
“The Light Realm?” Stone’s eyebrows nearly hit his hairline. “That’s quite a journey. Is she sick?”
“Well….” I pushed my hair behind my ear. “No….”
Stone clucked his tongue. “Such a shame. I hope you’re not leaving us because that Lucas Black has you all twisted up. Honestly, not every Royal Engineer is like him.”
I frowned at Stone. “No, I would never leave because of Lucas.”
“Again with the Lucas.” Stone grinned at me.
I shifted from foot to foot, flustered by his attention. “Sorry. Mr. Black.”
