Quickly looking him over, Alita got rid of the slight unease she had been feeling ever since she heard the commotion going on outside between him and Asher.
Without saying a word to him, she walked away from the door, in the direction of the stairway. Her expression was blank, not giving anything she was feeling or may be thinking away.
Fred followed her immediately, only leaving a comfortable distance between them. When she came out of the room, he had thought she would say something about what had happened inside. But her act of walking away disappointed him.
It couldn't be him. He couldn't be the one at fault. She did this on purpose, but the problem was that he couldn't even fathom her reason.
Just before she got to the stairs, she abruptly stopped walking and turned around dramatically, forcing him to stop moving instantly.
