Selma Payne's POV:
I gently knocked on the door, and Aldrich's voice came from behind. "Please let me be alone for a while. Thank you."
"It's me, Aldrich," I said.
He was silent for a few seconds before he opened the door.
"Hello, I heard you canceled today's training, so I came to ask what happened." I pretended to be calm, but my evasive gaze and unnecessary actions had already completely betrayed me.
"You're going on a mission. Why are you still at home? Are you only leaving at night?"
I tried to find a topic to talk about, but when I realized what I had said, I wanted to slap myself.
"I don't mean anything else, it's just that I don't know what I'm talking about, so I'm so embarrassed now. Don't you want to invite me in? It's awkward to be standing at the door like this."
I blurted out a bunch of words like a machine gun. Aldrich silently nodded and gestured for me to enter the room.
