"You're shivering already," Nikolai noted with a frown. "Winter is coming. You shouldn't stay in the water too long given how weak your body is."
"I'm not that weak like they all to say," she said in a confident tone, defending herself from the rumors that had long circulated.
"Maybe in different aspects, but not with your physical body," he noted.
She couldn't help but lift an eyebrow at him.
"I can already feel and hear your heart's weakening rhythm. It's getting rather… erratic." he teased.
His words make Mineah gulp despite her dry throat. Right… A powerful vampire like him would obviously have exceptionally heightened senses, meaning he could hear as her heart quickened when she saw him.
"Can you blame me? I'm a maiden who just had her first bath with a man," she murmured with a pout. She wouldn't let him get to her that easily. "My heart behaving as you described is to be expected. It's normal."
