"Sir, we will be arriving in 5 hours," Merlin informed the blonde who was staring at his phone with a frown.
On it was the message he had sent to Elara which hadn't been read. How odd! Around this time, she should have seen it.
After all, she suddenly formed the strange habit of contacting him only at midnight. And when he probed too hard, she ended up promising to tell him everything later.
Though he already had a couple of guesses.
"Hah…," he sighed.
To think some random man would suddenly become a nuisance just a few days away from his Ela. Maybe he'd have to play a little dirty this time.
***
"I like you," John muttered softly under the drizzling light. Lara said nothing and just as he was about to apologize, she laughed.
"First time?" her teasing smile and eyes should have been annoying yet somehow they lulled him to a frantic mess.
"I, I…"
"I'm ace, aroace to be precise."
