"Finally finished?" Ariana casually remarked, a hint of disdain in her voice. "You're dragging this out like an old man."
"I'm enjoying life, alright?" I shot back, throwing the towel over my shoulder and slumping into the couch with a long sigh. "I didn't expect to get a taste of five-star treatment while being hunted down."
Ariana glanced at me briefly, her expression indifferent. "So, are you planning to treat this like a vacation?"
"With a girlfriend as beautiful as you, I guess I could call it that," I said, offering a teasing smile and raising an eyebrow.
Her hand paused for a moment, and then she looked at me with a note of warning in her voice. "Stop with the jokes. We still have things to discuss."
"Discuss?" I sat up straighter, feeling a bit uneasy. "What's going on? Why do you suddenly sound so threatening? What do you want to talk about?"
