Elene tried to catch her breath, her whole body aching so much she could barely say a word, but the shock from seeing the face of her saviour here in this place gave her the unexpected rush of adrenaline to help roll off him.
“Usually, girls take me to dinner first,” Ivar said with that devilish smirk of his she had known since childhood.
“Sorry,” Elene finally muttered, not knowing how to react. Ivar wasn’t supposed to be here. He was travelling the world outside the Moonrise continent and sending her brother Kai useful information he acquired in the process. He couldn’t be in the South.
Ivar’s lips curled into a playful smirk, his ash blonde hair damp from the shower and falling onto his forehead in careless locks. “Well, this is quite the unexpected visit,” he teased, his voice a mel
