"...what?" Her mind short-circuited. She felt like someone pulled the socket of her brain, and she wasn't suddenly responding and was unable to think clearly. She didn't know if it was her brain or her ears that she heard it wrong. There should at least be one wrong because there was no way that she heard it right. She stared at Evander with wide eyes. She didn't know how to react. He just said those without even a bit of hesitation. She couldn't tell if they were still in a light atmosphere like earlier, where they were teasing each other, or if he was back to being serious. Like always, Evander was hard to read. Evander put down the glass of wine that he once again downed to the bottom. Then he looked back at her. His hooded eyes stared back at her like he wanted to say a lot of thing

