With a giggle, Shantala replied, "What's with that question? Of course, I am not because I am actually pretty fine and all. Anyway, what's up? Why are you suddenly asking that? It is actually giving me the chills if you suddenly treat me so kindly."
"Don't you feel a bit shocked about what happened a while back?" Hyperion chose not to comment on the rest of her statement.
Shantala, then, came to realize that he was probably questioning her not out of worry but to make her confess that she was just no stripper or waitress at all. She was quiet for a while as she stared straight at the road.
After a few minutes, she decided to drop her lies.
"I am more than shocked, of course," she said. "But I have to hide it because if Klauss sees me all scared and all, he would surely feel more power
