Seeing the four giving him looks as if they had just seen a ghost, Kade smiled more broadly and raised both his eyebrows in confusion.
Arden found his tongue first. “How much did you…”
Before he could get himself to finish the question, Kade trained his innocent-looking eyes at him. “Hm?”
By his reaction, one could gather that Kade didn’t overhear anything. Sure, it could be that he was only pretending, but whether that was the case or not, the three gossips didn’t want to be around for the possible fallout.
“We…” the brunette began, hastily grabbing her companions by the arms. “We’ll let Arden help you, Kade. We need to be going now.”
“Oh, okay,” said Kade, stepping back and holding the door open for them. He added pleasantly as they scurried past him, “You guys take care.”
“Y-yeah…
