With irregular, shaky breaths, Rose spread her arms to shield the man as much as she could from Richard’s attack, but… nothing happened after many seconds passed.
Not a single grunt or screech filled the air.
Confused, Rose opened her eyes and met the man’s gaze.
“Uh…” Just looking at him and being close to him made her entire body react.
“Uhm…” She cleared her throat and looked away.
Then she noticed that they were no longer in that fine house.
Richard and the man named Symon were nowhere to be seen, either.
“Huh…”
Her frown deepened at the sight of the ocean, whose crashing waves made sounds to relax anyone who cared to listen to it.
“Where are we?”
“Unmistakably,” he mumbled, his eyes refusing to stop watching her no matter how much she tried to evade his, “you are my mat
