Lucius took a deep breath, his jaw tightening as he forced himself to stay calm.
'What in the cringe?' he thought. The situation was surreal.
He'd come here for a mana heart, not for melodrama, and yet here was Lily shouting like this was some second-rate romance drama.
He could swear he had been perfectly quiet, perfectly on his own — so how did this even happen?
"What?" Lucius asked flatly, his voice dry with disbelief.
Lily's arms folded even tighter across her chest, her chin tilting up with triumph.
Her silver hair glimmered in the sunlight, but her expression was so self-satisfied it made him want to gouge out his own eyes.
"I knew it!" she declared, cheeks puffing slightly. "You came to my place to beg for our engagement back, but I—"
She didn't get to finish.
Lucius lifted his hand lazily and flicked a finger to the right.
