Unprotected hand-holding!

When Eve, still angry, irked and generally sour, left for the laboratories the next morning, Victor accompanied her. It was all according to their plan—Victor needed to be seen speaking with the Directors, and that included Raynolds, who was scheduled to be in his Research office today. There was nothing romantic in this part, only coincidence of people waking up and preparing for leaving at the same time.

And then Victor just needed to say them, these five cursed words, and ruin it all.

"Let me hold your hand, Eve."

It made Eve stop in the middle of the narrow alleyway their apartment building stood on. Originally, Radiant Technologies complex the Radiant Base was built upon was more spacious, but it wasn't as densely populated then as it was now. New buildings were simple and lacked paint, but they gave thousands of people a roof over their heads.