"You don't say, I thought I disgusted you that's why you acted the way you did," he was baffled and his heart swelled.
"No, you didn't. I acted that way because I didn't want to feel what you evoked inside me," she replied lowering her gaze and staring into her lap.
"Seems like your bond chose me from the very first moment we met," he raised her face with his index finger so she would fall into those sultry eyes of his. None of them could peel their eyes off each other.
The car had stopped moving, announcing they had arrived. "Mask," he finally whispered to her tracing her beautiful face with his knuckles, breaking the trance between them and she was finally able to look away from him.
Extracting the mask from her clutch she placed it on her face and turned her back to him and requested:
"Xiran, tie it," he took the thin ribbons and knotted them below her neck, and adjusted her mask.