C35 There's Still Fivteen Minutes

"Why do you always look unhappy when you meet me, Ara?"

Alenta gasped, she looked up from the drink she was stirring at random to her interlocutor, Rafael. Alenta cursed herself. Stupid! Why did she even think about Alden when she was with Rafael?

Because Alden's words last night that she decided to become her mistress made her brain feel like branches everywhere. She didn't understand at all