Chapter 31. Back Home

“I was told you won’t be able to come with us, but here you are.”

“Yeah,” I just said as I walked towards Nathan who was waiting for me beside his car.

“What happened? What changed?”

I put my bags behind the truck and faced him. “There was just… a little problem. But we’ve dealt with it.”

Nathan narrowed his eyes at me, sensing how I wasn’t telling the entire truth. I looked away from him and walked towards the door. I saw some other trainees already inside as they waited for the others to come.

“Beta Sebastian personally told me you’d be coming.” Nathan followed behind me. I sat on the empty side of the truck and faced him, still standing outside of the car. “Was it important? Is this something I should be concerned about? Why would the second-in-command relay the message to me personally? He said it was an abrupt decision from the king.”

I sighed heavily, remembering how things turned out last night.

If we didn’t need to breathe, that kiss