Chapter 155. Willing to Learn

For a moment, Calla just stayed quiet. Her mind went strangely blank, like it had stalled and forgotten how to move forward.

An old memory flashed through her mind of when she was little. She had an imaginary friend named Tim. Her parents used to tell her he wasn’t real, but she had believed he was.

Until one day he told her himself that he only existed in her head. Then he disappeared. She'd wondered why he sounded so real.

The memory made her chest tighten. Because this moment with Rico suddenly felt the same way.

Her jaw stayed slightly open as she stared at him. Did he really say that? Did Rico actually confess his feelings to her? For a second, Calla wondered if she had heard him wrong… or if she was hearing things again.

She blinked slowly, trying to make sense of it. “Rico…” she said at last,