Chapter 288. Routine

CYNTHIA's P O V

‘‘I… I don’t know yet. I’m going to choose when we get to the bar…’’ I remarked with a naive grin on my face.

He finally forced his eyes to look away from my body, even though it appeared that he was only looking at me for a maximum of two seconds, and he looked back up. ‘‘I'm not going there, but if you need me to be there with you, I'll go with you…’’

‘‘Oh… Where are you going?’’

He pointed in the direction of the north and stated, ‘‘Mr. Benigni claimed that there's a little cave at approximately five-hundred meters away from here and I wanted to check on it...’’ then he turned to look back at me. ‘‘Do you want to come with me?’’

I could barely conceal my enthusiasm. ‘‘Of course. But I don’t even have my flip flops on…’’ I pointed out the obvious while taking a quick look at my bare feet.

He had a good laugh at my helplessness before putting his hand on the small of my back and guiding me in the right way. Yet, he only maintained