Chapter 36

“I take it back. I take back everything I said earlier!” Lana said firmly as she stared hard at River’s back. He walked ahead at a swift pace and Lana had to particularly jog to keep up with him.

“It’s a bit too late for that now.” He called back to her nonchalantly.

Lana was wrecking her brain to come up with a solution to this mess of a situation. After finding out that River only agreed to join her and Zane on the treasure hunt just to be a nuisance to her, she decided to take back her invitation no matter how rude that might be. But she never had the chance when the two of them were bombarded by people buying tickets. Now, it was lunch time and she was trying her best to stop River as he made his way to the haunted house to meet up with Zane.

“River! I’ll do anything,” Lana called out desperately, wanting to do anything and everything to make him reconsider. River suddenly stopped in front of her and turned to look at her.

“Anything?” he asked, feeling th