Chapter 121. The Mate Kidnapping (Part 2)

“Then, she asked me one of the most difficult questions that anyone has asked me in my whole life… 

'How can you know that?'

She was intently looking at me, and I opened my mouth trying to find a better answer than ‘because I work with them,’ and I could only imagine her asking me if I was saving her or taking her to them.

My mind went blank for a moment, but then, suddenly, I heard movement from the nearby bushes.

A tall, slim shadow appeared by my side between the bushes, and immediately said, 'You’ve been followed. Come with me before they see you.'

Alicia and I looked at her. 

'You’re the lady who just moved here, right? The one who now lives in the large house that's almost within the forest,' Alicia asked her.

'We’ll have time for introductions when you’re both in a safe place. Follow me, quickly.'

She moved with the lightness and ease of a shinobi, which made me wonder even more who the hell she was, but that is anothe