Chapter 30: Steady

"Elliot..."

She called in a soft voice as he slowly meets her golden eyes,

"I like you."

Those words came out so smoothly that he failed to react nor asked for confirmations. And the way she calls his name, his memory came back to him five years ago.

She's indeed that huntress who helped him back then. But more than that, what she said next made him frozen and speechless.

"I... have fallen in love with you."

It was a sincere confession, he can tell. It was the first time he saw a glimmer in her eyes as he saw his reflection on them. And from all the countless confessions he received from other girls, this is the first time he felt so dazed.

He couldn't say a word to turn her down. All of those other confessions were unexpected but this one's got him off-guard.

And like his lips have been zipped on his own, all he could do for now is to blink a few times. Seems like the huntress has read his mind.