In Hot Seat

'What did you say?'

Nathalie couldn't believe the words that sent adrift to her ears, and she wasn't even deaf or aurally challenged or impaired, to begin with.

"Your face says it all, even if you trick your mind not to unveil your train of thoughts." 

A round of nightly breeze blew past them, fluttering the locks and fringes of their hair as well as their clothing in the air.

"Well, I'd hate to be the one to break it to you then but that knight saw your portrait on that smartphone, and the guy that looked like him as well."

'What?! This can't be!'

Right now, she embodied the state of shock and how much she had to take with Ashtra's advances, dropping them every single opportunity he took.

While her mind pondered that he was nowhere scandalous enough to do it in public, it still brought a swell of panic and had her on the edge of her seat, literally.