What can cause treason (2)

At the words «mating season», Neven pricked his ears and realised why that man would wag around his wife.

She either needed to learn how to discern people with evil intentions - she urgently needed that - or she was more playful than he thought. But, given how she was relaxedly sipping her tea and beaming, it didn't look like she was naughty. She was truly relieved that it wasn't her fault if she tried assaulting Neven.

«I've been affected by it,» Vera said.

«Yeah? How so?» he hummed. What did she do to be affected?

«Since I attract the energy around me, it ends up like this,» she explained. Only then, she realised that Neven wasn't supposed to know about her nature.

Or, rather, that she hadn't told him. They were pretending not to know anything about each other while they actually did.