Twenty Questions

"Let's play twenty questions." Emilia frowned at the suggestion and turned to look at Leone in question. The day after tomorrow she was set to return to the capital while he and his team would venture deeper into the wild territory for helping in the restoration of wildlife and natural resources. Lionel had kept his promise about making help available in the form of resources with minimal monetary compensations and also his promise to keep things platonic. 

But as Emilia stared at the way he interacted with others, she could not help but think of what he had said. He was attracted to her. It might make her vain but she could not stop thinking about it. She had offered herself to the man she loved, hoping that he would accept her and he had turned her down. The man she was engaged to wanted her to submit to him and so he tried to force himself on her, making her hate him even more than she already did.