Chapter 146

Breakfast, by the time they were having it, had eventually turned into brunch. Ivory had sat opposite Gadreel, with Emma beside her. At first, she had been rather quiet, focusing mostly on her meal and trying her best to ignore Gadreel’s lingering eyes on her, but the more he and Emma talked, the easier she started to feel around him. “You should have seen Ivory’s face,” Emma said at one point, recounting an event during their college examination days where some geeky male classmate of their had asked Ivory out. “Dude had snort running down his nose and when he walked up to her, he just-“ Emma had burst out laughing, the scene in her mind playing over and over again. However, she was the only one who happened to find it funny. Not only did Ivory hate the recollection of her past, especially in front of Gadreel, she was also embarrassed by her younger self. “Shut up, would you.” She had grumbled. “Hey, why are you so grumpy?” Emma asked, wiping the tears in her eyes. “It’s just a memory