Blind Date Turned Proposal

Why do you wear a mask Mark asked a seemingly unrelated question

Josie’s heart trembled nervously. I have a cold and don’t want to spread it to anyone

Mark looked away and put down the wine glass. Since you have a cold, you should go out now. You don’t have to come back anymore.

Josse tried to say something but stopped herself. She had more things to say but realized on second thought that she had talked long enough. Thus, she nodded and left the room.

She breathed in the fresh air and calmed down. When she looked up, she was surprised to see Arnold. He had been standing outside all this while.

“What’s wrong?”

“Mark discovered me.”

Arnold nodded and took off her mask. “Let’s leave here first.”

Josie was still covered in cold sweat. She waited until they entered the elevator, asking. “Why didn’t you leave?”

“I was worried that they might kill you.” He was not joking. These people did terrible things as you Josie recalled Mark’s expression. Tm afraid some of my words have gotten to them. Arnold

did was damaging to

looked at Josie’s reflection in the elevator mirror. “It’s not your first time apologizing to me

but in Dexter’s track record through the years. Those

nice in these clothes. There’s something appealing about uniforms

door

at her, instinctively prompting her to push him away. “Tm taking

the warm water. She recalled what Amold seld and grew flustered as she thought about it. She even noticed how warm het cheeks

he willing to

smacked her face. “Josie, what

the room when she walked out of the bathroom with a towel around her body. He sat

are you still here?”

continued to focus on the game Josie watched him play. Her hair

hair stands were damp and felt ticklish

it wrong for me to enter my

nothing to say.

towel from her hand and pulled open a nearby drawer without a word.

used it to blow dry

warm air