SERENA

“Are you sure you want to do this?”

I asked Valen after walking for a while in silence and he turned to me before looking on ahead.

“Why does it bother you?”

He asked me too, without giving me an answer

“It doesn’t bother me, I’m just trying to look out for you,”

I said with a sigh

“Looking out for me sounds more like you want to save me from your father,”

He tried to divert the conversation

“On the contrary, my father has good intentions towards you, so this has nothing to with him,”

“I see,”

He didn’t sound convinced

“Yeah, what I am trying to say...