Before Adia could ask anything,Sebastian was already continuing, "My mother and my brothers are all here right now. Normally, it would only be us in this place. To top that off, everyone obviously likes you a lot. Due to that, I won't have a choice but to force myself to tamper down on my usual style and be as gentle as I possibly can tonight. Or else…" he let go of her chin.

"… the entire family will come at me mercilessly tomorrow. And we can't have that happening, can we?"

Adia blinked, speechless. Her mind immediately wondered how his family would even know if he was gentle or rough...