章 33: Chapter 33: Curious Bond

Adeline’s POV

“Are you avoiding me?”

It took a minute for me to snap out of my daydreaming. It was late afternoon and I was already feeling tired and drained. I had one more class to finish before I could go back to our apartment and get some sleep.

In the meantime, I was staring at the page in my school book. My eyes were roaming over the words on the pages in front of me but not comprehending them one bit. I just barely registered the words as they came from above me. My eyes were distracted from the page of my book by a pair of men’s shoes stepping into my periphery.

“Hello, Earth to Adeline?”

I stopped reading as I recognized it was Mark’s voice. When I looked up from the piece of grass I had been sitting on with my books to see the man standing in front of me, I realized I had been so absorbed in trying to focus on my work that I hadn’t heard him come up to me.