章節 338: Old friend

"Magnus, what a surprise."

Lucien couldn't say what Magnus was thinking at that moment. The fire mage had always been a very difficult person to read.

"Luci."

"A whole week has passed since your arrival to Elysium. Why didn't you come home?" Lucien's cold gaze pinned Magnus in place as though as he was a criminal being interrogated.

"I doubted I would be welcomed back."

"Bullshit." How could they not welcome him? His place in their hearts and their home had always remained a Magnus shaped hole waiting for him to fill someday. "What's the truth, Magnus? And who is the woman you've been seen around with?"

"Mina? She's a friend," Magnus responded, his confusion evident on his face. He hadn't made any mental preparations for meeting a grown-up Luci and it was obvious in the way he gaped at the teen. 

"Is that what they call their girlfriends these days, Mu-Mu?" Lucien smirked as he asked the anti mage who was silently working.