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Elysia too noticed how the people who were in the ballroom had started to pair off together, 'subtly' leaving the place.

She was confused, but she couldn't really bother about it right now.

With Alec's hand on her waist that felt like a bit of scorching sun, she couldn't stop herself from flushing from time to time when her mind drifted towards it.

She might have firmed up her determination, but she had no idea how she was going to catch this man in front of her.

What did the two ladies before say to her again?

At this moment, she really couldn't recall any of their advice at all. The hand on her made her brain short-circuit a little, but it was also accompanied by a feeling of sheer bliss and happiness that made her feel light and floaty.

Logically, she should be thinking about how to ascertain his feelings for her, but they were in the middle of a 'mission' now, even if it was a self-assigned mission.

Elysia had zero experience.

But she did know what she was feeling now.

What she felt for Alec was different from what she felt for anyone else, and it was different from the familial love she had for her dad.

While it might have seemed like a rather long time since she came out from the crack between realms with her father, it had actually only been a few months.

Not only that, most of that time had been spent in the sect while she acclimatized to living outside a place where there were no humans.

In that place, she only had her dad to base her interactions off, and there was hardly anything she could recall about when she had been younger.

As such, Elysia was truly clueless. She was a blank slate that had yet to be filled.

Thus, right now, when Elysia was still floundering in thinking about how she should go about making Alec hers, she decided to divert the topic first while she thought of a way.

"Where do you think everyone's going?" she asked as she looked at the various people leaving the ballroom.

The smile on Alec's face froze, and his lips twitched a little.

"Hm," he said instead, diverting his gaze from her.

Elysia frowned, wondering what he was doing. He usually answered any of her questions seriously, so she didn't understand why he wasn't doing so now.

Instead, he said a little helplessly, "Elysia…"

Did he really have to explain it to her? She wouldn't even let him off! Alec felt like he'd been hit on the head with a brick, causing his thought process to slow down.

This little girl really was too curious for her own good!

He suddenly remembered about the time that she had been so curious about Travis' matters of the night.

So, it wasn't that she had been curious, but that she had been totally ignorant to what was happening!

Suddenly, Alec was hit by such a strong sense of helplessness that he didn't know what to do.

Even if he wanted Elysia for himself, it really didn't seem right to make any moves on a person that had no idea about what was happening between adults?

Inwardly, Alec felt helpless. Why had that dragon dad of hers not taught her about this?!

Elysia peered up curiously at him, still having no idea what was causing Alec such apparent distress. She looked around the room, but there was really nothing that should be causing him those feelings.

She hesitated and almost wanted to pull away.

Suddenly, the hold on her waist tightened a little, pulling her closer to him.

She gasped softly as she took a step closer, her instincts kicking in.

Then, her face burned when she realized she had essentially thrown herself into Alec's embrace again.

She had done it earlier, but that had been in the heat of the moment when her determination had been at the peak.

Yet, after her hot head cooled down a little as she thought about her future actions, every little action she took that contained Alec made her overthink and her face burn.

When she realized that her 'little crush' perhaps wasn't so little at all, and was possibly love, she really couldn't help but blush at the littlest things.

When she acknowledged it, she really noticed all the things from Alec's slightly deeper breaths to the slightest twitches of his eyebrows when he was annoyed. The way his eyes sparkled when his smile reached his eyes.

Alec definitely wasn't as gentle as he portrayed himself to be, and Elysia should have been repelled by that considering her past history with people like this, but instead, she just found herself more attracted to him.

It was like she was helplessly drawn in despite herself, yet she couldn't help but want to fall deeper to taste the sweetness as well. She wanted all the sweetness to be real, yet she was scared that it wasn't at the end of the day.

Alec pulled her close and buried her face deeper into his chest, blocking her vision of anyone else. "Elysia, do you really not know what they're going to do?"

Elysia's heartbeat sped up so much she felt almost dizzy. Alec's breath sprayed on her ear, causing it to heat up, but when she registered his words, she was really clueless.

She peered back a little staring up at him with confusion.

Looking into her clueless eyes, Alec really felt helpless. Her apparent innocent was eating away at him in a way that was sorely testing his self-control.

His Adam's apple rolled despite himself. She was so close that he could smell her natural fragrance. Why was he himself testing himself this way? He didn't know.

It was like sweet torture being like this.

And right now, even with so many people leaving the place, there were still eyes on the two of them, so it wasn't like he could abruptly rip himself away as well.

Alec tried to dumb down his explanation to her, for some reason, feeling a little embarrassed. "They're doing things that only couples – err… They're doing things that usually only couples do together. Like that time in the inn with Travis, remember?"

Elysia's eyes widened, and it clicked. "Oh!"

There was a moment of silence as the music trickled between them, and Alec relaxed a little, thinking that it was over now. He would buy a few books that explained everything to her. This way, she didn't have to ask anyone any strange questions, right?

However, Elysia's next words shattered that hope. "But… not all of them are couples, right? And why are there only two of them leaving together?"

Alec was inwardly dying. Elysia, please! Could you just… let the matter go?!

"No." He suddenly felt regret at having to bring Elysia here – wait.

A thought suddenly occurred to him.

Did that mean that the only thing she knew about was the more extreme end of coupling… a threesome?

Did she think that this activity required three people in total, and not only two!?

Alec felt like his brain was breaking down, and he tried not to show it on his face. "Elysia, usually it's only two people who get together…" If his voice was a little strangled, that was your own imagination.

"Oh." Elysia blinked. "Ohhhh."

Alec inwardly prayed that she would just drop it.

The two of them made another round around the ballroom, and both of them were thinking about different things.

Alec was just praying that Elysia wouldn't ask any other awkward questions, while Elysia, on the other hand…

She was still thinking about how to make Alec 'hers'.

But the thing was, she really didn't have any methods at her disposal at all!

Then… the only thing she could do at this moment was… power through?

Making up her mind, Elysia suddenly looked up, and she caught sight of how Alec was still staring at her face.

"Alec!" she said, "I want to tell you something."

"?" Alec inwardly panicked. It wasn't something else along those lines, was it?

Elysia took a deep breath. She was going to go for it.

"I like you!"

At the same moment, the lights in the ballroom all shattered at the same time, causing chaos in the darkness.

Chapter end

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