Third Person's POV
"Control yourself… You already have a lover, yet here you are trying to hit on another woman just after… sharing such intimate moments with her."
Her voice picked up pace and was laced with mock sternness as she narrowed her eyes at him though her eyes were filled with more fluster than fury.
It was a well-practiced mask and a high-handed expression of indignation she wielded like a shield to hide the truth of her flustered heart.
For a brief moment, Ethan looked genuinely shocked at her outburst but then he chuckled softly in a sound filled with amusement and delight.
He found her fluster so utterly disarming and so endearing that he could hardly resist teasing her further.
Shaking his head slowly, he donned a face of mock lamentation and tinged his voice with theatrical disappointment as he replied,
"Why blame me so harshly, Miss Aurae for something that exists only in your assumption?
