"Xin Yi, let me see your leg."
Xin Yi looked up from where she had been sitting by the window, watching the settlement below.
It was the next day. Her seventh day in wolf territory.
Tomorrow—TOMORROW—Sha Chen had promised to take her to the Temple of Mán Shū.
She still hated him.
Mostly.
Maybe.
"Why do you want to see my leg?" she asked suspiciously.
Sha Chen stood in her doorway, arms crossed. He looked.….different this morning. Less Alpha-commanding. More concerned-maybe-worried.
"Because I need to check the mark," he said simply. "To make sure it is not causing you pain. Or burning. Or—"
"It is fine."
"Let me see it anyway."
"No."
"Xin Yi—"
"I said it is FINE, Sha Chen!"
They glared at each other.
[DING! (¬‿¬)]
[They are bickering again]
[Like an old married couple]
[How sweet! ☆]
"You are impossible," he muttered, walking into the room uninvited.
"And YOU are pushy!"
"I am trying to help!"
"By barging into my room without permission?!"
