Chapter 59

Chapter 59.

Adrian realized in an instant that something had changed. He realized it with sharp swiftness.

Elisa, who had been warming to a temperature that fit perfectly in his arms, he could feel stiffening like stone.

“Elisa……?”

Noticing that Elisa's condition had suddenly worsened, Adrian struggled to meet the eyes of the woman in his arms.

But before Adrian could even examine her, Elisa tore herself out of his embrace. Adrian was shoved away just as she had pushed him.

Adrian bit down hard on his lip.

Something had passed between them, just for a moment. There was no way Adrian alone had felt that chilling, dizzying sensation.

Elisa surely felt it too…….

For a brief moment, the same current that had flowed between them in their Academy days ran between them again: when he first took her hand, when he wrapped himself around her back as if embracing…