Of all things, Mei had chosen that same coffee shop where the “incident” had happened as their meeting place.
Ren had let Kade talk out the arrangements with her, and so he didn’t have the chance to protest. But then again, he also owed that place and its staff for taking care of him, not to mention the business they must have lost because of what had happened.
So that same day, after his last class in the afternoon had ended, Ren went back with a lightheaded, almost disconnected feeling to that coffee shop.
Kade had volunteered to go with him, but Ren had turned down the offer.
“You made sure she’d also go alone anyway, right?” he had said, hiding how shaken he was over whether or not he would find only her once he got there.
“Uh, yeah?” Kade had answered. “Kinda weird that you’d ask
