Distractions
All Alexei wanted to do was think about Risa now that Lyla had brought the subject up, but as he arrived back at the Mage Temple he knew that he couldn’t really afford to be thinking about things like that.

Not until everything was said and done and they were out from under the thumb of the Assassins Guild.

Not until the Demon Lord’s plot was halted.

He sighed and opened the big doors of the temple, slipped through them, and shut them behind him.

“You’re back, then,” Risa’s voice startled him, and he couldn’t help but jump.

“You waited for me at the door?” Alexei asked.

Risa was sat on one of the benches by the main door of the temple. Usually, they’d be used by outsiders who were waiting to be spoken to by the mages at the temple. Risa had been using it to wait for Alexei while reading a book.

“I wanted… to make sure, I guess, that you weren’t angry at me like Lyla was,” Risa said, unable to meet his eye.

He hadn’t noticed it before, but the way her hair played across
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