Anna looked completely confused: "..."
After a moment, she lifted her head and called out tentatively, "John?"
"..."
Julian's smile stiffened a little.
"Wait... maybe it's Bob?"
This time, his face turned entirely dark, not even a trace of a smile left.
Anna, catching on a beat late, felt like the temperature in the room just dropped, and when she saw Julian's face, she instinctively shrank her neck a bit.
In a small voice, she murmured, "Hey, I'm kidding, don't be mad."
Yeah, she totally screwed up this time. Already thinking of her Plan B, Anna started glancing to the side, silently calculating her chances of slipping out of his arms and escaping before he could catch her.
Too bad — that chance was basically zero.
Julian, as if reading her thoughts, crushe
