The call rang for a while before it was picked up.
“Hm?” Mei answered. For once, she didn’t sound like her usual distracted self.
“Are you free to talk?” Rhys asked.
“Yup! I was just about to head out. What’s up?”
Rhys said straightforwardly, “Ren knows our relationship is fake.” After saying that, he waited for a reaction from the other side, but none came. He had to ask her upfront, “It was you who told him, right?”
This time, Mei was quick to answer. “Nope. Not me.”
Rhys’ eyebrows knotted in a frown. “If not you, then who the hell did? How did he know?”
“Beats me~” Mei replied airily. “We’ll have to leave that up to our imaginations, I guess~”
“Mei,” Rhys said in a short tone. “I’m being serious.”
“…All right. Then here’s a serious answer—why don’t you ask Ren yourself? That c
