However, Bronya knew this was not the time to laugh at Kiana. She hurriedly pretended she had only just noticed Gwen and waved in greeting:
"Hmm? Gwen, you're here?"
Times had changed. Bronya, once merely a captive Gwen had casually brought back from Changkong City, could now interact with him like an ordinary friend.
"Yeah. There's a restless little kitten here, after all. Of course I had to come check on her..."
Gwen did not expose Bronya's malicious intent in winking at him just now. As though nothing had happened, he greeted her casually.
As he spoke, Gwen stepped forward and wrapped an arm around the slender waist of that restless little white cat.
Facing Gwen's actions, Kiana's little face already flushed crimson. Yet she did not dare turn around to meet his gaze, seemingly drained of all strength as she let him hold her in his arms.
Sitting down on the bed with the little white cat in his arms, Gwen glanced at the monitor still displaying the results screen and smiled.
"Hmm?
Did someone lose and decide to welch on the bet?"
As he spoke, the fingers resting on Kiana's stomach lightly tickled her flat abdomen through her thin clothes.
"Mm... I didn't!"
Her body jolted at Gwen's movements. Sensing his ill intentions from that familiar gesture, Kiana pressed hard on his hand with both of hers and loudly refuted his "slander."
"Hmm? Really?"
Gwen remained unmoved and turned his gaze toward Bronya, who was enjoying the show from the side.
"Bronya, what do you think?"
"Bronya is watching while standing."
Knowing that someone was maliciously trying to drag her into the pit, Bronya thought to herself. Still, she put on a show of glancing at her wristwatch before saying:
"Ah, it's time. Bronya should go back and