Chapter 217
"You're over thirty, not eighteen. What are you nervous about?"
Putting the towel back, Song Ren found a thicker bathrobe in the closet, wrapped it around himself, and pushed the door open to leave.
Slow-paced pop music with excellent sound quality drifted through the quiet, spacious pool area.
Beyond the three transparent glass walls, beneath the gray sky, every building and stretch of scenery had taken on cool tones.
The indoors were warm. Song Ren adjusted the collar of his robe and looked around, but Mo Ning was nowhere in sight.
He wasn't in the pool?
"Mo Ning?"
The alpha's voice echoed through the empty house.
No one answered.
For some reason, Song Ren breathed a sigh of relief. Walking to the poolside, he untied the belt around his waist.
The white cotton bathrobe slipped down from his shoulders. His wrists slid free of the sleeves, and holding the robe, Song Ren turned sideways and tossed it onto the lounge chair behind him.
Just as he turned around to jump into the pool, wearing only square-cut swim trunks, he met the eyes of Mo Ning, who had surfaced at that exact moment.
What the hell?
Mo Ning had been here the whole time?
Had he been swimming underwater just now?
As the previous pop song came to an end, a love song that had recently dominated the top of every chart began to play softly.
The instant their gazes met, both the music and every other sound became blurred and distant.
Only the figures reflected in each other's eyes remained clear.
Too clear, too bright—no trace of emotion could escape the other's gaze.
Eyelashes trembled faintly. Bare toes curled inward against the floor, and his chest rose and fell with each breath.
Mo Ning's gaze traveled up from