49. It's Over

"I didn't do anything. I was just kind enough to pick up the calls of two men who contacted you this early."

Feli immediately opened her phone screen to find out what her lover meant. Her eyes closed when she found Eric's message room open. She could already guess that Jerrald had read the message from her bodyguard.

Feli opened her eyes again. "I can explain—"

"What mission are you on, Miss Feli?"

Feli swallowed saliva with difficulty. "C-can you call me 'Cia' as usual?" begged Feli hopefully. She felt strange when Jerrald called her that. She should have gotten used to it, because 'Feli' had been her nickname for a long time. But if Jerrald said it, somehow Feli felt like there was a distance between them.

"Isn't your real name 'Feli'? Why should I call you 'Cia'?" Jerrald rhetorically said with a flat face. It was inversely proportional to his already shapeless heart.

Feli could feel the atmosphere around them was very tense.

"Jerrald—"

"Tell me, what mission did that man named Eri