78: Mine

"Aria, why do you keep withdrawing your hands each time I try to hold them?" Robert asked, his voice low.

"The same reason your voice is low." Aria replied.

He laughed. "So?"

"I mean your voice is low because you probably don't want people to know that we may have a thing or whatever and I keep withdrawing my hands because we're in a workspace and we shouldn't be doing that here." Aria replied quickly, this wasn't what she wanted to talk about. She wasn't in the right frame of mind for such conversations.

"I lowered my voice because I don't want people to know that I'm begging a pretty girl like you to allow me hold her hands." Robert replied and Aria's cheeks flushed.

"Oh well..."

"I guess this pretty girl doesn't want to be held."

"She does, but maybe not now."

Robert leaned off the chair, his brows raised with a smirk on his face. "Is this your way of telling me you'd like to cuddle after work today?"

"Oh my gosh Robert! Friends don't cuddle!" Aria's voice was slightly raised and s