156: Fate (III)

"Claude?" Her voice brought him back to the present. 

"Huh?"

"You were saying something?" She reminded him and watched as an understanding look flashed across his features. 

"Oh, yeah! I-I wanted to send you something back then but it was something personal so I decided to bring it to you myself. It was then I found out that you had moved cities." He paused for a while as he reminisced about the past. "I was so mad at myself back then for not keeping an eye on you." 

"You know I would have hated it if you had me followed." She interrupted him. 

"Why do you think I didn't assign guards for you?" Claude rolled his eyes. For him, her security was the only thing which mattered the most. So, instead of doing it himself, he talked to her father. The old man was kind enough to agree with it as long as Claude promised not to intervene. 

Ayla