Rye raised her eyebrows. “Why are you sitting over there? Come and sit next to me.”

“Please, Rye, let me sit here,” Benjamin requested.

“Why? So that you can sit next to her?” Rye asked without hesitation. “Am I not the one who called you to eat with me?”

Benjamin sighed and then changed places and sat next to her.

She took out a sliced piece of carrot and brought it closer to his mouth. He didn’t open his mouth and looked at her as if asking what she was doing. “This is the reward for listenin