After a while, she changed her answer. "Gale mentioned it to me."

"Your relationship with her has reached this point where she would voluntarily confide in you?"

"She wants to put us together. You should have noticed it too. So, she brought it up to clarify and hoped I wouldn't overthink it, hoping I wouldn't reject you," Ivy said.

Her reason was very plausible and reasonable, and Aurum did not doubt it. He pondered for a while. Ivy watched his every subtle expression. To see past someone and