Chapter 29

VALERIA

Ater we were done with breakfast and the staff came over over to remove the dishes from the table, I looked at Zane who obviously still had no intentions of standing up and asked in puzzlement, "Aren't you going to work?"

However, instead of answering my question, he gave a mystifying instruction.

"Why don't you go and get dressed?"

Not quite understanding what he meant, I asked with deepening confusion, "Get dressed? For what?"

But then, after asking, I thought of something and looked at him in surprise, "You wouldn't mean I should get dressed for the banquet, right? But I thought you said it was in the evening? Or did I remember it wrong?"

"No, you didn't. I just want to take you out to play", Zane said in reply.

"Take me out to play? What does that mean?"

What answered me was a chuckle full with amusement, "What do you think it means? The literal meaning of course."

"I know how stuffy it must have been to be forced to stay here all alone, without a single familiar p