Maelis “Daddy?” Anna repeated, still staring at the obvious evidence of our frantic entanglement, the melting ice cream cones held in her small hands. Lucian recovered instantly, as he stepped forward quickly, providing an excuse, “We were umm… killing bugs. Yeah, there’s a bug on her face and I’m helping her to kill it. Baby, you see…” He rushed the excuse, then quickly pivoted. “When did you get here anyway?” “Just now, when daddy was taking too long to come back,” she said to him with the same confusion written on her little face, looking unconvinced by his 'bug' excuse. He nodded at her going to her side and took her hand then he turned to me immediately, “We need to get out of here, they're going to be rounding people up for investigation very soon.” Anna turned her little head to me and said, “Come on Maelis, let's go to my room.” I glanced back at the exit to see that security is really truly piling up there so I nodded and followed them, wondering did Lucian eve
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