Chapter Five

Eleanor clutched at his arm, “Are you mad?”

Roth let out a deep sigh, and answered her shortly, “No.”

“I know you are. You must be missing Tristan right now because if he was here, you would have your coffee because of course he is the one who cares about you the most,” Her outburst about Tristan took Roth by surprise. He knitted his eyebrows together in confusion, “How did Tristan come into play?”

But, she was rambling on, not taking his question into consideration, “He is the one who notices your worry from just your voice, and I have spent every second in the previous 24 hours with you but I can’t tell.”

The confused Roth even further, “What?”

She stopped for a while before looking into his eyes, “He called me, your girlfriend, today to inform me that something is bothering you. While I was with you, and I had no idea.”

Roth’s body went still, as the ghost of his voice escaped his lips, “Tristan called? To tell you that something is bothering me?”

That shut Eleanor up, as she inw