Larissa looked at Ren when he came in.
"You're two minutes late."
"Liu kept me."
"Liu always keeps you..."
They were alone.
Ren had the theory that the absence of an audience was more convenient for Larissa than for him in these sessions, but he had never found the right moment to raise it without the moment becoming a different kind of conversation.
When they had started this a few days ago, he had assumed they would have difficulty not feeling embarrassed about practicing for what was essentially the official promise that they would be getting married, but she had gone straight to the point the moment the door closed even the first day.
