The one who was buried

Mallory pursed her lips, ready to deny it, but instead, the words that left her lips were, "Do you mean the question or are you going to tease me about it?"

"It would be very rude of me to tease you before the almighty," Hadeon said, crossing himself with his hand. "I tease women only in certain places."

A quick scowl appeared on Mallory's face, and she was about to get up, saying, "You are never serious."

"Oh, hush now," Hadeon rolled his eyes at her impatience, gently pushing her back to sit by placing his hand on her shoulder. With one clean jump, he moved from the back bench to the one where she was, before taking a seat next to her.

Mallory's heart leaped to her throat for a second. She hadn't expected him to jump over. Her sterling blue eyes stared into his golden ones that looked right back at her. There was a look of fascination in his eyes as he said,