"It's fine." Roza squinted her eyes and flicked the ash from her cigarette with her slender, pale fingers. "I have no family. I make my home wherever I go."

"What are you talking about? If you have no family, what am I?" Bella affectionately linked arms with her. "Once a teacher, always a... you know."

"Taking advantage of me, huh?" Roza teased, hooking Bella's chin with the hand holding the cigarette.

Roza was taller and had a bigger frame than Bella. Combined with her bold and sassy gestures, their close interaction invoked a strange chemistry between them.

Axel sat among the crowd, but his gaze was fixed solely on Roza's every move. He did not like people who smoked. Every time Ralph had a cigarette, he would find a way to snatch it from him.

features and the lazy elegance in her half-closed eyes as she exhaled. At this moment, even though she was doing something he disliked, she looked like

had not seen each other for a while and had not been in touch. Yet he found himself checking her Instagram almost daily, silently

bring them closer. However, Roza had not spoken a word to him or even spared him a glance

contents and downed it in one go, regardless of what it was. "Holy crap!

Axel froze. 'Absinthe?!'

like his entire digestive tract was on

casually at Axel's retreating

Roza's fingers and extinguishing it. "I know you need inspiration for your designs, but there are many ways to find it. Ruining your health is the worst choice. Besides, smoking will turn your teeth, fingers, and

I look terrible? I don't need a man. As long as my designs look good, that's all that matters," Roza

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