// Damn right 🤣

// Stay safe.

"Hey, now..." Stepping forward, Zack reached out, wrapping his arms around her smaller frame and pulled Raika into a warm embrace.

She may have gotten taller since he saw her last, but she was still Raika.

"Don't cry."

Or maybe it was because she was someone he cared for.

In the end, it didn't matter the reason. He just knew that he needed to comfort her.

// Geez

// Well, that went through, at least lol

// WOOF WOOF

—backed away.

Getting in between a man and his sleep, shame on him.

—had wished she had given him a heads up.

Pale lips parted and a low voice spoke, uttering words of confusion and for a second, Zack regretted his decision to rouse the man from his slumber.

"Uh... You know what, I'll come back another time..." Holding up his hands, the ebony-haired SOLDIER—