Chapter 84: A Mysterious Guest (1)
"You’re not as poor as I predicted for someone who just started learning the dance." Commented Cassian as he still helped her with the steps, and that brought a proud smile to her lips to hear she wasn’t doing hundred percent bad.
"Then I’m guessing I’m not as stiff as I have imagined myself to be." Out of mere instinct, both her hands linked themselves around his neck and she asked. "How did you learn to dance like this? You never gave the impression of someone who would take dance lessons."
Madeline asked out of pure curiosity, and her curiosity was, however, justified.
"There are a lot of things I do that don’t fit the impression I give, which is why I don’t do them." He clarified, and that only piqued Madeline’s interest to know what else he was capable of doing other than being a skilled dancer.
"But how did you learn?"
"Inna’s maestro was into teaching the famous dance, and I was forced to take lessons since Inna was still the height of a canned beer to do so herself."
Cassian hadn’t really thought much about his childhood before he turned into a rogue, and talking like this, he was reminded after a long time that he did take such etiquettes seriously.
As the music drew to a close, Cassian pulled Madeline closer, his arms encircling her waist. She looked up into his eyes that were blindfolded, and it made her wonder if the feeling she felt right now would be different if she looked into his eyes instead.
It brought a sense of anticipation, yet Madeline was still nervous about his eyes that hadn’t recovered yet.
When the music stopped, Cassian pulled back like how a gentleman would after dancing with a lady. He bowed before the lady who in return curtsied at his gesture.
"Can we share another dance like this in the future?" Asked Madeline as she waited for the young lad’s response.