Lila´s Game

the roof of Lila's café was deafening, and the lights flickered, leaving the atmosphere suspended between reality and dream

ee, almost insolent smile, he approached the b

water. "Shall we stay and wait for the storm to pass, or shall w

also aroused in her an anxiety she couldn't name. Aroon had a way of disarming silences that sometimes hurt too

most painful concentration, as if searching for something lost in every drop. There was a stillness in him that was

if the moment weighed less

ow slightly. The rain soaked her face, but she didn't seem to care.

ard Thanom, as if guided by an invisible current. T

, without much meaning behind the wor

were a promise: silent, inevitable. In them, Lila felt a dangerous tenderne

ut thinking, sh

and his stillness only intensified the tension that surged between them. They said nothing. There was no

nd the water slid down their skin like an uncomfortable caress. Thanom didn't let go of her ha

surprised by her own voice. She didn't know if

sty that disarmed her. "But ther

flowed from the connection between them. She closed her eyes. Not becaus

laugh brought the

d in the doorway behind them. His figure silhouetted by the light from the bar, his

o. Aroon didn't judge them, but the spark in his eyes was no longer just amu

a storm look... interesting," Aroon added, moving

air Aroon had left empty. The rain continued to beat against the panes, but now, each drop seemed to t

two extremes of the same story th

t. But something inside her

n the world, Lila knew that this moment-so