A Cruel Pretense

Ray did not appear worried at all when he saw Mia, but instead, he asked flatly, "It's late. Why aren't you sleeping? Don't you have classes tomorrow?"

"What am I to you, Ray?" she asked him then.

She was just seventeen at the time, and she did not understand why she was losing composure like that.

She was very calm, unlike her usual pampered self—she was even willing to believe that Ray just had