#th; linger

Mika waited outside of the village, as instructed. They felt cold despite it being summer, a bag of money was tucked carefully in the bottom of their bag. He was supposed to come here for the payment but Mika worried what they had wasn’t enough. It’d taken months of squirreling away cash that their partner didn’t know about. Amane had her thumb on everything Mika did, where they went, who they talked to, what money they had-- except for this. It’d taken an excuse of going to the market so Mika only had an hour to return with groceries. Oh god what were they thinking. This wouldn’t work and they’d be caught. Mika began to pace, heart racing. They could walk away and go on like this hadn’t happened...