"Jiang, there's something I need to confess," I say, my fingers nervously clutching to the edge of my sleeve.
His head tilts. "You… touchy-touchy me somewhere else!?"
I nearly choke on air. "Ugh—no, idiot! This is serious!" I shoot him a glare and smack a palm to my forehead. "Just—listen before you start judging with those puppy eyes."
He gives a small nod, his antenna twitching once like a signal of attention.
I take a deep breath, steadying my voice. "Okay… So listen. Those bad humans who are after your blood? I know them. They… offered me a deal. They asked me to help them hunt you down."
know bad people?" Jiang's antenna droops a little, and his eyes go wide. "You… work for them?"
"No no no—Jiang, nope!" I wave both hands fast, like I'm swatting away a mosquito cloud. "I'm just pretending to help them, okay? Just to learn everything about them first, then—boom—we take them down!"
His antenna perks up again. "Like in TV?"
