Chapter Two Hundred

Chapter Two Hundred

I shouldn’t be thinking about Ash’s words, but I was. No matter how many times I tried to shove them out of my mind, they always found their way back.

“Dinner is served. Come eat,” Daemon announced. Staring at him, I could almost forget that he was a demon; he just seemed so… human. But when you looked deeper into those dark blue eyes, that’s when you noticed something off–something that screamed predator.

“I’m not hungry.”

“That’s a lie. Come with me,” he said. I might be hungry, but I was in no mood to eat, yet I followed him. He had already dished out the food for me and, as usual, none for himself.

“Thank you.” I muttered, taking a seat. The smoky scent of spiced grilled meat filled the air. On any other day, it would be enough to make my mouth water and my stomach rumble, but this time, I could barely force myself to eat more than a few small pieces.

“Aliyah,” Daemon called, and I looked up at him. “I can make something else if you don’t like this.”

“It’s not that. I’m just not hungry.”

He watched me, to himself.

prying into me—as if they could read me. “Something is wrong,” he

breath. “You know what?

do you mean?”

Living together, you cooking for me–all of it. What are we doing? Are we like a couple? Is marriage on your list of things to do? What happens next?”

He pronounced it like he’d

couples do.”

is.” He said, and then he carefully studied me. “Where

you constantly away, I have enough time to think, and I don’t know what your plans are- did you

and keeping you alive, but you don’t have to worry about

the problem; you make it sound like we’re just two couples getting to know each other better, but you

I? The blessed,

passed between us. I waited for him to say something–anything. But he didn’t, and as the silence

know, I want to understand you, but it’s so hard. I want to understand why you do the

finally speaking up, but yet he had avoided

felt about it; I want to understand how you could

leaning in until he withdrew. A scowl on his face.

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