Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

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.

curious eyes prying into me—as if they could read me. “Something

breath. “You know what? You’re right. What

you mean?”

are we doing? Are we like a couple? Is marriage on your list

pronounced it like he’d never heard the word before.

something couples

know what it is.” He said, and then he carefully studied me. “Where is all

don’t know. I guess with you constantly away, I have enough time to think, and I don’t know

alive, but you don’t have

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

was I? The blessed, the

of silence passed between us. I waited for him to say something–anything. But

to understand why you do the things you do, but

speaking up, but yet he had avoided

to understand how you could fall in

realized he’d been leaning in until he