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.

if they could read me. “Something is wrong,” he muttered

know what? You’re right.

do you

you cooking for me–all of it. What are we doing? Are we like a couple?

he’d never heard the word before.

couples

and then he carefully studied me. “Where

I have enough time to think, and I don’t know what your

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

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

The blessed, the

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 things you do, but it is impossible to get into

asked, finally speaking up, but

about it; I want to understand how

realized he’d been leaning in until he withdrew.