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.

me—as if they could read me. “Something is

breath. “You know what? You’re right.

you

we doing? Are we like

He pronounced it like he’d never heard the word

something couples do.”

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

enough time to think, and I don’t

made only covered getting you here and keeping you alive, but you don’t have to worry about all that- we’ll take it one

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

The blessed, the chosen,

to say something–anything. But he didn’t, and as the silence stretched, my anger

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

speaking up, but yet he had avoided all my

about it; I want to

he’d been leaning in until he withdrew. A scowl on