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I groaned internally.“You need a bell around your neck.”
Eres scoffed deeply.“You need to accept that we are one now.”
It was my turn to scoff.“Not until we sort some of our shit out, and I’m kinda busy dealing with this. You are just going to have to wait.”
Before she could respond, I closed the barrier between us, but I could still feel her seething at being pushed away. Her irritation leeched beneath my skin and made me feel itchy.
“Fine.” Reaching for a glass, I took a sip of water. “Another time, then. Anything you care to share with me now?”
“I hate radishes.”
I hummed. “I was thinking of something with more substance.”
“No really. They’re awful. If they end up in my food, it just ruins the entire day. I forbid them in the castle. Not really a fan of turnips either.”
I gave him an unimpressed glare. “So aside from your disdain for root vegetables, what else? Clara told me the people of Tartarus think you’re pretty great. Must be they hate radishes too.”
“I hear the note of sarcasm in your voice. Either you love those demon vegetables, and I’ve offended you, or you find it hard to believe that the people of this world are happy with me. I’m betting on the latter.”
“Yes, if that’s what you want me to say. I find it hard to believe.” I wasn’t sure why I was so irritable. Maybe Eres’s emotions were leaking into my own.
“And why is that? Would your reasoning be based on your extensive knowledge of me?” My silence spoke for me, and he nodded, getting up from the table. “You think you know so much about me, but you know nothing, Reagan. Only what you were told. It’s a shame.”
I stood up as he approached me. “And why is that a shame, Caius? Do you think a dinner and some surface level conversation is going to change anything?”
“You’re my mate, Reagan. I feel that in my bones. You trying to push me away won’t change that.” He tilted his head as he considered me. “I’ll get through to you eventually. Six months is a long time.”
“That’s it? You’ll get through to me?”
“What did you expect?”
“You aren’t going to stand here and tell me you’re wonderful and magnanimous and that I should just accept you as a mate and live happily ever after?”
“Would it work?”
“No.”
“Then why bother?”
“I don’t know. I figured you wanted me to believe you.”
“And you will.”
“How?” I crossed my arms, jutting my hip out to the side as I shifted my posture.
Caius traced a finger down the curve of my cheek, and my body stiffened. His touch sent tingles over my skin. Taking my hand in his, he pressed his lips to it, kissing softly before letting go. When he looked at me, he let a few seconds pass where we stared in silence and my heart pounded.
“Actions speak louder than words, love. Just wait.”
He exited the room, and I ran my fingers through my hair, huffing in frustration. I picked up my glass and threw it across the table toward a painted picture of him.
It shattered just as two dinner servants walked in the room, their eyes wide in shock. Just what I needed. They’d just witnessed the only two seconds I’d lost my cool.
No doubt this incident would spread like wildfire.
I just hoped the flames wouldn’t consume me as well.
Chapter15
