Chapter 431: Waterfront
I don’t know why Dace brought me to a restaurant if he has no intention of eating himself. I’m not hungry but sooner or later I will have to get something in my stomach if I want to avoid my bloodlust towards him, at least right now with my arousal sedated briefly I can somehow control it. Lust and bloodlust go hand in hand if one is sedated.
"Aren’t you hungry?" I said finishing my plate. Dace has been silent since our adventure in the dark, he hasn’t said more than two words since, just keeping his eyes on me like he’s tempted to open me up for answers. Well, I am too, because I want to see inside him too, both ugly and wicked.
I have long stopped comparing the Dace I knew from the past to this Dace sitting right in front of me, they are two different men and I had to understand one of them, which is the one right here staring at me like a hawk.
Isabella’s words still struck me like a knife to my chest, but I told myself not to dwell on it. I have spent five years of my life blaming myself for what happened to him, and maybe I will never stop but at least I can give myself a chance.
I don’t know what chance, any chance at all, my coming back to Juneau might very well be fate, crossed in Dace’s path again.
"Are you done?"
"Yes," I said, wiping my mouth with the napkin.
"Then let’s go" he rose to his feet and walked ahead and I followed in the silence.
We’re going back to the mansion and my mood just mysteriously dissolved and the drive back wasn’t just silence but also eating me up. It’s dark already and Dace left the rooftop of the car open and the heavy breeze coming in, I dance my hands around it and let myself feel some moment of freedom before going back to a house full of werelions.
"I don’t want to go back yet" I don’t know why I bother to say it, maybe I am hopeful he will understand but that is asking too much.
I leaned against the seat and closed my eyes not minding if my hair covered my face.