Chapter 313: Rejection
Kim’s pov
"Why?" Roy drawled after laughing for like a minute straight, like I had said the funniest thing ever. I gritted my teeth hard, hating how I was feeling right now. This is exactly why I always pushed him away, because he always made me feel these big, big feelings that I’ve never felt before, and it was scary. Which is why I’m currently extremely angry at myself for letting myself feel this much anger and jealousy to the extent that I couldn’t even hide it, but I couldn’t hide it no matter how much I tried in this very moment.
Don’t be angry. Don’t let him get to you, don’t let him get under your skin, this is exactly what he wants. He wants you to lose control. Control yourself.
As those words kept dancing around the middle of my chest, slowly, I felt the anger start to bleed out of me till a feeling of calmness engulfed my entire body. I was still extremely jealous, it was a bright red feeling in my chest, but at least I felt in control and most of my emotions were in check once again.
When I let my eyes focus on Roy’s face this time, I let out a long breadth and offered him a fake smile.
"Actually, forgive me for slipping up, I apologize. Why don’t we continue the game?" I asked in a serene voice, holding his gaze with all of my strength and trying to pretend like his body heat was burning against mine, and like his scent wasn’t driving me crazy, or like I was no longer angry, because I still was.
"Why should we? I think we should talk about the two of us, don’t you think so?" He sneered and I made a show of chuckling and rolling my eyes.
"But why should we? We aren’t a thing and won’t ever be, not after you’ve moved on. Remember?" As I spoke, I tried to keep the pain out of my voice but I think I failed at that woefully, and that made me annoyed and irritated at myself because once again, he had made me lose control of my emotions.
"Of course we aren’t, and that wasn’t what I meant anyway." He scoffed and I hated to admit it but the way he spoke made a wave of hurt vibrate in my chest. I tried keeping a neutral expression on, but he clearly wasn’t done being cruel today because he continued.
"About the person I plan to bed, I plan to start something serious with him. He’s kind, he’s pretty and he smells quite nice. What else could a simple person like me ask for?" He asked and I was back to gritting my teeth again, just as the image of the exact person he was referring go popped in the front of my mind. That was the only warlock here in this clan that I disliked, and I refused to acknowledge the reason why I disliked him so much despite him being the sweetest thing ever, and it was because of this asshole who had his brows arched while clearly waiting for a response from me.
"Nothing." I snapped at him, wishing I wasn’t glued to him right now, then I’d have walked out of this situation right now. I was the best at doing that, running away from uncomfortable situations was my favorite thing ever, but alas, that was something I couldn’t do right now.
"You aren’t saying anything else?" He drawled, brows still arched and I scoffed as I glanced away from him for a moment, and then I rolled my eyes and scoffed as our eyes locked again.