Chapter 146: His Motive (2)
Elian made his way to the room Amade had picked for him the first time he showed up here. Since his room was situated at the far end of the corridor, it was much easier for him to let his guard down as one hardly came here, not even the stalking human girl who’s eyes never seemed to give him a moment to breathe - she always appeared to be watching him closely with those penetrating scary eyes of hers.
"Why am I even bothered?" He grumbled quietly, but nothing coherent came to mind as to why he found her presence bothersome, whilst he chose to shake it off from his head since that was the least thing troubling him presently.
Stepping into his room, he closed the door behind him and took a few strides forward till he stood at the carpeted center of his well-arranged room. When he was in the process of taking his shirt off, the door to his room opened, and he alarmingly turned to see Cassian stepping in without making any necessary effort to knock first.
His body system instantly calmed after seeing it was Cassian and not his sister - but then, why would his sister even think about stepping into his den? Something must be terribly wrong with his brain today.
"Hey, where’s the modesty in knocking?" Elian, who still found it as an intrusion to his privacy, chose to complain as he adjusted his shirt back, his green eyes flickering with a look of slight annoyance, but Cassian, however, didn’t seem the least bothered by it.
"No need to whine like a woman, forget it, I’m not even here to speak on decency, where have you been?" Cassian approached him quietly, his Amber-brown eyes squinting slightly as he studied the blood that had dotted and dried against Elian’s elegant face, and when the redhead didn’t make any attempt to answer his question, Cassian was more than ready to lay out his uncertainties.
"And why’s there blood on you? Did you kill someone?" His instant conjecture made Elian stare in confused bewilderment.
"What??"
Taking hold of Elian’s wrist where he had caught sight of the traces of blood, Cassian could feel the bloody scent getting stronger the more he inhaled it, and now that he got a chance to see it up close, he finally understood why the scent smelled different from normal human blood.