Chapter 172

Damien's gaze travelled across my form and he spoke, "You are not just thin. You are malnourished. It will make your bones weak and your skin fragile. If this continued your hair would fall out and so would your teeth," he stated bluntly.

I rolled to my side and faced him, "None of that is happening now and I'm not malnourished!" I stated with finality. "She fed me three times a day."

"Rupe," Bane said, "she fed you rupe three times a day. It fills your stomach and you will not feel any hunger, but you cannot absorb nutrient from it. Our cousins used it to feed early human...women. They died looking as you do now."

"Our family does not eat it," Kein said tracing the line of my hip. "We have never eaten it. The Child Keepers said we could not have it and it is never brought to us. That is why you have never seen it."

"It was food," I insisted. "I was just very busy-"

"You - did - not - absorb - any - of - it," Damien said very slowly.

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