Chapter 96

Hazel's POV

"Don’t let that dampen your spirits. Moreover, this lunch is too delicious to ignore."

"Does anything ever bother you, Lia?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, do you ever get concerned over our circumstances?"

"You sound accusing? Why do you sound accusing?"

Of course, I sounded accusing. I sounded upset too. What was wrong with Lia?

"Isn’t it due?"

"What’s due? To ask me a question in that voice?"

"A question you've yet to respond to."

"And why should I?"

"Because I want to know."

"Know what?"

"Don’t let me repeat myself."

My lips weren’t moving, but I could feel my annoyance churning in me with every word I emitted. Even my hold on the fork was unnecessarily hard.

"You need to make me understand where all this is coming from, Hazel? Why do you make me sound like some bad, insensitive wolf who doesn’t care about her human?"

"Don’t you?"

"So you see me as tha