Chapter 169. Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Chantel Raven

This made him stop for a second. He spoke to the man in a low voice and then moved out of the way. The man ran away without taking his hand with him.

When Lexcis turned around to look at me again, I was nervously chewing on the other candy apple, as if I had not just thrown it at his head.

"Firstly, are you okay?" he asked me first, which did not really surprise me.

Right now, I did not trust what I was saying, so I just nodded. There were times when Lexcis was even more violent than this, but this made me feel worse.

"Okay. Did you throw me an apple?"

I gave another nod.

"Alright."

He thought for a moment before saying, "Let us go."

That was our day.

As I walk through the castle doors, I try to stay away from Lexcis until he calms down, but he has other ideas.

"Follow me."

It is getting dark, almost midnight. The moon had already taken the place of