Chapter 57

She looks up and raises a brow at him, “Well? Aren’t you going to answer?”

“Would you have preferred I starve to death? Or aren’t you happy that you’re eating?”

She scoffs at his words, tossing a piece of food around with cutlery, “I mean… everyone makes a fuss about how this place is off limits and wouldn’t even near the entrance in their right minds so pardon me if I’m a little curious.” She sasses and Cedric stifles a sigh.

“What exactly do you want, woman?”

“Nothing much.” she shrugs and then there’s a pause before she adds, “Thinking about it objectively, what I truly want is something you cannot offer, at least not until you’re sane again, so I’ll settle with answers to my question for now.”

Cedric felt his ears perk and eyes slightly widen at that, picking her words apart. He wanted so badly to ask what it was that she wanted and believed he couldn’t do and to go ahead and grant her exactly that, but he just couldn’t bring himself to, so, he set