Chapter 86

Then her eyes widened, and she whipped her head from his chest. “Master, you’re awake!”

“I am. Why? You want me dead?” he said, but the usual hate and coldness was absent from his eyes.

“No.” She shook her head adamantly. “No, Master. I don’t want you dead.”

He said nothing. Instead, his eyes watched her with that unreadable expression that had become a second cloak to him. Finally, he averted his eyes. “Who left me in your care?”

“It was… Madam Baski.”

“Baski seems to have taken a gamble with my life, leaving me all night alone in the care of Cone’s daughter.” His lips thinned.

Danika’s eyes widened. She pushed down the hurt that spread through her body on his judgment of her and bowed her head to him. “I would never do anything that would cause you harm,” she whispered.

Silence. The only sound she heard were the chirping of birds and the rustling of the wind.

Then he blinked his eyes slowly and averted them. “I wouldn’t have