Chapter 20

Celeste sat alongside Liam and Fredd on the couch, glaring at the carpet on the floor. If she didn’t hate Liam before, she hated him now, he was behaving so unlike himself, he wasn’t like this before, sure he was sarcastic and disgustingly annoying, but that was honestly better than him being angry.

“Can I go to my room?”

He looked from the Television and over to her. “Absolutely not.”

“Why?”

“Because I want to talk to you.”

“We’ve talked enough in the dungeon, I honestly don’t want to hear anymore.”

He clenched his jaw, then shifted on his seat. “Regardless of that, I’m still going to speak. That night it wasn’t Zillo—”

“Did Zillon give you permission to talk about this with her?”

Liam shook his head at Fredd. “No, but he’s being stupid, he wants to face everything by himself…I’m trying to help him.”

“And you are, but Zillon is the one who should explain, he’ll do it soon…he’s already backed up against the wall.” Fredd turned to