Chapter 12. Kidnapped Again [2]

~VLAD~ 

      ~A few hours before Reika's second kidnap 

‘I can cook’ she had said. At first, I thought I hadn’t her right, but the shocked look on the other’s face told me my ears were perfectly fine. I looked at her puzzled, unable to understand her. The next thing I knew, I was granting her permission. I didn’t think before the words left my lips. I was even confused. Fitcher gave me a questioning look, while the others looked at me dumbfounded. I averted my gaze and looked anyway, but at them. Reika went into the woods with Fitcher to look for mushrooms to make mushroom soup, since it was the most likely thing that would be abundant here. I sat on a rock near the fallen tree and looked at her as she cooked. The gown she was wearing when we kidnapped now look old and its ends had been torn, making the dress somewhat short. She bent to pick a stick from the ground, and the tattered dress rose to expose her thighs. My bod