Chapter Ninety Four
Chapter Ninety Four
I couldn’t bring myself to sleep; Thane clouded my thoughts.
“Still thinking about him?” Daemon asked. We both knew who he was referring to.
“No.” I lied.
“I can tell when you are lying.”
“What difference does it make? It’s not like you will let me go to him.”
“And what if I can?”
“Vox wouldn’t let you.” I stated.
“You know, I have never truly been a ‘free‘ creature. Every time I feel as though I’ve achieved it, I realize I am still in servitude.”
“It had been from Jade to Bruce and then… Vox.” I said to him, and he nodded in agreement.
“I want to ask you a question, and I need a genuine answer from you. When I was gone with Jade, you knew what was going to happen to me. Did you at any moment regret your decision? Did you ever think about me?”
I was silent for a long while. “Daemon, I…”
“Just answer the question.”
“You want an answer, then it’s ‘No:. I never regretted my decision; I never thought about you–at least not in the way you think.”
“Do you hate me, Riley?”
“I sometimes believe I do. When you become that monster, I do hate you, but then you change, and you act completely different. I want to hate you, Daemon, for everything you’ve done to me. I really want to, and yet…”
“You don’t,” he completed.
I couldn’t give a response.
“When you betrayed me ‘once again,‘ I made up my mind that I was going to make you pay for it. I spent hours and hours thinking about how you were going to suffer, ways I would put you in pain, but then… I saw you. The monster you hate–that’s me, the real me, but anytime I am with you, I want to be something else; I want to become someone you wouldn’t look at with disgust or hatred. I am not supposed to care about what you think of me, and yet I do.”
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“When you warned me not to anger Vox, it was because you wanted me alive?”
“Yes. I do, despite everything; I still need to be reminded of a reason to kill you. But so many things will change, Riley; I will have to make decisions that will make you very pissed. I will do everything Vox orders me to do, and you will hate me all over again… But before, let this be the one good thing I have ever done.”
He rose from the bed, and I watched him curiously. “What are you doing?”
“You may want to grab some food; we are going to see Thane.”
I didn’t believe it, even as I packed up the food the maids had brought with shaky hands into the bag; I didn’t believe Daemon would do it, but I kept silent.
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Chapter Ninety Four
“Ready?” he asked, and I nodded.
He took out a blindfold and wrapped it around my eyes. “I wouldn’t want you having a single clue of where we are going to.”
I nodded; I didn’t really care; all I wanted to do was see him again. He held me close; I could feel his hand settle at the small of my back, a possessive hold, and then the chill wind blew through my hair. It felt like only a few seconds had passed by, but even from the smell of the place, I knew we were no longer in our room.
The place had this pleasant natural smell of wet soil.
I lifted my hand to the blindfold.
“Not yet,” Daemon said.
He placed what I assume to be a jacket over my nightgown. It was indeed cold here.
After about thirty minutes of walking, he came to a stop and took off my blindfold.
