Book Two - Ch.# 58

“Why are you still being so moody?” she asked me, speaking as I carried her on my back.

Between her behaviour towards Kieran and whatever plan of Clarissa’s this was now, I was certainly more quiet than usual.

“I’m not,” I mumbled, continuing to walk.

I’d agreed to go to the meeting, if only because I’d been the one to request that my cousin come here originally. As Clarissa had said, it would have been rude to make him come all this way only to then ignore him.

“Are you being like this because of this morning?” she asked, sounding concerned. “Or did something happen last night?”

However, after she’d gone and organised this without consulting me, and after she’d treated Kieran so terribly, I really wasn’t in the mood to put up with her questioning.

“I thought you said you didn’t care what happened between us?” I snapped back, quoting what she’d told me in the kitchen. “So stay out of it.”

And she was instantly quiet after that.

I continued to walk into the nearby forest for some time,