Chapter 140

I could only hope it wasn't heart disease.

I dismissed the thought and made my voice deliberately flat.

"You said you were hungry. Why aren't you eating?"

"I'm too busy looking at you."

"…Tch!"

Wait — why was he being so gentle?

Had he always been like this? Now that I thought about it, he had been rather kind toward me in his own way.

He seems less like a psychopath and more like a genuinely tender man.

A tender psychopath. How unsettling.

But then, I supposed, a tender psychopath wasn't entirely impossible.

I shook off the strange, fuzzy warmth rising inside me and snapped petulantly:

"I'm hungry!"

"Then eat."

Kael smiled and tilted his head in the direction of the food.

I didn't refuse — I picked up my fork.

"I'm going to eat a lot today."

"Please do."

"I mean an extraordinary amount!"

I raised both fists, fork…