CHAPTER 39: BACK OFF!

SILAS’ POV:

“I hate you!”

I can’t see her face with my head forcefully swung the other way but I hear the tremble in her words.

I’m speechless at first, still shocked from the sudden assault. It stings but not my face.

Something else stings inside me.

I slowly turn to her wide-eyed, clutching onto my cheeks. My eyes remain bewildered, watching her tremble.

She doesn’t even dare to look up to me while biting at her lower lips.

“W-what?”

I don’t believe what I’ve heard from her just now.

“I hate you,” she mutters more silently than earlier.

It doesn’t sting as less as before, only a lot more realizing I hadn’t misheard.

“Freya, what’s going on?”

I take a step closer to take her hand in mine but she quickly moves back, shifting her hand out of my reach.

“Don’t touch me.”

She’s acting even crazier, which starts to annoy me.

“Don’t touch you? What’s that supposed to mean.”

“It simply means don’t touch me.” She snaps more