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Chapter Seventy-Three
“...What the fuck are you doing back here?” Aleric asked.
He stood in my doorway, arms crossed, staring at me like I was insane.
But I didn’t care. My mind was made up. There was no way I was going to have this conversation tonight.
“No,” I answered flatly.
“‘No’?”
“No, I’m not doing this now,” I clarified. “I’m too tired. We can talk later.”
I rolled onto my side, facing away from him, and pulled the blanket up over my shoulder. Maybe if I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep, he would just leave on his own accord.
“Aria, you need to tell me what’s going on,” he pressed. “Joseph told me you came back over the border and I thought he was joking until I caught your scent by the stairs. Did something happen? Were you caught?”
“No,” I mumbled, repeating myself once more.
“Stop that. Regardless of how tired you are, this is more important. I need to know if something went wrong.”
I groaned out in frustratio
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