Chapter 18

KEENA

The blisters on my skin are healing slowly so I am unable to go to school. Every day Faris brings home my school work and I sit on my bed and try to not to fall behind on my work while Ward sits in the corner of my room and stares at me.

"Are you going to stare at me all of the time?" I groan, unable to tolerate his looks of pity any longer.

"I am supposed to be watching you," Ward says with a smirk on his face. "Every moment of every day. King Erebus's orders."

I roll my eyes at his answer but a small smile spreads across my lips. He really is adorable. "I don't think my father meant that you have to stare at me constantly."

"What else am I meant to do?" Ward shrugs his shoulders.

I close the book that is opened on my lap and close the laptop that is sitting beside me. "We could get to know one another," I point out.

Ward's eyebrows knit together as he thinks about my proposition. It is almost like he doesn't wish to share anything about his personal life wit