Chapter 50

"Alexis?" He raised his eyebrow.

I told him briefly about my relationship with Alexis. Tige frowned.

"What?" I asked.

"Having a close personal relationship with an Elder is a double-edged sword."

Alexis had implied the same thing. "Why?"

"Alexis was a human for thirty years," Tige said. "Not much more than that. He's been Neratomay for twelve hundred years. I don't think he's capable of understanding human emotions anymore. Alexis is moved by nothing more than what amuses him. You having his attention only means that you will be his plaything when he desires it."

I let my mind remember the way Alexis had held my face in the palms of his hands ... "Plaything? What do you mean?"

"His pet. He has had a number of pets."

You can be my pet ... What the fuck did that mean? He'd also said that I could be his lover, but he was trying to figure things out in his head.

I understood Tige's words but felt they didn't match Alexis'. I didn't want to know about this pet thing, and I didn