Chapter 79

“But you will be missing out on the chocolate mousse cake,” Killian said to her with a pout. “You cannot miss the mousse cake baked by Selene; it’s really good.” He paused and added, “And Selene will like it if you come to the party. Maybe that will help her with the healing process.”
Inez scowled at the man. “That’s a low move.” He was using her care for Selene against her by making her come to the party.
“As long as it works, I don’t think that there is anything wrong.” Killian winked at her with a cheeky smile on his lips. He turned the steering wheel to the left as he headed down the street. However, just as they were driving past, Inez’s gaze fell on a drive-through and she said to him, “Can you drive past there?”
Killian turned to look at the drive-through that Inez was pointing at and frowned. He said to her, “You just had breakfast.”
“I don’t know what that has to do with me wanting a burger?” Inez blinked her eyes and looked at the lycan who, despite his annoyance, smiled at her and stated, “We will get you a reward once we have spoken to Remy.”
“Well, if you don’t let a girl grab her snack, then good luck getting me out of this car because I ain’t moving,” Inez said to the man. She was stubborn when it came to her snack. It was quite enough that she had given up on her chocolate because of this man.
There was no way she was going to stay silent even after losing her burger.
That was where Inez drew the line.
“Do you really have to act like this?” Killian was speechless. He turned to look at the woman with a hint of confusion in his eyes. “If someone sees you acting like this, they will think that I am starving you.”
“Well, you are starving me,” Inez said in a matter-of-fact tone with a shrug.
“It’s just a burger.”
“And it is a two-hour-long journey. I can’t wait that long.”
Killian stared at her as if he was making sure that she was speaking the truth and he must have noticed the stubborn glint in her eyes because a second later, he sighed and turned the direction of the car, pulling it into the drive-through lane. He came to a stop in front of the menu boards and said, “Fine, get on with it.”
Inez was quite satisfied with his actions. She turned to look at the man and asked, “What do you want?”
Killian shrugged. “There is no need to go out of your way to order something for me. I will just have a bit of what you are having.”
To his surprise, Inez did a slow blink before shaking her head. “Umm… that’s not going to work.” Dıscover more novels at
“What do you mean by that—it is not going to work?” Killian asked, stupefied.
“Because I don’t share my food with anyone.” While growing up, Inez had a hard time filling her stomach. Ricky had been a spoiled child since he was young, so sometimes even when he couldn’t eat what Inez wanted to eat, he would snatch it away from her.
So Inez developed the habit of eating as much as she could whenever she got a chance. From stuffing her mouth at odd times to hoarding food and snacks, Inez had learnt a few bad habits of not sharing her food with anyone.
And she learnt it the hard way, just as Ricky learnt not to snatch her food after getting beaten up by her.
Killian naturally didn’t believe her. He looked at her frail figure and didn’t believe that she could eat more than half a burger.
Clearly missing that she was being serious, Killian said to her, “It’s just a few bites.”
“I told you I am not going to share anything with you. I am not a person who shares her food.”
Amused despite the annoyance that he was feeling as he couldn’t understand the lure of food, he asked, “What about a few fries?”
“Never. You don’t touch my loaded fries; they are the best part of having a burger.”
“What about rolls?”
“No.” Inez watched impatience flicker in the eyes of the lycan, like he thought that she was being unreasonable. As if. If he had grown up starving like her, with his mother telling him that he was eating too much, he too would have learnt the same habits as her. “Just order a meal; it’s not that hard.”
“But I am not in the mood to have something.”
“So order something light.”
“Why is it so hard to share something with you?”
“Because food is the only thing that I am territorial about.”
“Is that a siren thing?”
“No, it is an Inez thing.”
Killian arched his brow. He said to her, “That’s just you being greedy and not territorial.”
“You can call it whatever you want.” She was not apologetic about her habit, as she knew that it had helped her survive the days when she was locked up by her mother.
Inez’s eyes darkened when her mind went back to the days when she was a little girl and her mother used to lock her up in her room because she was too embarrassed to let a monster out.
Realising that the woman was lost in her own thoughts, Killian snapped his fingers and said to her, “Fine. I will have a burger too.”
However, as soon as the woman finished ordering, Killian was simply speechless. He gawked at her as Inez pulled her head inside the car.
When Inez saw him looking, she raised a brow and questioned, “And what are you looking at?”
“You!”
His lips twisted as he questioned, “Do you always eat like a cow? I mean with the order that you have placed, you could have offered me an entire meal instead of a few fries, sweetheart.”