BIRDCAGE

EIGHT

eight.

LUNA

The sizzling sound of the meat was very satisfying. It's been a long time since I cooked ever since I got captured here. The reason I got myself to love cooking was because it's very satisfying whenever the oil hits my skin

Yeah, I'm a psychopath. I'm not dumb to not realize it myself that I have a very different and weird thinking compared to other people. I was lucky enough that Kai loved that about me and continued to take care of me like he's my big brother

He loved me so much that I had to move out from his mansion so I won't get too attached to him. I find feelings to be irrelevant, an obstacle that can only cause more problems in the future. So I chose to not have such attachments to someone.

I turned off the gas stove and started to place the food on the plate. I basically just lazily slid the plate towards them and crossed my arms, "May God guide you to not choke in your own food and die because I won't bother to give you a proper funeral"

Felix snorted and stared at the food, "Surely you didn't put poison here, right?" He squinted his eyes at me getting suspicious

"Eat it and see if you die"

"You're crazy-!" Ren stood up from his chair and was about to attack me but Felix started to lift his spoon and eat.

Idiots, how could I even poison the food when you took all my things from me. I mentally rolled my eyes with the thought in my head. I searched everywhere in the kitchen but they wouldn't be dumb enough to put poison in this kitchen with a prisoner who's main goal was to kill them, right?

"Mm..." Felix nodded to himself as he licked his lips, tasting the food wholeheartedly. He liked it. "You really can cook" He said with clear amusement in his tone and continued to eat, "Ren, eat. It's tastes good"

Ren slowly sat back down while observing Felix, waiting for Felix to throw up or something if I did poison the food. Felix obviously didn't throw up because I didn't poison it, so he sat down and looked at the food in front of him.

He was hesitant. To make things more entertaining I raised my hands in front of my mouth, covering it to release a mischievous chuckle making it look like I really did do something to the food. Ren looked up at me and shot me a glare, "You...!" His voice trembled in anger.

Felix patted his hands on his shoulder "Itsh okay, she's jusht playing wijh yu" He reassured Ren, his words barely understandable because his mouth was full.

Ren tsked and abruptly raised his fork and stab the steak with full strength while his eyes was focused on me as if he was saying through his eyes that the steak was me. I only gave him a playful smirk.

He started to eat. He obviously tried his best to not show that he liked the food. "Are we good now?" I brought up.

"You're not eating?" Felix asked. I fell silent and our eyes locked for a moment before I broke it off with a shrug, "Not hungry" I sat down across him and rested my chin on my palm.

"Now that think about it, I don't know your name" he suddenly said. I stared at him in disbelief. I can't believe I've been here for what? Four or five days? And this man still doesn't know my name? Surely they did a background check on me, right?

I glanced at Ren but it seems he wasn't paying attention to our conversation. He is focused on devouring the food in front of him, making sure nothing will be left in the plate. I turned back to Felix and he was still looking at me, waiting to say my name.

"Kiera" I say. He stared at me for a couple of seconds before nodding his head like he successfully processed my name into his head.

I don't really need to say my real name to him because there's no reason to. To everyone else, other than Kai and the workers at Elite, the girl named Luna never existed.