Within Their Reach

13. Bruises

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No perspective.

Aiden was pacing across the room where Silas was seated lazily on the couch. Legs resting on the coffee table in front of him while holding a glass in his hand, looking drowsily at Aiden who kept tugging his hair in frustration.

"What am I going to do?" He looked at Silas from the corner of his eye as he kept striding. "She will never forgive me."

"You are thinking too much, don't you think?" He said, not taking the effort to speak loudly knowing Aiden can hear him.

"You don't understand." He groaned as he waited patiently for the doctor to come out of that door. "She will be hesitant to speak now. She was carefree to speak yesterday."

"Take it from the person who threw her off of the balcony," Aiden glares at him but Silas doesn't pay attention. "You haven't done the worst. Sure it will take time but she will come around."

Aiden knew he was right but didn't say anything back to him. Since yesterday night the doctor and his nurses kept running in and out of the room not giving him any information as to what was happening.

Silas was not least bothered by that but deep down he worried about what will happen to her. He cares for Aiden and it is clear from the loop side that the human means a lot to him and if anything goes wrong, he will be the one to blame. Aiden will never forgive him. Silas didn't want to lose him in all this drama. He was the only one who stood by him in all his mess and tolerated him.

That day when Aiden spoke out about what he felt, it broke Silas' heart knowing what he went through. He never knew what Aiden felt due to all his neglect. It hurt him seeing that being a mate to him for almost six years, he never realised him. That is Aiden's true feelings towards Silas.

"I shouldn't have snapped at her," Aiden murmured taking another glass of whiskey.

"I would have as well if she had asked so many questions." He chuckled bitterly but regretted it seeing Aiden was not happy with the words. So he made it worse. "I mean, why would she ask so many questions if she didn't want anything."

"She was trying to get to know this place," Aiden argued, not happy with Silas' accusation. "What's wrong with that?"

"Maybe she was trying to get to know the place to escape?" Silas rolled his eyes not liking the fact Aiden couldn't see simple things. "She did ask you about the dragon."

Aiden raised his brows, surprised to hear his words. Was he spying on me this entire time? He thought and gritted his teeth.

His irritation only grew when Silas dipped two of his ringed fingers in the goblet filled with blood and brought it to his lips. Not once broke eye contact with Aiden when Silas put his fingers in his mouth and licked them clean making Aiden let out an annoyed groan.

"She was just asking." He cleared his throat as he justified, sending daggers at Silas for making him feel like this when he was angry with the demon.

"Yeah, sure. Just like how she was just running in the forest, so deep that she was in our kingdom. Just like how she wandered outside her chambers in the middle of the night, went to the storage room and for no apparent reason came back upstairs. And instead of heading towards hers, she entered my room and lied." Silas said angrily through his teeth. "Justify that."

There was a long silence and no one spoke a word. Aiden ignored his words as if they had never been said. Silas didn't say anything either. He kept looking at Aiden as he paced across the room worriedly.