THESE HIDDEN WINGS

[122] THEORIES

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'each time I break your trust, I'll punish myself by giving you a clue-"

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I STARED AT the sleeping figure of Daya across from me, having only entered a few minutes after I was tucked in.

The difference was, that she was already fast asleep whilst I was only replaying all that had happened only an hour ago,  trying to put the pieces in my mind and yet failing miserably.

Shifting in bed, I retained the one position that allowed me to think clearly as I stared into the darkness, scratching my wrists as the memories replayed in my mind.

Those blue eyes illuminated by the moonlight, his intensity when he asked me to walk away and yet somehow I foolishly remained standing there like a fish.

He kissed me.

Not the way I had thought and yet the way he did it, a kiss to my forehead, lingering there for as long as he did.

My heart pounded within me at the memory.

Why?

Why did he even kiss me in the first place? Why had his demeanor changed from angry to what I could only describe as vulnerable?

I shook my head in the darkness. Was this some kind of tactic he was playing? He was so bipolar I didn't even know what to think about all of it at all.

My heart was still racing at the mere memory of the action, harder than it should have been.

There was a whole moment I had with Lucas and even then, Harvest had still found a way to take that from me, rob every corner of my mind, only reminding me of what he had done and trying to figure out why he had done it.

My eyebrows furrowed in the darkness pulling the sheets closer to me, trying to think, My brain ended up pulling out the memory of the night before.

The action of our fingers entwining, his soft touch, the perfect fit.

My breathing slightly faltered as his words echoed through my mind,

'each time I break your trust, I'll punish myself by giving you a clue-"

I turned over staring blankly at the wall, still in deep thought.

Why would he punish himself by giving me a clue? Why did he find the need for that?

I had thrown a stone in the ocean when I accused him of breaking my trust and using his dilect on me again.

It had been my last attempt and I never thought I would win the argument the way I did.

It seemed all too easy to get him to speak.

I know he played this out to be a game, but we both knew he had no obligation to say anything- so why was he doing this?

I narrowed my eyes in the darkness trying to piece things together. Had he even been telling the truth about his pendent?

He had to be, I could see the truth in his eyes, but I wasn't a hundred percent sure, after all, there were a lot of things Harvest was capable of and I was sure lying to me and making out to be the truth couldn't be that difficult for him.

Besides who on earth would want to kill him? That sounded way too drastic.

He was too young to make enemies of that kind of caliber though I was sure he would have no problem making them in the future.