Chapter Nine

*CONAN*

I didn't wait to shut the door before Claire entered. I poured myself a shot of my strongest booze from the minibar in my room's lovely end, and I quickly downed the entire thing. My teeth were clenched as I swallowed the unpleasant, brown liquid, closing my eyes.

She entered with a visibly angry expression on her face. "What in the name of skies is wrong with you?"

"What do you mean?"

"First you left me in the kitchen, moving so quickly that I didn't even get a chance to see your back, and now you're here, drinking yourself to death? How wonderful.”

"Don't even dare to pull the trigger and hide behind it."

“What is consuming you so deeply?” Her lovely eyes tilted toward my form. "Say something sensible,"

“Like you're that smart, I suppose.”

"Stop playing this game. You will just make me turn away from you.”

“You humiliated me by listening in on my chat, and then you made a fool of me. When I politely declined, how could you ask for an explanation in front of a mere slav