Chapter 21

Eva

Neide plus another woman brought over the food that Cyrus had ordered.

It felt strange calling him by his first name in my mind, but I reminded myself that this was yet another stupid thing I had to comply with in order to be freed, and anyway, why did I have to call him Alpha all the time? Perhaps it was better this way.

I’d feel more his equal, or at least like he wasn’t better than me.

Cyrus looked over at me as they put the food on the table between us. I had to fight the urge to shake my head at the unnecessary quantity of it. There was no way that we’d both be able to finish the food, which meant what, that it would all go to waste?

Although I was never hungry before in my life, I certainly didn’t have a variety of food for me to choose from. We were thankful for what we had, though, and would definitely be grateful if we had what he has so effortlessly.

Yet he let it all go to waste.

“Is something on this table not pleasing you?” he asked, sitting back. “You’re staring