Chapter 36

Eva

I was breathing harshly, and the hand I used to punch him was shaking.

“Eva,” he said in disbelief. I saw that his lips were bright red with his blood. “What the hell has gotten into you?”

“Get out!” I yelled, not feeling at all guilty about what I’d done. If anything, I wanted to hit him more. Goddess, I felt like an idiot. I was sacrificing my immortal soul because of some scum bag who claimed to want me yet couldn’t keep his hands to himself when a beautiful woman was close by.

A scum bag was what he was. Oh, I felt like an idiot!

“Not until you tell me what’s wrong,” he insisted, his tongue darting out to lick the blood from his lips. “I don’t understand why you’re the one being aggressive when you just agreed to being the Head Priestess of the new convent.”

I nodded wildly. “I did, and it was the best decision I ever made!”

“Why are you acting this way all of a sudden?” he asked. “I thought we were starting to become friends. I thought that…that you’d want to stay here.”

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