Chapter 58

Eva

I stared at him for a long time, waiting for him to respond.

I wasn’t sure why, but these last few days, I was awake but mentally, it was like I was asleep. Perhaps it was shock; things happened so quickly since the Lunar Festival and I hardly had time to process everything. To make matters worse, I’d been sleeping for most of the time and refusing to entertain my thoughts because of how helpless and desperate they made me feel.

Being in the car with him changed that for me, though. I was now gathering all the information I had of him in my mind and how he could have been connected to everything. He had been looking for me. The priestesses told me that someone was asking about me which was why I couldn’t return and that I would need Cyrus to keep me safe. Then suddenly, the Convent burned down and his people showed up to take me.

Nox was capable of terrible things. He would have killed me mercilessly if it weren’t for the fact that we were fated mates.

So, why wouldn’t he hav