Chapter 42

Aria's perspective

“I love you, mate.” That was when I opened my eyes and saw Neon leaving the bed. I heard all that he said to me but I didn’t respond, I pretended like I didn’t hear him.

He walked to his wardrobe to pick up a jacket. He was about to leave when he switched the lights off.

If I didn’t say anything, he was going to leave the house. If he leaves the house at this time, he is probably up to something, and it has to involve violence.

“Where are you going, Neon?”

He wasn’t going to get his dinner, he wasn’t preparing for bed either, everything he had just said wasn’t it. He was lying to me, he was heading somewhere else, which he didn’t want to say.

It couldn’t be any place good.

“I thought you needed some time. I was going to stay away for a while.”

I scoffed, and sat upright, with my head on the headboard and my hands folded.

“So?”

“I was going for a hunt.” He admitted and stared at his feet for a moment before he looked up and met my gaze.

“Hunt?”

He hummed.

I lay on th