Ch 12 The necklace

"Why do you think he is so interested in you that he is following you?"

She gasped and moved back.

Looking at his eyes, she could see something strange but could not tell what was that.

"I-Interested?"

"Hmm. Didn't you just say he is following you? What do you think you are? Someone special?"

She understood that he was making fun of her.

She felt somehow insulted. "I have never said that. I saw him so I am telling you this."

Everett nodded as if he assumed that she was lying to him.

"How much did you see him?"

Delilah remembered that night. She remembered the way that hurricane lamp lost the flames just before she could see him.

But those fierce orange eyes! The anger in his eyes made her shiver in her spine. As if he would kill her anytime soon. As if he would eat her alive just like others said.

She closed her eyes and rested her head on the headrest of the couch.

"I can't explain to you what I saw, Ev- Master. I saw his angry eyes. The way he was looking at me, I can't describe to