Chapter 27

"Aren't you hungry?" Xavier sat across the dinner table from Vega and I, watching her stare at her food.

"It's delicious," she said, pushing a pea across the plate with her fork.

"I just don't have an appetite."

I, on the other hand, was starving. I had finished the honey-glazed roasted chicken in no time but was still working on the peas and the corn.

"Do you want this?" Vega asked, handing me her bread roll. I nodded and took it out of her hands.

"Does Adam not feed you?" Xavier asked in amusement.

"I didn't eat breakfast," I explained, eating a spoonful of peas.

Vega laughed. "I've never seen you devour peas like that."

I said nothing as I tore off a piece of bread from the roll. Vega was trying to get on my good side, despite having neglected to apologize. It frustrated me that I could empathize with her, however. I understood the stress she was probably under after her father was kidnapped and I could see where that would cause her to potentially lash out.

Despite this, her irr