Chapter 16

MOSES'S POV

"I believe you don't eat with your eyes, do you?" I asked as I watched her sitting there and staring at her food instead of eating.

She looked up at me with the same fright that she had had in her eyes all night.

I was not even acting scary, and she was already scared. What on earth would I do with this girl?

Despite my reminder, she still sat there staring at me like I had spoken a foreign language that she had not been taught how to speak.

"Eat up," I said again, this time in the nicest voice I could muster.

Only then did she pick up her spoon and start eating with shaky hands.

Why had she looked so fierce the first day I had seen her at her father's palace? She had even slapped a maid that day, but here she was looking like she could not even hurt a fly. She looked so innocent, like a little lamb that should stick to its shepherd all day long because it needed protection from external attacks, but back then in her house when I had first seen her, she looked like the at