Chapter 24

Mia's POV

When we were finally on the road, his eyes left me and were fixed on the asphalt path that was in front of him, I felt as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulder when he stopped looking at me because I could never really read what was in his eyes except for the intense contempt and anger that would occasionally slip through, and some other flicker of emotion which I genuinely have no idea on how to interpret them.

However, it was becoming awkward to remain in the car with him especially when we stopped at red lights because the silence in the car would become even more intense that after a certain point I was tempted to bring up conversation about the weather inorder to break the silence even if it was just for a little while.

But he broke the silence before me.

"You are my property now,"

That was definitely not how I expected the conversation to start but since it was coming from him, it made a lot of sense as messed up as that sounded.

I fiddled with my fingers as I tr