Hellbound With You novel Chapter 627

Chapter 627 Empty

The sun was already setting when Alicia finally opened her eyes and woke up. She remembered that she had fainted again as they were making their way to this place. But somehow, like what seems to be the norm now, happened again where she always felt better every time she wakes up. It seemed she at least regained some strength after being out for hours.

Pushing herself up, Alicia sat and stared at her hands. She clenched them as tightly as she could into a fist as if to check if the strength that she had regained this time improved a little. To her dismay, nothing changed. It had been like this for a while now. She would faint from weakness and then after waking up, she would regained just enough strength to stand and move around on her own.

She put her palms over her face. The awful feeling in her chest started to boil again when she finally noticed a large black figure slumped to one side on the floor. It was Zeres. And he was sitting on the floor with his back against the door, sleeping.

Surprised, Alicia climbed off the bed and approached him. He was still wearing his cloak and his hood covered the half of his face.

The sight of him sleeping there made Alicia frown hard. Why was he sleeping there?

Bending over, Alicia reached out for his hood when his strong hand suddenly grabbed her wrist as he moved and looked up.

As his hood fell off his head, Alicia had frozen in the act of lifting his hood, her eyes round with alarm. Because his gaze had become so intense and cold and dark, the kind of gaze Alicia never thought would belong to this particular man.

"Zeres..." she whispered, and the darkness quickly dissipated as if it was never there in the first place. He looked away almost immediately.

"I’m sorry." He apologized as he loosened his grip on her wrist and let go.

Silence reigned between them for a moment before Alicia managed to speak again.

"Why are you sleeping on the floor?" she asked but he didn’t answer. He rose instead and reached for the door knob.

"I’ll go get you some food to eat. We’ll be leaving again in an hour."

Without giving her the chance to respond, he silently and swiftly closed the door behind him. With confused and troubled expression, Alicia just stood there, staring at the door.

He returned after a short while with her food and Alicia ate in silence. Since she noticed her darkening hair and even her brows and lashes, Alicia had long since stopped eating with the group. Zeres had been bringing her food and she ate alone in her room. Lately, he had been joining her in having their meals in the room and they ate in silence, both entertaining heavy thoughts.