Lord of Origins

Chp 148 - Helpless Danger

The aversion of his eyes when she entered was the first thing that clued Isabella into the fact that something was wrong. Second was the fact that he was across the room even when he moved deeper into the room, he subtly moved in a way that he was farther away from her than he had been when she entered. Something about how he had been able to get that far away from the door after opening was still a mystery to her but she let that go as everything in her was pointing at the fact that something was not right.

“What is wrong?” she asked as she picked a seaman figurine that had been on the side table in the living room of Damien’s chambers for as long as she could remember. She couldn’t remember if it was a guest that had dropped it because it wasn’t a thing that her father or mother would have deliberately got. She peered at it intently as she wondered why she was suddenly so interested in knowing something as inconsequential as that.

“Or you are merely stalling because you could feel