LARA
We were sitting there and staring at each other. Saying nothing as the servants were changing dishes before us. I took several bites of something, feeling extremely uncomfortable under his gaze. He was watching my every movement and it was annoying, considering he was doing it for someone else. So, every time I was starting to feel special, I had to kill that feeling because deep inside I knew that he is doing all that not for me but for his Emperor.
The annoyance got to me as I stabbed the tomato on my plate.
“Easy!” Demir chuckled, “You defeated him, and he begs for easy death!”
“Is everything a joke to you?” I snapped, sighing mentally. That was not the way of the people of the White Archipelago. We were supposed to be calm and reserved in any kind of situation. However,
