Aleks left the room to deal with the fact I had thrown up, and I was left there with only Rayden.
I felt a little more comfortable with him now, but he still reminded me of Luc physically and I had this uncontrollable gut reaction to it whenever he approached me. I wanted to run away from him, even though he was perfectly reasonable and he had promised to help me and Ares.
I was sat on the chair that had seemed so tiny when he was on it, and he crouched down in front of me the way that Aleks had so that he was at eye level with me.
“It wasn’t the food.”
Rayden nodded slowly. He was aware of what was bothering me, I didn’t need to explain myself.
“There was nothing I could do. I wanted you to know because… because I know what it feels like to suffer like this.”
He was still right ther
