BASTIAN
As soon as we started talking, I noticed that his eyes rarely left Elina's face , he just didn't seem very interested in what I was saying to him, so in a vain attempt to make him lose his interest in her, I decided to introduce him August as my beta , Iris as chief of the elite warriors, and then each member of the royal guard, leaving Elina last, in the hope that upon hearing her last name he would give up whatever ideas about her that are hanging around his head , but the shot backfired.
"So, the rumors are true," he says with an excited tone, and looks at Elina with curiosity.
"What rumors?" I ask him, feigning ignorance.
"You are truly alive," he replies, but he addresses Elina directly and not me, which makes my jaw clench in annoyance.
"It seems so..." El
