Page 37 of Heart of the Hunted
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Natalia
Natalia couldn't believe it. How the hell did she manage to get herself caught by possibly the only Demon in the world who has ever promised not to kill a Human?
She was positive that he had planned to kill her in the beginning, but then changed his mind. But why? Was it just because he couldn't be bothered carrying her dead body to prove to his friends that he had in fact caught one of her kind?
Natalia didn't know the answer to any of the questions floating around in her mind, but then again, she didn't really care what the reason was either. At the end of the day, if he wasn't going to kill her, then she wasn't going to complain about it.
The question now was, were his friends going to do the killing for him? Was that the real reason he wasn't going to kill her? If that's what he planned, then he could think again. As far as she was concerned, he promised she wouldn't die, and that meant by his friends’ hands as well.
"You don't have to look so smug about it,” she told him.
"I don't look smug," he said.
"Of course, you do. Otherwise your face wouldn't be doing that," she said, pointing her finger at his lips… his kissable lips.
Whoa, where did that come from?Natalia thought as she mentally slapped herself.
Nothing about him was kissable, he was a monster through and through, and she had to remember that.
"Are you saying that I'm not allowed to smile?" he asked, still grinning at her.
"That's exactly what I'm saying, especially if that's what you call a smile," she told him.
If for no other reason than to keep her own sanity, because god that smile affected her more than she cared to admit. It was a mix of saint and sinner, tempting her to lean in for a taste.
Natalia gave herself a mental slap. How she could find a Demon attractive she didn’t know, but there was something about this one that got her all hot and bothered, and it had nothing to do with him pinning her to the floor a moment ago.
Well, I could blame it on lack of sleep,she thought.Maybe I banged my head somewhere along the line and just didn’t realize.
Now she was grasping at straws and she knew it, but she wasn’t prepared to accept that she found a Demon attractive, even if it was just to herself.
"Of course it's a smile, what else would it be?" he laughed.
"Looks more like a smirk to me," she lied, because there was no way in hell, she was going to admit the truth.
"Well, you obviously haven't seen many smiles in your life before, then."
"There's not really much to smile about when you're constantly on the run for your life, now is there?" she asked.
"Yeah, I suppose you haven't had much to smile about, have you," he said, finally dropping the smile from his face.
Natalia had a really weird feeling that she had just upset him, but the weirdest thing about it was she wanted to take it back so he would smile at her again. But that was just plain stupid.
Why on earth should she care if she hurt his feelings or not? After all, his kind - and even he - openly hunted and killed her kind and they didn't give a shit if they hurt anyone’s feeling, so why should she?
"So, where are you taking me?" she asked, trying to change the subject.
She didn't want to look too deeply into why hurting his feelings affected her so much, so it was safer just to think about something else instead.
"I don't know yet," he told her.
"You don't know where your friends are?" she asked.
"No."
"So, what? We're just going to wonder around until we find them?" she asked. When he nodded his head, she added: "No wonder you didn't want to carry me the whole time."
