Chapter 174
Alexis
"Are you mad at me?" he asks eventually.
"You tell me." I snap. I tried to sound unbothered and cool, but I ended up sounding like a child.
"You've been avoiding me."
"I have not." He shifts on the swing. "You've been busy. I've been busy....with everything."
I scoff.
We're quiet again. The garden is still. The butterfly is gone. The dungeon flowers glow faintly in the fading light.
"I don't know what you want from me," I say finally.
"What do you mean?" His voice is soft.
"The way you treat me. The way you look at me." I grip the chains of the swing. "It's different. And I wonder if it was just me, overthinking things."
He doesn't respond.
"But I know it's there." I stare at the flowers, not seeing them. "It took time for me to accept the fact that... you're... I'm... we're the same gender and these emotions can develop. It's not biologically logical, after all."
Benjamin is very still beside me.
