“Hit me, be angry with me, anything that can satisfy your anger. Don’t give <i>me </i>your silence” Maxims cupped her face, he stared into her eyes, and he saw nothing, but numbness. “Come back to me.”


    Maximus felt a lot of feelings at the same time, as he felt the mate bond between them was stretched taut. This was the most ufortable feeling he had ever felt.


    It was suffocating, as if there was a rope that wrapped around his neck.


    “Come, let’s eat something.” Maximus kissed her forehead and then brought her food over. He sat down next to her, and when Rania didn’t touch her food, he fed her.


    She was a shell of herself. She was empty, and Maximus didn’t know how much it hurt him, until he realized how he had lost her.


    Rania was out of his grasp now.


    “Say something, will you?” Maximus said, as he fed Rania, but she didn’t even want to open her mouth. She wanted to starve herself to death, since she was not allowed to end her own life.


    Rania didn’t respond to him.


    “Say something.” Maximus put away the te and wiped the stain of food on her lips. The food was barely eaten. “Eat, please.”


    Maximus closed his eyes. Most often than not, he didn’t have this kind of patience, but with Rania, he endured it.


    “Rania, please.” Maximus then did something that was expected. He bit the meat and then chewed on it before he fed her with his mouth. He forced her to swallow it down.


    This action got Rania’s attention, her eyes shed with shock, which made Maximus became even more eager to do it. At least, he got a reaction out of her, not a nk expression.


    “If you don’t want to eat it, I will do it this way.”


    Rania pressed her lips, she met his eyes.


    “Don’t you dare to ignore me.” Maximus closed his eyes, the words slipped from his mouth. He didn’t mean to be harsh with her. “You need to eat. I don’t want you to get sick.”


    Maximus then did the same thing again, and Rania’s struggle meant nothing to him, as he held her hands on top of her head, while his other hand gripped her chin, and he fed her in the same way.


    Rania thrashed her body, and she identally kicked the te away, the crashing sound echoed in the room.


    The meat managed to be swallowed, but with the te was scattered on the floor, Maximus had to get a new


    one.


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    But, because he couldn’t leave Rania alone in this room, he mindlink one of the warriors to bring extra inea into the room.


    “That’s right, be angry with me. Hit me. Scorn me. I will take everything. Maximus caressed her check, <b>but </b>Ramia bit his hand down


    She didn’t hold back when she bit him, but Maximus only furrowed his brows, as if it was only an inconvenience.


    Instead, he started to caress her hair. “Good. Let out your anger.” He smiled, as though Rania was doing something that was worth to be praised of.


    Maximus preferred this side of Rania more than the one without feeling.


    In the end, when Rania didn’t get the reaction that she wanted, she pushed Maximus away, and hugged herself. She started to rock her body back and forth tofort herself.


    This… she did it again.


    And when the food was there, Rania refused to ate half of the meat, because she didn’t want Maximus to pull the same trick again.


    After that, she fell asleep.


    Rania slept throughout the night, and when she woke up, it was almost sunrise. She found Maximus was sleeping next to her.


    Therefore, slowly she got out of the bed, and then walked toward the balcony. She sat down on the floor to stare at the beautiful sun on the surface of the sea. She basked in its morning glow.


    Meanwhile, Maximus watched her from the bed, he could only see her back, but that was enough. He was woken up every time Rania made a move, so obviously he would know when she got out of the bed.


    But, as long as she was safe, he would be fine whatever she wanted to do.


    However, Rania ended up sitting there for hours. She ate her breakfast, but that was it. She didn’t move, even when the scorching sunlight hit her.


    “Come here, get inside, you will get sick if you are under the direct sun too much,” Maximus said, he lifted her body in his arms, and he expected her to fight him, but she didn’t do that.


    Rania simply stared at the distance. She was out of his reach again…


    “Do you want to walk in the beach in the evening?” Maximus asked her, but she didn’t give him any answer.


    Patience. All he needed was patience.


    ***


    Den’s mind was a mess. He couldn’t think straight after the secret meetingst night.


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    “I shouldn’t have considered it at all.” Den murmured to himself. He felt like he was going crazy. He scratched his head as he was reying his conversation with Killian.


    20


    That was right. Killian had sneaked out and asked for the secret meeting, knowing the civil war was going to happen within a few days.


    ‘I want her.‘


    That was what Killian said. He wanted Rania.


    He had lived in the pce for long enough time to understand the situation. After all, as a spy, he needed to read the situation quickly.


    And now, he got a grasp with the fact that Den had never liked Rania. He saw her as a burden, and Killian came to offer him taking away the burden.<fn736e> Fresh chapters posted on findnovel</fn736e>


    ‘Give her to me, since you have no use for her. It will be a win win solution for both of us. We can still fight. This deal has nothing to do with our battle.’


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