Verity's pov

The silence between us thickened as he continued to stare at me. My eyes moved to focus on anything but him. His presence was still very much intimidating despite his efforts to not come off as such.

He sat there, his body perfectly still, but I could feel the gears in his mind turning. That calculating gaze of his hadn’t shifted since I failed to give him a respect about how we were to communicate after the revealing of me being mute. I tried not to squirm under his ...