CHAPTER 39: BACK OFF!

SILAS' POV:

"I hate you!"

I can't see her face with my head forcefully swung the other way but I hear the tremble in her words.

I'm speechless at first, still shocked from the sudden assault. It stings but not my face.

Something else stings inside me.

I slowly turn to her wide-eyed, clutching onto my cheeks. My eyes remain bewildered, watching her tremble.

She doesn't even dare to look up to me while biting at her lower lips.

"W-what?"

I don't believe what I've ...