Chapter 410 - Denied?

Razeal narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at Maria, his gaze steady but now carrying a sharper edge, not anger exactly, but a quiet scrutiny, as if he was trying to dissect her intentions rather than react to them, because what she had just said.. what she was asking of him didn't align with anything logical in his mind, and for a brief moment, a thought actually crossed him, absurd yet not entirely dismissible, Is she… a masochist or something? because the way she was pushing him, the way she was deliberately provoking him, it felt less like guilt and more like she was trying to force a reaction out of him, to drag him into something he didn't even want to step into? Or just want to get hurt by him as to fulfill whatever her guilt is..