Chapter 325: Ink, Blood, and Other Misunderstandings
Orion stared at her like she had personally betrayed him.
"Shorty… what is—" Orion shook his head, then readjusted his words.
"Is this," he asked slowly, lifting the book again as though it might bite him, "what you enjoy reading?"
Sophia rolled her eyes and leaned forward, plucking the book neatly from his hands. "Give it back. You're being dramatic."
"I am not being dramatic," he said, affronted. "I just read about someone being eaten alive."
She settled back against the pillows, reopening the book as if that explained everything. "That happened at that point in the story. It's not the whole novel."
"That is not a comforting clarification."
Sophia glanced up at him, unimpressed. "You're acting like this is the first time you're seeing something like this."
"In a novel? Yes, yes it is. In real life…" He shrugged. "Not exactly the same context, but something similar, yes."
"So?"
