Chapter 93
Alessia’s POV
For the past few days, I’ve been spending my mornings with my father and my afternoons with Jake.
Hence why I have a platter of junk food in one hand and a pile of DVDs in the other.
Jake isn’t allowed to do anything other than lying on his bed so I’ve been visiting him with snacks he isn’t meant to have. We watch movies throughout the day, catching up with his list that he says we have to finish. Today, we’re heading for the Vampire Diaries series. Surprisingly, there’s someone on Earth who hasn’t watched that series yet.
I push open his door with the heel of my foot because both my hands are currently occupied, and force my way into the room.
Jake has his head on the wall with pain etched on his face. His expression changes as soon as he notices my presence. I’ve been noticing that he does that more often, as though he’s trying to reassure me by putting on a false facade.
Smiling at him, I walk into the room and place the goods in my hand on the bedside table. “How are you feeling today?” I ask, holding his gaze and daring him to spew his lies to me.
He smiles a cheeky smile. “I was in a bit of pain but I feel so much better now that my girlfriend is
beside me.”
My eyes widen and my head whips to the opened door. Thankfully no one is outside the door.
“Keep quiet,” I say, shushing him with a finger on my lips as I quickly rush over to close the door before someone overhears the idiot. “Caden is going to have your head on a stake if he hears you.”
He simply rolls his eyes, that nasty smile still present on his lips. “What is he going to do to me? Kill me?” He snaps a finger in the air, as though he just remembered something. “Oh, yeah. I almost forgot that I’m already dying.” He starts laughing but I just stare at him blankly, not finding his joke funny in any way.
I don’t want to give him false hope by saying that there might still be a chance for him to get the antidote but I also don’t want to hear him talk about dying in that manner. It’s something that has
been set in stone.
“That was a good joke and you know it,” he accuse, still letting out soft chuckles.
Rolling my eyes, I move over to his bed and sit in the free space beside him. “How are you feeling?” I ask, getting a peep at his real emotion when he lets down a gulp but then it’s gone before it even settles on his face.
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Tm ok, but I’ll feel even better if my girlfriend gives me a kiss. He turns his cheeks to me, fishing for something that he isn’t going to get. I take a snack bar from the bowl of junk food I brought along with me and spa n k him with it.
His eyes fly open and he gasps at me, a mock expression of shock on his face. “Why does my girlfriend keep treating me so harshly?” He pouts, jutting his bottom lip and taking the appearance of a constipated cow.
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I roll my eyes at him, forcing my smile to stay down. I can’t indulge his behavior. If he thinks that I find what comes out of my mouth even a bit funny then he’s never going to stop saying stup i d s hi t like this.
“I told you to stop calling me that,” I chid, standing up and taking the first DVD of the series with me and walking around the bed to the control system. I had brought up the suggestion that we should simply stream the series on Netflix but Jake had been insistent on doing it the old-fashioned way. Hence why I’m on my knees and struggling to get the hang of the f u c ki n g control system!
“Stopping calling you what?” He asks mischievously.
1 roll my eyes, smacking the back of the DVD player and wishing it was Jake’s head. “You know what I mean. Is it supposed to take this long to load?
“You mean my girlfriend?”
I don’t have to look at him to know that he has a stupi d grin stretched across his face. “Yes. Stop calling me that. I’m not your girlfriend. I’m just your pretend girlfriend.”
After Jake had blurted out his proposition, we had come to an agreement that we’d play pretend. That way he can get the experience of what having a mate is like without actually doing anything serious. It’s pathetic but it was what he wanted and there’s no way that I’m saying no to him when I’m the reason he’s on that bed.
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I smile triumphantly when it starts playing and quickly walk back to the bed to slide under the cover with Jake.
*Come closer. I want to cuddle with my girlfriend,” Jake whines.
I roll my eyes but do as he says, shifting closer to him until I can feel his body heat radiating to my side.
We fall silent as we watch the movie begin. Jake does ask me to pause the movie randomly and explain to him what’s happening but other than that, he isn’t such a bad movie partner.
Halfway through the third series, I hear light snoring from beside me and look over at Jake to find him fast asleep.
He has been falling asleep faster these past few days, the venom wearing him down. I frown as I
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look at the paleness of his skin. His health is deteriorating and there still isn’t an antidote.
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Sighing, I turn off the movie and slip out of bed, taking care not to wake him up. I reach for the duvet and draw it up to his shoulders. Staring at him, I lower my head to his and drop a kiss on his right check, the kiss that he has been h a s s l i n g me for since forever.
Then I walk out of the room and close the door softly behind me.
