“This was the first place I tasted that poison and I thought it was baby medicine.”
Those words didn't help at all.
“I thought I would get pregnant,” he said with a chuckle.
“You are so ridiculous.” Her voice was laced with a chuckle and a kind of fear.
It sounded jittery.
That fear shouldn't be there, this was Valerick and not a stranger but she knew she had done things that deserved the existence of that fear, and so she stood still, her heart racing while she waited for what he would do.
“And you have some audacity to poison me.” His hands settled on her arms, while he pressed his face into her hair. “Some bravery to poison yourself too.” She could hear a smile in his voice.