Chapter 48 Aria

• I believed he had left to continue his work. He said he was going. But my heart felt like it was in my mouth as I heard him clear his throat from behind me. I turned my head, to find the intense gaze of those big blue eyes of his looking right at me. A gaze full of questions…
• “You forget something?” I tried to dismiss everything he could possibly have just heard. I had literally been begging the Moon Goddess to come back to me. Telling her nothing made sense to me anymore. What if he had heard me? I could only begin to imagine what he would be thinking if he had...
• “I believe it is you that has the forgetting issue.” Rocco spoke rather sharply, taking me by surprise. This was not the sweet and kind man of literally moments ago. He sounded irritated. Annoyed. And, I have to say, I did not like the tone of voice he was using with me.