After the SSS Beast Slave Bites the Hand That Saved Him, I Choose to Watch Him Bleed Chapter 09

After the SSS Beast Slave Bites the Hand That Saved Him, I Choose to Watch Him Bleed Chapter 09

They argued for a while. 

Audrey got so mad she slapped him. She pointed 

at his nose and yelled, “You ungrateful jerk. I did 

you a favor taking you in. You’d be dead without 

me, you know that?” 

She stormed off, leaving Gideon behind. 

Gideon lay in bed alone for a long time. 

Late that night, he dragged that leg and limped to 

my room. 

For him, asking me for help was probably 

humiliating. 

His face said it all. He looked awful. 

The thing I used to beg for, he was now offering 

like a tip. 

“This is your fault.” 

He said it out of nowhere. 

“You could’ve just picked up my herbs while your 

were out there. Then none of this would’ve 

happened.” 

“And if you’d spoken up when Audrey used the 

wrong stuff, you really think things would be this 

bad?” 

Gideon’s gaze slipped past me and stopped inside. 

the room. 

He saw the extra bed in my room. 

It had a soft mattress topper, a fluffy comforter 

piled on top. 

Gideon’s eyes lit up. He was sure that bed was for 

him. 

In the past life, I’d begged him almost every day to 

move out of that drafty side room and into mine. 

“Come on.” When I didn’t move, Gideon stepped 

closer. “Look at my leg. Audrey put some junk on it 

and the wound is rotting.” 

Gideon’s brain wasn’t working right. He still 

thought I was the same as before. That I was still 

crazy about him and would do anything he 

wanted. 

He was sure that if he gave me even a little bit of 

softness, I’d jump. 

I laughed. 

“Didn’t you say you didn’t want my help?” 

“You…” 

His face changed. He swallowed whatever he was 

about to say. 

“Isn’t all this just to make me apologize?” 

Gideon looked at me, annoyed. 

“It’s a few words. Are you really going to drag this 

out?” 

He gritted his teeth. 

“Fine.” 

“I was wrong. I’m sorry.” 

“Okay?” 

His chin was up. His eyes were full of defiance 

and bitterness. 

The apology came out like he was squeezing it between his teeth. 

I didn’t stop smiling. 

When he saw that smile, Gideon looked like he’d 

been slapped. 

“What are you laughing at?” 

He grabbed the wall and tried to push past me. 

into the room. 

“There. I said it. Now help me in.” 

“Treat my leg so we can go to sleep. That bed in the annex is impossible.” 

I stood in the doorway and didn’t budge. 

“Gideon, when did I ever ask you to apologize?” 

“I don’t think I’ve said a single word like that since 

we came back.” 

“Isn’t all this just in your head?” 

He froze. 

His eyes slid past me again. 

And saw Theron in the room. 

Theron set down the clothes he’d been folding. His 

whole body went tense. 

If Gideon tried anything, he’d be on him in a 

second. 

Gideon looked at Theron. The color drained from 

his face. His hands curled into fists. 

“You were saying something about letting me 

touch your ears?” 

I walked over to Theron and put my hand on top of 

his head. 

Theron immediately shoved his ears into my palm. His tail wagged so hard the wheelchair rocked. 

I turned to look at Gideon. 

“You really think…” I rubbed Theron’s ears, then reached down and touched his tail. “…that I’m missing anything right now?”