ODETTE'S POV:
I couldn't believe what he was doing for me. I was his prisoner, his revenge, but he emptied out an entire store and theater for us to be alone.
Artemis in a Jimmy Johns what is going on in his head?
He's hot. He's cold. He's death. He's safety.
"You like your popcorn with extra butter, right?" He asked me causally at the cashier counter.
Here was a ruthless alpha king who not just hours ago, murdered a man in cold blood in broad daylight.
And here he is asking if I want extra fucking butter?
"Yeah, Let's be honest it's the only way to eat theater popcorn. Drenched in a layer of trans fat." I laughed. Kalvin always gave me shit about my diet. He would say I needed to stay fit to stay at the top of my class. He was like my dad in the way he'd encourage me. But it would get on my nerves sometimes.
But here was a man offering all the butter in the world.
"No kidding." He laughed a little. And not the kind of hollow chuckle I usually got. No, this was real.
