Chapter 1045: Reasons

"What do you mean I can never leave well enough alone? It's a valid question, Anput! You seem to be deflecting any sort of inquiry and attempting to redirect my attention from Yasmin through-!"

"That's exactly what I mean damnit! I've already said to stop fucking prying into this, so why do you keep doing just that?! Why can't you just take that as it is?!"

Anput glared at me as she snarled that, the Jackalkin's face twisting as her anger got the better of her, and that vitriol she seemed to harbor towards me for this moment was enough to make me flinch; not out of fear of being harmed, or out of genuine worry that she was going to do something, but instead at the surprise I felt at actually being looked at that way by one of my lovers.