chapter 42

Abbie Entering the kitchen, I grab a cup and fill it with milk, deciding on milk and cookies. I am too tired to cook, and the stove is temperamental, only working when it wants to. Dipping my cookie in my milk, I bite into it. The sugary sweetness makes me giddy. Sugar always has that effect on me. Kade says it’s because I’m not used to having it. After I irritated him with my constant talking on the way here from the bag of clouds Gannon gave me before I left, he tossed them out the window and snapped at me to keep quiet because he had a headache. I haven’t had anything sweet since, except for artificial sugar in my coffee that Kade brought the last time he came here. He said it was a treat for being good, but it didn’t even taste like sugar and had a funny aftertaste. Just the reminder of him getting upset makes me tense. What if he comes and sees me with them? Maybe I shouldn’t have anymore? I don’t want to annoy my mate and make him leave when he rarely visits me as it is. I place