---- harsh and biting.


    Alexia recoiled, her breath hitching.


    "I''m not trying to" "You have been nothing but a baggage.


    You have been slowing me down all this time!"he interrupted, his tone colder than ever.


    Her lips trembled, but she held his gaze.


    "T''ll keep up.


    Tl stay out of your way.


    Just dont leave me here....with them." Damien''s jaw tightened.


    [lis gaze flicked briefly to the men before settling back on her, and for a brief moment, something flickered in his eyessomething softer, something unspoken.


    But it was gone as quickly as it came.


    "You''ll be fine," he said curtly.


    This world doesn''t revolves around you.


    Stop giving yourself too much importance.


    have already wasted enough of my time on someone as stupid as you.


    ---- Chapter 439 But I don''t feel safe- Thats not my fucking problem dammit! You will live.


    Ie turned and walked away without another word, the sound of his boots on the rocky ground echoing in the cavern and Alexia stood frozen, watching his figure disappear into the light.


    Her heart sank as silence filled the cave, and she felt the weight of three unfamiliar gazes settle on her.


    She knew he didn''t like her.


    But she just realised that he hated her.


    Just like everyone else.


    Of course why would he want to carry a baggage when he can throw it aside any second.


    Why would he help her and care for her when her on own people never did? Her safety...


    her life is not his problem.


    He is right.


    ---- He already did enough.


    She should have been content with it.


    She was being greedy again.


    Greedy for some warinth...


    for care.


    You wound us, sweetheart.


    We aren''t that bad.


    That same man with a cut on his brow, drawled to chuckle , his sound low and mocking and Alexia watches the other men join theugh.


    With a wounded heart and cracked courage, she drops down in a corner of the cave and hugs her legs to her chest.


    Her gaze stays fixated on the burning mes.


    Don''t worry.


    We will take good care of you.


    Right, John? The man licks his lips to wink at her.


    Totally.


    We will make your stay a pleasant one.


    Thunder cracks in the sky outside and Alexia feels ---- something crawling on her skin...


    disgust.


    Their eyes.


    They looked like they had been deprived of something for so long and now finally they got it Looking away, she stares at her naked bruised feet and presses her feets thumbs together.


    The sound of raindrops pelting on the ground outside, echoes around.


    Tt was a thunderstorm.


    Chaotic.


    Just like her meaningless life.


    The world doesn''t revolve around you.


    Stop giving yourself too much importance.


    His words did hurt.


    But they were true.He is right.


    No one cares if she lives or dies in this world which is already on the brink of destruction.


    People have been changed into monsters, humanity is dead and those few alive are waiting for their death.


    No one knows if they will even watch the sunrise next day.


    She should be thankful Her existence may bemeaningless to the universe.