章 815: Eat with me

"Are you hungry?" she heard him ask in a gentle voice. She still couldn't quite get use to all that gentleness. Just hearing it made her think that she was hallucinating if not for the fact that she was hearing him say it with her own two ears.

Iryz shook her head immediately. "I'll eat later. Not feeling that hungry yet."

Another silence passed but Iryz still kept her face buried into her palms, not wanting to face him directly.

"Iryz…" he spoke. "I've brought the special ointment with me."

"Ointment?"

"Yes. The one I told you I'll get from Lilith."

Iryz slowly dropped her hands and looked up at him. There was a small smile on his face as he showed her a small jar in his hand. Was this the ointment that he had told her could remove the scars from her torture?