Elara’s POV “What is happening to us?” I had to ask. “Us?” He asked as though the word should not be used between him and me. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he added. I broke the silence by asking him what was happening to us. Ever since we’ve been in the car, he hasn’t said a word to me, but he has been speaking to the driver. If Gideon were here with us, he would have spoken to him. Since he said has no idea of what I was talking about, I wouldn’t go on with the conversation. He had been acting funny, but he kept pretending as though it was normal for it to be. The previous day, he asked if I wanted to drop the task. From how he spoke, it seemed like he had gotten another candidate for it. I told him I wasn’t interested in dropping it, not when I was almost done with i

