Chapter 23

Cassandra’s POV

After the long hours of planting, we all retire to the same place we had the bonfire for dinner. Gray and Ray disappear at some point while Lydia introduces me to the few people she met; they are friendly people but want I really want to do is go back to the tent where I can be left alone. My social skills were never any good before I left the pack.

“Hiding in a corner again, are we?” I look up to see Gerta, she smiles at me and I give her a small one back, “You are very talented at avoiding association, do you know that?” she says as she sits down beside me.

I merely smile response, “Don’t act humble now, you did it a lot to me at the apartment,” I give her a sheepish smile.

“Are you really the owner of that apartment building?” I ask her, but before she can answer I ask again. “Why did you keep trying if you knew I was avoiding you?”

Gerta smiles with a shrug, “Because the first day you arrived at the building, you had this lost look about you like your entire life h