Chapter 191 - Herbivores

Persephone followed Callum's gaze and swallowed the piece of bacon that got stuck in her throat when she noticed Santiago's piercing gaze settling on her face. However, he didn't say or do anything. He just walked to the kitchen and made his own coffee before taking a chair between Callum and Persephone. 

None of them spoke from the time their gaze fell on him to him sitting between them. 

Why were they feeling guilty? 

As if their behaviour didn't bother him, Santiago turned his head to look at her and found her plate loaded with bacon and eggs with no vegetables in sight. He simply asked her, "This was cooked by callum?"

Persephone blinked her eyes. "How do you know?"

"You can't cook, dear wife," Santiago replied as a matter of fact. "Except for the stuff you mix with Nutella of course." He had noticed that she had done another experiment with Nutella once again. 

What was this woman's obsession with that spread? 

"We could have ordered from outside?" Persephone responded. "And before calling my food just some stuff, you better remember you liked that too." 

Santiago wasn't saying that he didn't like what she made that time. He was just mentioning the obvious."I'm just saying because you promised that you will not have any chocolate this week. Did you forget?"

"Santiago, I was hungry," Persephone said in frustration. "I don't know how to cook. I can't even offer food this early. What I was supposed to do? I was so hungry that I couldn't breathe. I waited for you or the boys to wake up. But nobody woke up. And now that I finally have some delicious food, you are complaining." 

"I'm not complaining," Santiago sighed. He didn't know how to talk with her without ending the argument. "I'm just saying Persephone that you need to eat some healthy food. Too much chocolate and meat is not good for you. And don't overeat too." Pointing his finger at the plate of food, he said,"This food is cooked by him. Only Callum has a glaring hate for vegetables." 

"I just avoid things I don't like,"Callum shrugged. 

"I don't like vegetables,"Persephone told Santiago.

"Since when?" Santiago raised his brows. 

"Since the time you guys started giving me cow's food," She rendered him speechless. She looked at Callum and complained. "Do you know they feed me what herbivores eat? And if they give me some meat or eggs, it's bland. No spice, nothing. I don't even remember when I had pizza last time. Growing up I hated Italian food because of how often I used to have it. But now? I crave the spicy food my mama used to make. People of this house don't treat me like a human anymore." 

Callum looked at her in pity as if he couldn't imagine her pain. 

"You are extremely dramatic, Persephone," Santiago uttered. 

Persephone had a look of disbelief on her face. "I'm pregnant, Santiago. You are making a pregnant woman suffer for food. I am telling you that you will meet your retribution soon." 

"Not soon, baby. My retribution is sitting next to me," He snickered at her. 

"Ridiculous," Persephone muttered under her breath and grabbed a bite of bacon. Only good food will calm her down. 

"You are not allowed to eat anything chocolate or sugary now," Santiago once again instructed Persephone. 

"You can't order me around," She retorted. 

"I can't but someone else can," Santiago reminded her with a kind smile. "Do you need me to give Valencia a call?"

"Asshole," Persephone muttered under her breath and started eating breakfast, completely ignoring his presence. No, she didn't know this man at all. 

"Did you talk to Nash?" Callum asked him. He was enjoying their banter but decided not to encourage them.So, he changed the topic. 

Santiago sighed, wondering why he had to deal with brats everywhere. "You think he is ready to talk to me? It's enough that Valencia only broke my laptop yesterday, not my face." 

Persephone's ears caught the information but she didn't show anything on her face. She was only chewing her food, not hearing anything at all. 

This Nash they were telling was the same man who saved her? She remembered Valencia saying her pursuer's name was Nash too. Could it be that he was the same Nash that her husband was acquainted with?

It sounded fishy. Chew. Chew. She had to gather more information. Chew. Chew. But how? 

Then, suddenly her gaze fell on Callum and an evil smile bloomed on her face. 

"Aren't you being too strict on them? They are adults, Santiago. They had their right to chose the one they liked, '' Callum said, trying to make Santiago see another angel. But hell if it was so easy to convince this villain. 

"Nash is an adult?" Santiago snorted. "Since when?" 

He had his fair share of squandering and womanising days. But he would never be able to compete with Nash on this criteria. At least, he could count on his fingers the number of women he had been with. But Nash? The dude had no number. 

How could he imagine his younger sister who had his dick in almost all the socialites of Maisean? This was just about socialites and the number of maids and palace staff Nash had fucked had no number. 

Nash was childish, impulsive and rash. The man who didn't value his own life. How was he good for Valencia and her son? 

Santiago might not have this attitude if Valencia was like a normal good girl falling for a bad boy like Nash. He knew that Nash could be a charming bastard sometimes and he was quite a catch for many women. But for Valencia? Was he a good man? 

Valencia had her emotional baggage. She was a mother of eight years. And she was still Cameron's guardian. 

Cameron would be an adult in a few months but still he needed her. Valencia had to uproot her life in this country and move with Nash. 

There were so many reasons why they weren't good for each other yet he couldn't help but feel bad for being the factor that was stopping his best friend and sister from uniting.