Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2360

"Absolutely not! Even in the off chance I wanted to, now I'd have to wait for another opportunity since today your family had plenty of emotions already."

"Ah." Friya replied.

It was a single word, yet it carried the cold of an ice age and all of her scorn and disappointment.

"I see. I'm sorry for interrupting you. What were you saying?"

Nalrond wasn't the most sensitive of men but the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped by dozens of degrees and Friya's glare seemed to be trying to choke him with the power of her mind.

"That with the end of the War of the Griffons, your parents should have no reason to be scared about your future anymore." He cautiously said while offering her tea and cookies that Friya didn't even glance at.

"I say that we let a few days pass, maybe a couple of weeks, and then we can safely break the engagement."

"You want to break the engagement?" She replied in shock.

"Well, yeah." He shrugged. "Your father proposed on your behalf because of the war. This is something your parents wanted, not us. Also, let's be honest. We don't have a future. I can't Awaken whereas you'll live for a thousand years.

"Three thousand, if you become a Harbinger. I'm stuck as a hybrid and I still have no clue about how to merge my two life forces. Our children would be born as forced hybrids without even the choice to pick your side and-"

"Is this because my survival is bound to becoming Faluel's Harbinger?" Friya cut him off. "Because I might lose my free will and a good chunk of my privacy?"

"No." He shook his head. "Faluel is a wonderful person and I'm sure that she'd treat her Harbinger as a partner, not as a slave. I believe that you are in good hands."

"Then is this because you don't feel anything for me? Was this only sex for you? Did meeting my family and living together never mean anything to you?" She said in outrage, clenching her hands so hard that they popped.

"Gods, no! How can you even think that?" Nalrond was as outraged as her, but the pain in Friya's eyes made him realize how bad his words had to sound to her ears.

He gently grabbed her shoulders, taking a deep breath to calm down before speaking.

"Look, I'm not going to beat around the bush any longer. I love you, but I'm not the right guy for you. You need-" A slap to his face cut him short again.

"How can you say that you love me and drop me like a bad habit?" Friya said with eyes veiled with tears.

"I told you already. I'm going to be a decrepit old man before a single of your hair turns grey and I'd pass my hybrid nature on to my children. You deserve-"

A second slap hit him. Just like the previous, it was just as strong as one from a regular woman, showing that even in her fury she didn't want to hurt him.

"I decide who I deserve, jackass! You don't get to choose that for me." She stood right in front of him, grabbing Nalrond from the collar of his shirt.

Friya forced him to bend down and look her in the eyes.

"Yes, I do because it wouldn't be fair to you or your family. They don't need to know the truth about me and there's no point telling them. I'm doing this because I love you and I want to spare you the suffering of seeing me die.

"Of being forced to choose between not having children or watching them die as well. You-"

"I love you too, jackass!" She said with a snarl, never averting her gaze.