Chapter 32

Rune's POV

“What happened to your husband?” I asked.

She stood and stared at me that I feared that I had opened an old wound.

“Where are my manners,would you like some tea?” She asked, rising up to set a kettle on the stove.

“Y-yes please,” I stuttered. Her unusual change in mood made me uncomfortable and I did not want to resort to defense.

“You know I was a very beautiful young lady one time. Then I got proposed and married to by the love of my life, Octavia. We remained that way, in love and having only each other until we had a child. He named her Lyra,a very beautiful name from a graceful young woman,” she said as she turned to drop two tea bags into the kettle.

“what happened?” I asked.

“She happened,” she responded darkly.

“He was my husband, he was not supposed to be shared,” she continued.

“Even with your own daughter?” I asked with my voice almost a whisper.

“Even with his own daughter,” she said with a force that made me flinch.

The whistling sound coming from the ket