Chapter 104: Adelaide.

“Lord Lyros?”

A tentative statement full of careful caution.

“What?”

Goosebumps run across the length of my arm and pretty much on every other spare inch of skin on me.

The word is soft. So soft that it doesn’t sound like something he would say.

“What’s…. happening right now? I’m confused.”

He raises his head up to peer at me from half open eyes. I can only see the bright blue of his eyes this up close and it threatens to pull me in and never let me go. They’re like blue pools of soft light.

“I am Lord Lyros of the north and you are Lady Adelaide, my wife.”

My heart stops and a sharp pain cuts through my chest, like someone has just stabbed me with a knife.

“Your what?”

“I dislike repeating myself Adelaide. We’re going to be spending a lot of time together.”

My very being revolts at the idea.

I set myself to imagining it. Waking up in the same bed as him and coming back here everyday, to meet him waiting and hoping for something.

“Don’t fool yourself little wolf. If I say