Chapter 130: Adelaide.

Cain escorts me out of the room after helping me tie the green ribbon into my hair.

My heart is pounding and my pulse is racing but it’s okay. This isn’t the end of the world.

So Raymel is still angry that I stole the staff from his father’s manor, I am not surprised. He bashed my face in because of any of that, yet I can't remember any of it.

I let my legs take me through the hall and down the stairs while my brain runs. It’s not enough that Rayme gets to know we’re after something, he’ll try to stop us from getting it, or try to get it himself.

His experience with Lyros is still cataloged in some part of my brain. The wife who never loved him but loved Lyros instead and who Lyros killed, since he does that and no one can stand against him.

“Has Lyros been acting weird to you?”

I turn to Cain and find his eyes shimmering faintly but it stops the minute he turns to me. A frown lines his face as he blinks.

“What?”

He sounds out of breath and that makes me frown.

“I asked if yo