Chapter 136: Lyros.

She asks the question I've been asking myself for a while now.

Adelaide stands at arm’s reach, the distance between us something that can be closed with a few steps but the look in her eyes making me feel there are leagues and leagues of distance between us.

Her stance is defiant, her eyes twitch from the pain she must be getting from her skull but she stands there, and waits for an answer,

I laugh.

It’s an odd sound, a sound that rings sultry and cracked. Anger flows through me like liquid fire and a strange annoyance rises in me.

“Who are you to ask me that?”

The words come out with an unfamiliar air to them. I feel I am speaking to myself as much as I am speaking to her but my eyes are firmly on her.

“What right do you have to ask me if I want you, Adelaide?”

I step closer and she doesn’t move away. She doesn’t back down.

Good.

I stop in front of her smaller frame and peer into her eyes. Soft brown eyes that would consume the icy blue of mine if they could.

My magic caresses her m