Chapter 137: Cain.

“How bad is it?”

There’s silence in my cell.

An almost deafening silence that has remained constant for the past two days.

My first day here, I could only hear the sound of my heart and the inhales and exhales I took, but now that silence has been broken, and I don't know if she’s asking me about herself or my current situation.

Adelaide smells… provoking.

The sort of scent that would send males for miles and miles into heat. There’s a tropicality to the scent that wafts off her, and my mind shouldn’t stray there but it does.

I have to look away from her before I can regain some control of my thoughts and I regret the words the moment I say them.

“Why are you here?”

The temperature in my cold cell seems to drop a thousand degrees lower and the wall behind me feels chill down to the last brick. I hear Adelaide chuckle.

I hear the hurt she hides within that chuckle and I feel her presence as she moves closer to grab the bars.

There’s a calmness to her voice when she speaks. A