Chapter 162: Adelaide.

Queen Diane helps me hold my hair back as I retch. Sea water gushes out of my mouth and what follows is relief.

I always feel horrible when I vomit, yet this makes my body feel freed. Something in me chills as I come to a conclusion but that isn’t what matters right now.

“Someone’s been using the Lycan’s flame.”

I look up at the queen and blink back the tears at the side of my eyes. My body is still a body after all, but what I saw just now….

“You’ve known all this while haven’t you?”

She shakes her head and rises. The Queen I see in those memories and the one who stands in front of me are so vastly different that I almost feel scammed.

Where is the fierceness I saw in her eyes? The pride of being able to command spirits of every shape and size? The assurance of capability she exuded?

“I suspected something like that was happening too, but I know it isn’t. No one could have used the Lycan’s flame, not after what I did.”

Something in me curls at her words. It doesn’t just curl,