Chapter 177: Adelaide.

My parents never loved me.

This memory pulls me in with the force of a tide and I cannot resist it. I see my mother standing and looking at something with scorn in her eyes. She stands over a cot and I can tell she’s looking down at a child. I can tell she’s looking down at me because she’s always looked at me like that.

With her lips curling into a half sneer and her face lined with a degree of animosity she has sustained ever since I've known her. Her face always seemed set in stone from the moment I met her and I guess this is the reason.

She’s hated me since my birth, and when she turns, my father comes into view.

“Where is she?”

His voice booms in the room and my mother shakes her head and sighs.

“Like I'd know. That woman has been all over the place since last night. Is that what a shaman is supposed to do? Walk around and never actually be here to read the fate of the child?”

“The child is our daughter.”

My breath catches in my throat at my father’s words but my mother simply s