Chapter 185: Cain.

I move so fast blood spurts down my chin but I hit Adelaide just in time that we go down together and I take the brunt of the flames behind her instead.

She lets out an oof sound and the scent of her wafts into my nose. I don’t have to worry that I have hit some other brown-haired woman because I know it’s her.

I know it’s Adelaide and I know she’s here. She’s back….. But she’s not supposed to be.

“Cain!”

Adelaide’s power shrouds us and I feel the world shift. Blinding white light flashes past my eyes one moment and the next, I can’t hear the sounds of Rafie’s capital or Lyros and the castle’s warriors preparing for another attack.

I’m only distinctly aware of the sound of a crashing sea and the whine of the wind whipping around us. What I'm fully aware of is the person beneath me.

Adelaide feels warm, and this close to her I can see the brown caramel of her eyes and the care that’s in them for me.

I can’t bring myself to look away and I know she feels it too.

She doesn’t just feel it