Chapter 195: Adelaide.

I cry and I call on every bit of power inside me to manifest. I want it to save me and correct the damage Lyros has done because…… he’s done a lot of it.

I look at Safira again and she’s heaving quite heavily. Her body is weak, her eyes are constantly closing, and I don't know what to do.

And Rhys… he can’t speak. Not because he doesn’t want to but because he can’t. His tongue has been cut out and the pain that must have caused him.

“I’ll do it.”

Cain’s body releases that cracking sound again and I can't bring myself to look at him. If I do, I don't know what I'd do.

I might just decide to kill all of us and get it done and over with. Doing that would mean ending us all, but it would also put their blood on my hands. Them, my friends. I can’t do that.

Lyros meets my eyes and I wipe the tears dropping from them. I know what he wants.

He doesn’t want me. He wants the happiness he thinks I will bring him. Lyros isn’t driven by love or the need to be loved.

He’s past that now. What he wa