Chapter 220: Adelaide.

Lysandra tells me all about how someone like me came to the fortress one day.

She tells me of how she stood at the gates, waiting for a rendezvous with Rhys and then she saw me, bound, unconscious, being carried towards the compound as the unruly warriors looked between the folds of my skirt.

She says she assumed I was trying to get trouble for myself right away because I wasn't wearing any underwear. "And who forgets to put on underwear when they're headed to the home of a Lycan King? I just assumed that it was either you wanted the attention, and the warriors were going to give it to you."

"Right from the moment you came, weird things started happening. For one, Cain was hit twice in one day.""

When she says his name it's like something in me sings with want.

"Lyros had you starved for seven days on end and on the eight, i heard you were almost assaulted again just after you were fed by the guard at your door. Cain saved you, took you to the healer, had you fed and healed, and in r