Chapter 228: Cain.

Anger makes my teeth crack as Adelaide asks me a question. She looks up at me, uncertainty in her eyes, her expression scared and bleak.

“Would you still love me, if I showed you what Lyros and I have been doing these past few months?”

Something threatens to snap in me but I know what this is.

I’ve seen this before. I’ve done this once.

I nod and Adelaide’s shoulders shudder. I can see how fervently she’s trying to control herself. How ferociously she’s attacking the emotions that are surging forth.

Something’s happened, and when I ask her, she tells me everything.

Trapped in a memory chain of the Lycan King’s making for three months, her magic being the thing he used to fuel that spell, Lyros turned her magic into her trap, and then she tells me what the memories were about. Entire years' worth of memories of her waiting for him patiently in the fortress.

Memories of how he saved her from her pack and brought her to a better life in his care, Memories of how she became his personal p