Chapter 58: Cain.

"Is she still in her room?"

Leah nods and shakes the contents of the bottle in her hand.

"Refused to come out for the past day and a half now."

"Even for food?"

She chuckles at my question and nods.

"Even for food, Cain. According to the maids, her response was "I'm eating enough right now already!" "

The way Leah makes a perfect impression of her should make me smile. Mere conversation about her should make me feel like the world is brighter, but it doesn't.

Instead, I feel cold inside at the thought of her. Leah soaks the bandages in the substance she's been shaking all this while.

The sharp tang of the antiseptic fills the air and I flinch again, like I always did when I was a child. This always happens when Lyros administers one of his beatings.

There's something about his ability that clashes with mine and hence the result being me feeling out of depth for a while.

If Leah notices it, she doesn't say anything. She presses the bandages to the nasty wound on my shoulder and I bite