Chapter 78: Cain.

"I don't want to ride with Adelaide."

Lyros looks up from the documents in his hand and cocks an eyebrow at me.

"Why?"

The question is simple enough. A simple question that should warrant a simple answer but I can't feel that answer coming forth.

"I just don't want to ride with her. Can she ride with one of the other warriors instead?"

"The ones who hate her or the ones who want to fuck her?"

I want to control the emotion that surges up in me, I try to, but I can't and soon my eyes are glowing again. My surroundings melt and become the forest while I sit up in a tree, watching as flowers bloom, and butterflies flap their wings and move in lazy yet contented motions. I watch as the skies fill with rain and when it pours it's ice cold against my skin, yet there's a fire burning in my heart.

A heat raging within me.

A flame I cannot deny.

"Cain?"

I hiss and step back before Lyros can place his palm on me because his presence burns. He frowns and regards me suspiciously.

"Are yo