Episode 45

Landa's POV

"You dare run away from home all these while? Do you know the gravity of what you've done?" Lord Xota rose from his seat, erected behind the window. "Someone who's supposed to be a goddess?!"

As soon as I stepped foot into that hall, I was graced with his violent anger. He was always good at making me feel less valuable. And even at those times I was still in the suffocating space in my mother's womb. I could feel his deadly hatred that went out to me before I was born.

"Metoline isn't my home. I only figured it out when I was still in my mother's womb, which felt like I was in there forever by the way."

"You!"

Seeing that raging ruler took heavy steps toward me, my legs dragged backward. "I didn't run away like you said, Father. I was catapulted there somehow." My voice suddenly cracked.

Fear ate deeper into me as my father leaned on me and sucked my scent for quite a few times. When he was done, he took his hardened face and shoved it into mine. Holding it there.

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