Chapter Ninety-Six

Zyrielle's POV

I plopped on the settee as she had suggested and smiled at the beautiful aging woman. She was a beau in her days I could tell from the length of her hair and the richness. Not a lot of people maintained such exquisite charm till this age.

"Might I say before you begin that you are one of the most beautiful people I have come across in a long while," I said with a smile that could soften her up.

She began to laugh at me, but I caught a pretty blush sitting on her cheeks as she probably thought of my words. "It's been long since anyone has called me beautiful. Thank you for being so sweet." She praised me yet her sadness took over instantly.

I would never understand how someone as beautiful as this would be going through such pain, and no one would deem it fit to wipe it away. Why would they even act this way to her in the first place? She looked like a very sweet woman and that was why Rain respected her.

"Do not pick up my son's mannerisms. You are already dissectin