Chapter 38

Ezra:

I frowned at Lia’s words before processing the fact that she had burnt her wrist to break the cuffs.

Her eyes were fixed on mine, and it wasn’t until mom walked toward her, wrapping her arms around her shoulders, pushing her to sit on the bed that I snapped out of the sudden daze that I was in.

“Lia, what do you mean that Killian was the one that did this?” Mom asked, looking at Lia whose eyes dropped to her lap.

“I never said that it was Killian who did it. I said, if anyone did anything, it was not my parents. He came to us one night and brought the Dragon’s Eye, despite being sixteen at the time, I was my father’s only heir, and a threat to Killian.” Lia said, looking at mom. “My existence itself was a threat to Killian, and hence why I was always hidden from him. He saw me once and believed that I was a maid, at least, that was what we told him. One of the reasons why he stopped my mother from giving birth, poisoning her whenever she grew pregnant was a story or more spec