Chapter 122 Dale's Discovery

Lilith's P.O.V

I had just begun to immerse myself at the moment, feeling the intensity of what was happening around us, when suddenly I noticed that Adams was pulling away from me. Just a moment before, we had been enveloped in a thick silence, a pause that was filled with so many unspoken promises and emotions that seemed to flutter just at the edge of being revealed.

But in the blink of an eye he stepped back as if my very presence were something unbearable, something that had burned him.

The shock of that sudden distance hurt me deeply, igniting a storm of confusion and pain that surged within my chest, raw and difficult to ignore. I couldn’t help but wonder what had caused him to react in such a way.

The longing and desire that had been shimmering just behind my eyelids now felt tainted as if an unsettling chill had settled in the air around us. It wrapped around me, pulling me back to the harsh reality I had wanted to escape, making it difficult to breathe.

I could almost sense t