Chapter 109

AVERY

Random memories keep appearing in my vision.

I watch as amidst the conversation, Agrona spills wine on Aleister’s clothes and he goes to take a bath there. Nothing feels out of the ordinary. It’s as if they had done it a thousand times before, with no awkwardness and no questions asked.

Then, I am there.

Fuming, hurt, and red-eyed.

In Aleister’s sight, I appear someone like that—a woman consumed with rage, so lost that she doesn’t care what others think or feel.

A moment later, I find myself in Aleister’s office. Draven goes on and on about the possibility of me being a spy just like the other spies of my brother. He is eager to prove that I have an agenda against Aleister like my brother must have. After all, I can have a change of heart but never a change of nature—I am an enemy and will always remain so.

After Aleister’s supposed revenge for the humiliation he had to face because of me, the days become dark. When he goes to my room, I find his mind filled with different w