Chapter 135: Treachery

TRISTAN:

An intense amount of pain took over me as I looked at Dahlia’s retreating form in the dead of the night.

I had no strength to come to her again. After what I just heard, I knew it was over between us… absolutely over…

Now I understood why she said I must have hated her… She was the life that was exchanged for my mother and had caused my poor Livia her freedom from Count Jeteris’ clutches.

I howled in anguish. How can the Moon Goddess ever bring such a fate into us?

“Come out,” I called on the bushes. “I can smell your scent even from a mile away.”

Samalah emerged from the bushes in her human form, her eyes glistening with tears.

“I told you, didn’t I? Dahlia Hurst was our enemy, but you didn’t listen…”

“Did you know it? Did you know the truth even before she said it,” I spat.

Samalah nodded. “I had a strong hunch since she had powers. She didn’t come from a magical family, and she was rumored to have be