Chapter 138: Adelaide.

My eyes sting when I close them to blink and it’s not a bad sting.

It’s the kind of sting that accompanies the dull ache in my bones. I feel like I've been drained of energy, and it’s not a spectacular feeling.

I kick a stray stone my eyes latch onto before a scoff escapes my lips.

What the fuck did I think I was doing breaking down like that? I must have looked so silly.

And Cain.

A liquid feeling surfaces in my body and I feel it as it moves, from my heart to my brain and then a full sweep down to my core.

Cain seems to be misunderstanding some things.

When I say I want to be free, I mean I want to be free to love him.

I still want to have the power to live my life without a Lycan king breathing down my neck, or parents who never loved me humiliating me, and dooming me to a life of insignificance and disgrace.

I may have escaped the latter, or not, but my concept of freedom has changed now.

An image of Lyros taking me back to my parent’s pack surfaces in my mind and for the first ti