Chapter 154: Adelaide.

Cain can barely stand on his feet.

He visibly trembles with how much pain he’s in but the guards help me lift him despite my tears and when I see how much Cain is enduring the pain, how much he glances at me from time to time, telling me to be strong and to not cry so much because maybe my tears also hurt him the way his injuries hurt me, I pull myself together and try to be brave.

I cry silently instead.

I feel like I went on a trip just to come back and find a wild animal maiming something that means so much to me, and then that animal looks me straight in the eye and tells me it’s my fault.

“You refused to wake up.”

I glance at Lyros and at the look of slight remorse on his face, I scoff.

My scoff betrays all the hurt I feel right now and the expression on his face falls even faster. He clenches his jaw and he clenches his hands into fists, but apart from that he says nothing and does nothing.

I look away because he’s not worth the time and the effort. If he hates us so much why do