Chapter 208: Adelaide.

I wake up with my head on Lyrsos’s chest and a stream of sunlight hits me on the face.

His chest rises and falls and I notice it subtly at first, the fact that something has changed.

The change is so subtle I almost do not feel it but it’s there and then it comes. The sun seems to burn brighter today.

Hotter.

I feel every wave of heat as it courses through the room and I feel every draft of air. I feel the slight dusting of hair on Lyros’s chest as I lay on it, and every strand of hair on my head seems to be alive.

I’m…. awake.

“Are you okay Adelaide?”

Lyros’s voice rumbles in his chest as he speaks and something about it has a smile breaking out on my face. That smile falls the next minute as the memories of yesterday come back to haunt me.

“Yes Lord Lyros. Yes, everything is fine.”

If Lyros is convinced he doesn’t say so. He doesn’t make any indication of where his heart lies this morning and it hurts me. I went into the room again.

I don’t know why.

After a week of constantly havin