Chapter 221: Adelaide.

Raina and I pack a fruit basket.

I don't care that the guards have never let me out of here, I'll go out.

They should know how much I mean to their boss and if that doesn't work,... Well, I'll find a way to make it work.

I won't stay here for one minute longer.

" Lyros won't be happy when he arrives and doesn't find you here Adelaide."

The whisper against my ear is that of a female and I know it's Raina's without even looking. She's scared.

"Isn't it better to stay and beg for his forgiveness when he comes back than to incur his wrath by running away?"

I shake my head immediately because it isn't.

Just the thought of what I've been doing with Lyros for the past three months in my memories makes my skin crawl now.

If he comes back, he'll want more of that from me. More of the intimacy we share when he knows he's never done anything to earn that intimacy from me.

He's.... ruined me. I don't know how to put it but I've always known something was wrong. I've always known something just wa