Content Warning: This chapter contains unsettling themes involving inappropriate and predatory behavior from a parent toward a child. These elements are portrayed as disturbing and villainous and are not romanticized.
Chapter 275: The Truth They Carry
Lyria's POV
I was visibly uncomfortable, but the King did not care. He stood there, his gaze fixed upon me, his smile lingering at the corners of his lips. I stepped back, trying to create some distance, but he closed it just as quickly. The corridor seemed to narrow around us, the air growing heavy.
"Y-you knew my m-mother?" I asked, my voice strained.
The King inhaled deeply, as though savouring something in the air. His eyes drifted closed for a moment, and when they opened again, they were darker.
"How could I not know your mother?" he said, his voice low. "I knew her very well. And perhaps I may come to know you too."
