Chapter 561

The chill of the night air, fraught with a tension as thick as molasses, wove through the space between them like an unwelcome specter.

Avery’s heart plunged the moment he saw his beloved Evadne standing with Thaddeus, the joy of her presence crashing down. around him, shattering like fragile glass.

“Evadne, my dear, you’ve come?” Mrs. Chambers‘ eyes sparkled with a tender gleam, and she looked as if she would rise from her wheelchair to embrace the girl if only her legs would allow it.

It was curious how Mrs. Chambers, whose memory often faltered when it came to her own son, never failed to recognize Evadne’s striking beauty. Her affection was a poorly kept secret, transparent as glass.

“Mrs. Chambers, good to see you,” Evadne greeted, bowing her head in polite deference.

Thaddeus wrapped a protective arm around Evadne’s waist, his gaze sharp and unyielding as a blade of ice, vigilant of Avery’s every move.

“Evadne, who is this?” Mrs. Chambers asked, bewildered by Thaddeus‘ stoic expression, clutching the hem of Avery’s shirt for

reassurance.

glasses, stole the moment with a smile.

as though Thaddeus wasn’t even

travel?” Evadne’s voice was sharp as frosted crystal, unwilling to mince words with Avery in front of Mrs. Chambers. “You know the darkness you’ve conjured, the

his gaze loaded with a love as brilliant

Evadne talking about? I don’t understand,” Mrs. Chambers said,

his angelic features belying the venom within. “Evadne, who’s Eden? I don’t know the man. And what trouble

swirling in his chest at the memory of he and Cassius’s near–fatal encounter on Star

here was Avery, the puppet master of it all, feigning innocence.

a

her

Debby and her husband far away in Helgen. But this was not the time for trivial verbal victories. She sought

can we leave now?” Mrs. Chambers whispered, her frail body curled slightly, asking

for years, her son’s care leaving her fragile as a leaf. Although autumn was nigh in Elmsworth, the chill of early morning

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