Chapter48

#Chapter48

/"Princess,/" Annelece, with the body of an anorexic, and merely a layer of skin covering his bones, walked towards her, with his beard reaching till his stomach, his tattered clothes.

/"Annelece...Is what she said true?/" Adelaida asked.

/"Why would a keeper of death lie to you about killing someone?/" Vierne intervened.

/"You killed him?/"

/"I did,/" Lict accepted as he came forward.

/"Music? Why?!/" Adelaida asked as she clenched his bloody garments.

/"Because he dared try and violate my lady,/"

/"My lady?/" Nataniel looked at Vierne.

Adelaida looked down in shame, /"I never thought of uncle to be someone like that,/"

/"But that's how he was, apparently,/" Vierne said.

/"He lied to you about everything, princess,/" Annelece said, /"Your brother's death was not because of some disease, but poison, that your uncle fed him,/"

/"Not because of the sickness you passed?/"