Chapter 480 – Ask Her Why [Bonus Chapter]
Ask Seraphim why. Ask her why she had done what she had done.
Ask her why she had given Theophane the ability to kill her if she came to love her profoundly and deeply. Ask her why, and Seraphim Hood would not be able to give a satisfactory answer.
She didn't know.
Yet the moment she had officially done it, and even gone as far as kissing Theophane – feeling her soft lips, her heartbeat quickening dramatically, her body trembling frailly beneath her scarred arms – the Princess somehow knew she had been lying to herself all this time.
'Love,' she whispered in her mind, her lips still pressed against Theophane's. 'Do I also want to be loved?'
That question rang painfully inside her chest. And her god, the Lord of Death, echoed inside her mind.
