Chapter 54

Helena felt the energy that had seized her body so voraciously before dissipating when she saw the commander ready to kill her.

Deep down, she understood that even if she loved him deeply and that all she wanted was to be close to him, it couldn’t happen anymore.

He was lucid until he was in her presence, his presence was the trigger to awaken the curse of madness in him.

And she knew that distance was best for him, even if it cost her heart, even if it meant that she would die inside, because she perfectly understood that his suffering was her fault, and her kind. After all, it was your kind that committed atrocities.

It was her kind that condemned an entire lineage to have the blood of their wives on their hands, at that moment while crying in bed she repudiated everything that was. 

She thought of that power that lived inside her, that had saved her life so many times, and thought that at any cost she would save John’s life, sat down on the bed