Kael’s POV

I assumed she was a Lady that had come to see my sister.

I bowed curtly.

“Sorry for the interruption.”

She cleared her throat and slipped through the space between the door and me. But I was too bothered about my sister to care about her attitude.

I rushed in. Lupa was seated on her bed, her face paler than the last time I had seen her. But the look in her eyes hadn’t changed.

“Why are you here?” she asked.

I stopped. The messenger had said the disease started this morning, why was her voice already vanishing.

“Lupa-”

“Was it father?”

I looked away.

“Tell me!” Her...