CHAPTER 290 ESCAPEE

Kael sat with Esme throughout the day on the balcony until the day turned into night. They were wrapped around each other, watching the dusky evening sky. When Esme asked about the seer’s words to him, he laid it thin, afraid not to tell her the actual words yet. This was not him lying or keeping things from her; this was him trying to process what he had also heard before saying anything. He can’t bring himself to leave her all because a version of him somewhere said so. This was his life, and he’ll bend Fate to suit his purpose. Kael would make Lilith see the reason; he wasn’t the one meant for her even though the Kaels before he was. When he closed his eyes for a brief moment, just as the cold night air swept through his face, he saw those rainbow eyes again, but they were not sad. This time, they were angry. He had barely rested since he returned; all his mind went to was solace from Esme, and he got just what he wanted to his fill. Something strange struck Kael’s, and the