Adeline walked forward, her eyes narrow with a thinly veiled jealousy. "Who do you think you are to accuse His Majesty of such grave sins?"
Claude swallowed, her chest heaving as she turned to Adeline. "It was you! You are the reason for all of this! His Majesty would have jumped in here to save me before you came along! Now..." she trailed off and turned to Lucan, her chest heaving as the hem of her dress started to catch fire. "Now, he is standing there while I burn in the pain he is inflicting upon me."
Lucan's eyes widened, and he clenched his fists hard, his brows drawn as he watched her. He absolutely had no intentions of going into that fire, especially with the fact that she had endangered herself like that on purpose.
He had more purpose for his life and his status than to go i
