The heavy silence inside that followed felt like it was pressing down on the floorboards.
Lin Wan sat on the edge of the bed, her breath coming a bit shallow as she looked at the two powerful males before her. She had just laid her soul bare to them, but not all though,. She had told them everything she could bring herself to say.
Qin Mo stayed very still beside her, his long, elegant fingers resting on the bed, though his mind was racing. Long Zhan stood by the window, his large shoulders tense under his dark mantle, his violet eyes reflecting the dimming light of the afternoon sky.
Long Zhan was the first to break the quiet. He let out a long, slow breath that sounded like a growl, though his face remained controlled. "So, that is the truth. The being that gave you those strange thing that appears out of nowhere, the strange foods,it belongs to a higher entity. And now it has abandoned this realm."
