"Do you know who your mother is? Like who she really was?" The Librarian asked with some apprehension in her voice. For the first time in a long time, she sounded nervous.
Yet Cain didn't seem to notice as he frowned and replied "My mother was a simple maid who worked in the castle. My father took a liking to her and made her his concubine. From what I was told, my mother died giving birth to me."
There was a heavy silence that lingered at the end of those words. Jayden immediately went closer to him and gave him a hug as only now did she truly realize that Cain had actually been deprived of genuine love for such a long time.
Mira struggled to resist her own urge to hug him while Maris silently but awkwardly offered him her tail as if touching it would make him feel better.
