Chapter 156: MORE THAN A BIRD

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Few hours earlier...

Oriana lay on her bed, feeling a heavy weight pressing down on her chest. She lacked the energy to get up or even lift her head off the pillow. The thought of facing another day, another conversation, another meal, felt like too much to bear.

She just wanted to disappear, to fade away into nothingness. She had locked her heart to Adric, and even now, she couldn't hate him even after everything she found out the previous night, but she longed so much to see his face.

"Princess?"

A gentle knock sounded at Oriana's door. She turned her head gently towards the door and sighed. She didn't want to talk to anyone right now.

"Princess, it's me, Louis."