Chapter 33 Awakening

So she saw it anyway.

It was daylight, and everything was painfully clear.

Oriana was drowning in shame, stunned to her core. She muttered under her breath, "It... it really won't burst?"

Before the words fully left her lips, she was startled by a low, hoarse chuckle.

It sounded as if someone had been holding it back for a long, long time and finally failed.

That voice...

Oriana's heart already kn