Adeline lifted her brows and shouted, "There's more? What else did that witch do?"
Theodore was not sure how to break the news lightly, so that Adeline would not be affected severely. But the matter itself was so sensitive that no matter how he said it, Adeline would be hurt.
After a lot of courage Theodore finally looked into Adeline's sapphire eyes and spoke, "She was the one who…" but he could not utter any more words and he looked away.
Adeline was now starting to get really worried. Was she trying to betray her father, the Kingdom? At this point she thought that Lillian was even capable of killing her own husband. "Just tell me Theodore, 'she was the one who…' and then what?"
"…who killed your mother" he whispered while avoiding making any eyes contact with the Princess.
