Chapter 574: An Affinity
Loh closed her eyes and let the tears run down. The door suddenly closed shut. She turned around and saw Lily standing there. The vampiress held Louise’s ring and examined it with feigned interest.
“Get out,” Loh muttered as she wiped her eyes. “I said get out!”
Lily placed the ring atop the dresser. “You’re in pain.”
“Oh, really?” Loh scoffed and held up her bandaged arm. “Did they teach you that in the harlot academy?”
“I am not a harlot.” She sauntered over with casual steps.
Loh gasped dramatically, “No way? You could have fooled me when I found you in my grandfather’s bed. Or is it normal for young beautiful women to enjoy the company of old bitter men where you’re from?”
“What makes you think I’m not from here?”
“Your accent,” Loh sneered. “It’s faint, you’re good at hiding it, but I hear it sometimes at the end of your words. If you’re from Hollow Shade then I’m a goddamn dragon.”
“Mm. Fair.” Lily ignored the chair at Loh’s bedside and sat at the edge of the bed instead. “Elzri was bitter, but he was not old. He was a little past his prime for a drow, but he wasn’t even a hundred.”