Chapter 236

Cillian froze the moment he heard those words. The real person who had taken care of him when he was a child... wasn't her? His legs moved, one step at a time, expression cracking into desperate confusion. "What do you mean?" Regina simply shrugged like she was talking about the weather and not a lie she'd spanned out for years, for her own benefit. "Exactly what I said. The person who took care of you back then," she paused and a smile crept up her face, drawing her lips so back that it looked like they'd split at any second. "Wasn't me." Something snapped inside Cillian. Like glass being broken, or better yet, the image he'd built up about her over all these years, finally shattered into wounding pieces. As if she wasn't satisfied with the outcome, seeing his heart bleed into his face, she added. "It was Bellatrix." She has said it before, but hearing it once again felt incomprehensible for Cillian. For the first time in forever, he didn't know how to feel. Confused? Angry? Hurt? Dis