Fated To The Cursed Lycan Prince
Fated to the Cursed Lycan Prince Chapter 701

Sylvia’s POV:

When Noreen explained how the black thorn grow bigger with love, I couldn’t help but think about the nightmare I had about Rufus being penetrated by sharp thorns.

I trembled and grabbed the collar of my shirt, trying to calm myself down, but it was useless. I felt suffocated and couldn’t breathe.

“When your mother saw the thorn forming on Leonard’s back, she cried and begged me to remove her from Leonard’s memory. As long as Leonard didn’t love her anymore, he wouldn’t die.”

As Noreen spoke, there was a hint of remorse in her smile. “I ended up agreeing to your mother’s request. In exchange, she needed to come back and stay with me forever. But Olivia betrayed me again!”

Noreen raised her voice all of a sudden. The resentment in her voice made her look like a ferocious beast. “I shouldn’t have softened my heart!”

When Noreen suddenly lost control of her emotions, I instantly put my guard up and carefully stepped back. “How did she betray you?”

Noreen didn’t answer me. Instead, she glared at me as though she was looking straight into the eyes of an enemy she’d been hunting down for a long time.

Her gaze sent a shiver down my spine, and goose bumps formed on my bare skin.

Noreen took a step towards me. Then, she suddenly calmed down and looked at me with glazed eyes as though I was an old friend whom she hadn’t seen for a long time.

“You look just like her…”

I knew she was talking about my mother, so I didn’t interrupt her.

Noreen pulled at her robe, revealing my mother’s pendant on her neck. Her golden hair was as smooth and shiny as silk in the faint candlelight.

“Do you know what it’s like to be hurt by those closest to you? It’s so painful that you can’t even make a sound. It’s even more suffocating than drowning,” Noreen murmured to herself.

In that moment, I could tangibly feel her hopeless loneliness. She was like an ancient well that had been abandoned for many years, lifeless and gray.

“After I cast the spell, Leonard forgot everything about Olivia. I thought that she’d finally stay with me after that. But little did I know that your mother— that damned Olivia— would use my weakness against me!” When Noreen got emotional, her voice became high and shrill. She clutched at her heaving chest and her eyes turned red. “Your mother stabbed me right in the middle of my heart! I almost died! Even though I survived by luck in the end and finally recovered, seven years had passed! By the time I found her again, it happened to be the day she was executed!”

Unable to take the pain and relive the day when I lost my mother forever, I interrupted Noreen harshly.

“That’s enough! What’s the point of saying all this? No matter how much you hate my mother, she’s dead!”

I couldn’t help but burst into sobs when I recalled my mother’s miserable and unwarranted death.

Noreen threw her head back and laughed like a lunatic. Her delicate features contorted, looking disharmonious, like work of art stained with ink.

Her ghostly voice sent shivers down my spine. Even though every word she said was an accusation against my mother, she was clearly very angry at her powerlessness.

“I could’ve saved her if Olivia begged me to forgive her. And I would’ve forgiven her, but then I learned that she had already sacrificed her life in using the forbidden skill to seal the black witch bloodline in your body. Even if your Gamma didn’t frame Olivia and executed her, she wouldn’t have lived for long.”