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Chapter 19: Who Lifted the Curse?

*Theo*

“Mom… Mama….”

The girl kept crying out in her sleep, sometimes for her mother, other times for her father. I thought it was a good thing that she was at least speaking, even if she seemed to be having nightmares while she rested.

go?

It was a long night, but I stayed with her.

After all, she was asleep in my bed. Where else would I

Sitting next to her, I did my best to keep her calm, but it was difficult, and as the night wore on, I began to grow rather weary myself.

“Daddy!” she shouted, flinging both arms up into the air. “Daddy-no!”

“It’s all right, Ciana,” I said, smoothing her hair back and trying to get her to stop moving her arms so wildly. “It’s just a dream. You’re okay.”

“Daddy, please! No!”

The way she was crying out, I thought perhaps her father or her mother had done something awful to her at some point in time. But other times, the things she said made it seem like someone was hurting her parents.

I knew it had to all be just dreams, but it was all very dis- turbing, even for me.

I didn’t know how to explain what I was feeling. When she was awake, the things that she did, the words that she said just made me want to throw her out of the window some- times, so shouldn’t I be happy that she wasn’t able to bother me at this moment?

Yet, I didn’t like to see her so upset. I didn’t like hearing her cry out like that. Perhaps it was because she was still too noisy. So… I smoothed her hair and whispered to her, “Hey, it’s all right….”

Her lips were chapped, probably because she hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for a while. I didn’t want her to get sick. I did need her blood after all. I took a glass of water and slowly dripped it into her mouth, being careful not to choke her.

She seemed to be awake enough to swallow at least. I managed to get a little bit of water down her, which helped her fall back to sleep for a short while until she started wig- gling again in her nightmares.

After a few rounds of this, even I was exhausted. I sat down on the edge of my bed next to her and closed my eyes. just to get a few minutes of rest.

But my mind was busy with thoughts of everything that had gone on that night. Luther… or whoever the hell that was- what did he want?

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And Ciana. What could I do to wake her up?

“Mama?” Ciana’s voice brought me out of my attempt to

sleep. I leaned over and looked at her. Moonlight steamed over her face, her hair reflecting the light and creating a soft glow around her.

Now that I had the chance to actually appreciate her fa- cial features, I had to say, she really was strikingly gorgeous. Even through my gloves, I could tell her skin was smooth like porcelain, and it went really well with her bright blue eyes… when they were open.

Perhaps what made her even more appealing was the fact that she didn’t seem stuck up about how pretty she was at all,

unlike most of the other candidates.

“No, no…” Ciana moaned again. “Somebody, help!”

I hated to see her this way. Because… I was worried about her blood, of course.

all right.

when she did so, she bit down on her pink lips, the ones that I had kissed… I remembered they

rate speed up. This was wrong… I

should have done

had hugged me voluntarily. Did she do that simply because she was putting on a show? Or maybe she didn’t loathe me as much as I thought she

because of the

she truly was… foolish. She had no idea how

with tears that had slid out at some point while she was thrashing. I gently wiped

her.

for you to

“Water…” she muttered.

I took a sip from the cup, and leaned down to gently press

again. After

her.

the fuck was I

*Ciana*

Something was different….

again, I was opening my eyes in a room I shouldn’t have been in. My head ached, and my body felt stiff as I turned around to try to figure out where

linens were familiar to me, and someone else was laying next

face was so close that I could feel his warm breath gently blowing

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crease in between his brow, I couldn’t deny how strikingly

Wait, wait, wait!

This was… Prince Theo!

was struck awake

back to me.

had been kidnapped. I’d chased after her. Theo had

to him. What happened between us after I fainted?! Did

thankful to see I had

at least nothing like that had happened. I let out a breath of relief and immediately felt my

Theo liked me or

Finally, I was able to breathe freely without worrying about waking up the royal

Obviously, this wasn’t a comfortable position for him to sleep in, and the only

me the whole night when I was

actually took care of a lowly commoner like me the entire night? I wanted to deny it, but based on the exhausted look

could have asked someone else to do that… oh, right. It must be because of my

knew the answer, I still felt a flow of warmth run through my heart. Maybe he

moment, I grabbed the blanket to cover him. As I leaned down, his

touch any of your belongings!” I explained, remembering

Instead, he was gazing at me, a shocked look

“Your Highness?”

me but then leaned up so that he was resting on one arm. His brow furrowed as if he was puz- zled. “Are you… awake?” he

wondering why it was so difficult for him to tell. “Either that or this is a very

“Yes, I know you’re awake. That’s not what I meant.

to be?” I didn’t

what had happened to

The healer said you wouldn’ t be able to wake up

was that I seemed fine now, although I had no idea how that might’ve come to pass. “I don’t know,” was the best I