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Chapter 23 Sharing A Room with Him

Lightning illuminated the sky above us, and I wrapped the raincoat Warren had packed for me tighter, but it wasn’t doing me a whole lot of good.

To avoid being tracked down by the city security, who reported directly to Theo, we intentionally avoided public transportation until we got outside of the greater capital city

area.

It had been raining for hours, and I was beginning to feel drowsy from trudging through the mud in such foul weather. I sneezed, again, this time barely getting my arm up to cover my face, and I willed myself to keep walking.

Warren was concerned about me, and he had been for the last few hours since I’d begun to cough and sneeze. He wanted to shift and let me climb on his back, but I’d refused. We would save that for if we were in danger. Right now, I was miserable, but I wasn’t going to die.

“I see city lights off in the distance, Ciana,” he told me. “We’re almost to a town.”

His words entered my mind, but I was having trouble processing them. Unless it was a town with a giant bubble over the top of it that would protect me from the rain, I didn’t

care.

Trudging on, I began to lose most of my conscious thought. I just continued to lift one foot and then the other. Eventually, I

noticed that Warren was guiding me, his arm around me, and then, the mud of the forest changed to open green grass, to pavement, to a sidewalk… to steps.

“Where are we going?” I muttered.

“A hotel,” he explained. “You need to rest and recover.”

“Let’s find a small one,” I mumbled my explanation. “Fewer security cameras around.”

“Good point!” He chuckled under his breath and commented, “You surprise me all the time, you know that?”

“Goodness gracious!” a loud female voice proclaimed. “You poor dears look half drowned.”

“Yes, we need a couple of rooms, please,” Warren explained to her as I leaned against his side to keep from falling over.

“I’m afraid I only have one,” the woman said. “But it’s got a big bed in it.”

“That will do.” Warren held on to me as he fished out payment for the room from beneath his raincoat, and I wrapped my arm around his middle to steady myself, my eyes locked on the floor where a puddle was forming from all the water dripping off of me.

I wanted to apologize to the custodial staff for making such a

mess.

Halfway up the stairs, I lost my footing and almost tumbled back down, despite Warren’s grip on me.

“All right, that’s it,” he proclaimed, and the next thing I knew, I was being lifted off of the steps into his arms. I didn’t protest. Even if I’d wanted to, the words wouldn’t come out of my mouth.

Once we were in the room, he helped me out of my raincoat, and then I insisted that I could change into dry clothes myself. I went into the bathroom and took a shower with very warm water, which I enjoyed.

to the room wearing fresh dry clothes, Warren had also changed. He looked at me very concerned. “I think this is worse than just

even that seemed to be moving

being in that hideous dungeon for all of that time has left your immune system weak,

putting anything inside of it, but I didn’t have a problem crawling into the nice warm bed. The next thing I knew, a spoon was being coaxed

Had I fallen asleep?

sat beside me, getting me some soup and water. Then he said, “I’ll go see if I can find a pharmacy that’s

entire establishment. “No…” I muttered; my mind was cloudy. “It’s not safe. You’ll catch a

chuckled under his breath. “I think I’ll be okay. I take

a… good prince…

“Unlike what?”

I felt I couldn’t think straight, but

with you, I know you’re delirious

away. My head lolled to the side, and I noticed the print on the wallpaper. It was

to say something

out of sleep, tossing and turning. I had vague recollections of someone helping me

strange dreams, and although I couldn’t remember the details, I

it was more of

Theo had been

with a start, much like I had when I’d

window, and Warren was sitting in a chair across the room, reading a

sleeping beauty awakens!” he teased,

stretched my

said with a

the rain to get me medicine and fed me

nodded.

good man. “We should be on our way soon so that you can get back

now.”

a golden glow and I felt my heart skip a beat. “I seriously doubt they are. Besides, it’s getting kind of late. It’s been a bright, sunny day, but it’ll be dark in just a couple of hours. It would be

it wouldn’t do me any good to try to talk him out of it, so I nodded. “All right then. I’m going to

he

of bright flowers that have flourished after the rain. Check

slept for a long time, that was for sure. My hair was sticking up

but

a quaint bench beneath a tree full of fuchsia blooms, next to several rose

happened in the castle. I thought about Prince Theo and how, for a while, I’d thought perhaps he truly

in prison for doing nothing wrong. No,

of what had unfolded while I

dream to

seemed like

then there was Warren. My long-lost

any memory whatsoever of being in the woods in a faraway land when

young, but I hadn’t had the courage to