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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

at him, but even that seemed to be

think you being in that hideous dungeon for all of that time has left your immune

thought of 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 into my mouth. I split my lips and slurped up the broth,

Had I fallen asleep?

said, “I’ll go see

muttered; my mind was cloudy. “It’s not safe. You’ll

“I think I’ll be okay. I take my vitamins

a… good prince…

“Unlike what?”

brother. He’s…” Um, my head was so heavy and I felt I couldn’t think straight, but it didn’t prevent

with you, I know you’re delirious because my sweet, mild-mannered Ciana would

words trailed away. My head lolled to the side, and I noticed the

say something to Warren, he was

and turning. I had vague recollections of someone helping me with

couldn’t remember

Maybe it was

Theo had been kissing

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

in through the window, and Warren was sitting in

awakens!” he teased, causing

I stretched my arms up over my

said with a grin.

remembered how he’d gone out in the rain to get me medicine and fed me soup. “You took care of

nodded. “I wanted you

“We should be on our way soon so that you can get back to the castle. They’re probably missing

now.”

he said, smiling. The soft afternoon sunshine gave him 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 better if we continued our journey tomorrow

do me any good to try to talk him out of it, so I nodded. “All right

idea,” he said. “There’s a

flowers that have flourished

the restroom to make myself somewhat presentable. I looked like I had slept for a long time, that was

couldn’t help but

quickly found the courtyard he’d been speaking of. It was lovely. Sitting down on a quaint bench beneath a tree full

my mind kept going back over everything that had happened in the castle. I thought about Prince Theo and how, for a while, I’d thought perhaps he

had ended abruptly when he’d had me thrown in prison for doing nothing wrong. No, I was certain now that he truly was as ruthless as everyone

unfolded while I was at

a dream to

seemed like

was Warren. My

had wanted to ask him so many times if he had any memory whatsoever of

hadn’t had the