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Chapter 107: I Was Their Only Hope

*Ciana*

My breath came out in low and shallow pants as I heard the protests from Nita and the roars from the king.

However, I couldn’t see anything from here until I saw Theo and Nita being escorted out of the room. When Theo walked past the closet, I thought I saw him shift his eyeballs very subtly.

Yet I understood what he wanted from me.

Stay safe.

I had hoped for this plan to go smoothly but I should have known someone like Sebastian wouldn’t be easy to trick.

It wasn’t like I didn’t consider bursting out of this closet and playing the hero, but that would’ve been flat-out stupid.

Theo had placed me here for a reason and I agreed with him on that. At this point, I was their only hope, and getting myself locked up with them really wouldn’t do us any good:

When I was sure everyone had left the king’s suite, I counted to 100 before slowly opening the closet door and peeking down the hallway.

Empty.

Perfect.

Keeping my steps as light as could be and sticking to the corners, I managed to get out without drawing any more unwanted attention.

Where would Jake be? I needed him. Now.

He would know what to do in times like this.

My legs took me back to Theo’s wing. Jake had to be waiting there. However, as I got close, I stopped when I heard someone jogging over from a distance. My first instinct was to hide, but then I recognized the footsteps.

“Brook?”

“Ciana! Thank the Goddess you’re here!”

A sense of foreboding rushed through me. “What happened?”

“They took him.” She cried. The tears streamed down her face and her cries got harder with each passing second. “They put him in chains and took him away.”

“Who, Brook? Who did they take?” I pulled out of her hold and grabbed her shoulders. “Jake?!”

“Yes!” she sniffed. “One moment he was at the library with me and the next these guards came barging into the door and put chains on him. They beat him into submission because he was trying to push me out of the way.”

My heart sank.

“I came here to seek help for Prince Theo because Jake is his Beta.” Brook probably noticed my face was as pale as ash. “Ciana, don’t look at me like that. You’re scaring me now…”

“They took everyone then.” I stared at her solemnly. “Brook, we’re in big trouble now,”

“Everyone?” She wiped away the last few stray tears.

I nodded. “Prince Theo and Lady Nita included.”

“No…” Brook covered her mouth with her hands.

We looked at each other worriedly, and we both saw panic in each other’s eyes.

knew that could help

hand and looked me in the eye.

she said

her face, and said, “That’s what you taught me on our

and did the

other options. The only one that carried the royal bloodline was young Prince Alexander, but he was too young to be sent to battlefields like

least would spare his life until he found someone or something to replace

took a few more cleansing breaths and

squeezed her hands. “Brook, you’re amazing.

welcome. I learnt from the best.” She blinked a few times rapidly. “It seems that you

trying to lighten the mood a little. “Yes. I think I have an idea of where they might

the right direction where others might be, even if

“Exactly.”

which was connected to Theo’s suite. “Theo is the crowned prince and it would make the royal

nodded. “That’s true. News would spread

king, I would need to hide Theo someplace where no one could have easy access. Somewhere no one

thought. “Somewhere that is close enough for him to

The king just got betrayed by the woman he desires and the heir to the throne. He’s

her head and I snuck out of

been circling around the king’ s wing for

was more frequent, and it was even harder to navigate without being discovered compared to

here for a while, but there was no sign of a dungeon or basement. Maybe I should

I felt a hand cover

heart plummeted to the ground and I almost screamed

“Shhh.”

and the

it was quite a small hand, and its owner

Alexander.

Alexander,” I whispered, “What are you doing

his lips for me to be quiet and he grabbed my

the brightly

that somehow he avoided all the guards and patrols perfectly, and entered a room I had passed many times but didn’t pay much attention

A small library.

could see everything in it from the hallway, so how could it hold

few books. When he pulled it

anything, I allowed him to pull me down the darkened staircase that connected to a concrete walled passageway. The only thing illuminating it were the dim. orange

stop at the end of the passageway. Then he let go of my hand and turned

after him. “What

together like

“A dungeon?”

He nodded.

“Theo is here?”

He nodded again.

to die either, do you? You care

nodded a third time and then turned on his heel

breath

approached the end of

Theo!

chest as I moved along the shadows. Soon, I got to the end, and the space opened

and small

saw two dingy cells in the far corner of the dent. Outside of the cells were two posts, where Theo and Jake were each tied