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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.

to do then? Everyone I knew that could

in the eye. “Ciana, look at me. Take a deep

said sounded

her face, and said, “That’s what you taught me on our first day here, remember?” Then she took a deep inhale

and did

least, not now. With Justin and Maggie dead and Warren unconscious, Sabastian didn’t have many other options. The only one that carried the royal

he needed Theo, and at least would spare his life until he found someone or something to

a few more cleansing breaths and felt much

at Brook, I squeezed her hands. “Brook, you’re

blinked a few times rapidly. “It seems that you

minds,” I chuckled, trying to lighten the mood a little. “Yes. I think I have an idea of where they might be, well,

us to the right direction where

“Exactly.”

was connected to Theo’s suite. “Theo is the crowned prince and it

nodded. “That’s true. News

“If I were the king, I would need to hide Theo someplace where no

“Somewhere that is close enough for him to check on the situation easily and

and the heir to the throne. He’s going to be even more paranoid. Watch out for yourself and

nodded her head and I snuck

was deep in the night, and I’d been circling around the

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

of a dungeon or basement. Maybe I should try again tomorrow,

felt a hand

to the ground and I almost

“Shhh.”

stopped fighting and the hand released me

it was quite a small hand, and its owner had a small frame too. I

Alexander.

Alexander,” I whispered, “What

lips for me to be quiet

him through the garden and down to the brightly lit hallway. He wasn’t going to get

patrols perfectly, and entered a room I had passed

A small library.

for this room. Anyone could see everything in it from

bookcase and rearranged a few books. When

I allowed him to pull me down the darkened staircase that connected to a concrete walled passageway.

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

him. “What is

his wrists together

“A dungeon?”

He nodded.

“Theo is here?”

He nodded again.

die either, do you? You

and then turned on his

a shaky breath

I appreciated. As I approached the end of the narrow pathway, I heard the cracking of whips

Theo!

moved along the shadows. Soon, I

and small rocks scattering the ground,

saw two dingy cells in the far corner of the dent. Outside of the cells