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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.

that could help was gone

and looked me in the eye. “Ciana,

said sounded

“That’s what you taught me on our first day here,

followed her and

at 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 bloodline was young Prince Alexander, but

would spare his life until he found someone or

more cleansing breaths and felt

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

times rapidly. “It seems

didn’t know you could read minds,” I chuckled, trying to lighten the mood a little. “Yes. I think I have an idea of where they might be, well, at least where Theo might

Prince Theo, he can point us to the right direction where others might be, even

“Exactly.”

is the crowned prince and

“That’s true. News would

continued, “If I were the king, I would need to hide Theo someplace where no one could have easy access.

thought. “Somewhere that is close enough for him to check on the

he desires and the heir to the throne. He’s

I

deep in the night, and I’d been circling around the king’ s wing for a while

it was even harder to

while, but there was no sign of a dungeon or basement. Maybe I should try again tomorrow, or maybe I should go back

a hand cover my

heart plummeted to the ground and I almost screamed and flailed

“Shhh.”

and the

was quite a small hand, and its owner had a

Alexander.

I whispered, “What

against his lips for me to be quiet and he grabbed

to the brightly lit hallway. He wasn’t going to get me exposed,

all the guards and patrols perfectly, and entered a room I had passed many times

A small library.

see everything in it from the hallway, so how

few books.

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

the passageway. Then he

him. “What is this

wrists together like he

“A dungeon?”

He nodded.

“Theo is here?”

He nodded again.

him to die either, do you?

then turned on his heel to

shaky breath and continued my way

lighting was, which I appreciated. As I approached the end of the narrow pathway, I heard the

Theo!

hammered in my chest as I moved along the shadows. Soon, I got

formed dent, with large and small rocks scattering the ground,

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