Chapter 768

Chapter 113 : The Tunnel

Two guards came to either side of me. Before they could grasp my arms, I told them, “Don’t touch me. I have legs, and I can walk on my own.”

They glanced at the king, and he waved his hand, allowing the guards to respect my request. As a result, one of them nodded to me, showing me the way while the other followed behind, keeping a close watch.

I kept my head down but I constantly shifted my eyes from side to side, looking at my surroundings, memorizing my way through the palace to the dungeon.

I caught sight of several paintings on the wall that stuck out, embedding them in my mind.

When we got to an entrance leading to a tunnel going underground, the pitch black pathway had me stop for a moment. One of the guards pushed me onto the stairs.

“Hey!”

“Just keep going. You’ll be where you belong soon enough,” he growled.

The staircase was long and winding. When we got to the bottom, the air was damp and musty. Thankfully, I found the walls were lined with luminous stones, giving off a dim light. Once my eyes got used to the darkness, I could see again through the faint lighting.

“Straight ahead,” the guard barked at me.

I noticed there were hallways on either side, too.

The guards made me walk down the central hallway. That was easy enough to remember.

Despite my better judgment, I kept thinking about Eros. Had he told me the truth about Helen being in the dungeon? Was it all another part of his game?

He’d been deceiving us right from the start. Always lying about who he was and what he was after.

I understood that he wanted his freedom. Hell, I’d been there too. I nearly killed myself with poison to win my own. But the way he went about it… I had to question myself, if it was me, would I make the same choices as him?

Honestly, I didn’t know.

For someone like me and him, a slight chance for freedom meant everything.

any concern for what the king would do with them…all of that might sound worth it for

make the same decisions as him—if this

advantage of her, his own mate, over and over again. That

him greatly, I could tell. Not just physically, but also emotionally. He had to really care about her in order to look devastated by the rejection. Yet, between matebond and freedom, he chose the latter, destroying not only himself but the one and only person

like he was only out

find Helen just now? After all his treacherous doings, why would he care about anyone else all

because he wanted to make it up to me, to us? If he was as selfish a person as he seemed, why

the potential small flickers of goodness in him, I couldn’t bring myself to forgive him. Everyone had to live with the consequences of their actions. What was more, if he needed to make it up to anyone, it should be

losing his matebond was the price he paid. It was a loss he might never recover from. Part of me wanted to ask

those thoughts about Eros

It was for what I believed to be

worth it until everything was over. I could only

going to kill me. Between being the last of my family, for the

when he got what

dripped. I saw several cells

put my hand on my stomach. Was it safe for the baby to be in a

right or wrong, sometimes we had to take risks and follow our hearts.

in my mind suddenly. Oh, he was going

was going and why? At least, I was

home,” a guard said. He grabbed my arm and pushed me into the

flew against the back wall, the bars clanging closed behind me. I shuddered as I

I was left alone

to think about Soren. Once we were back together, he could be as mad as he wanted and I could figure out how to make amends

the floor and put my hands on my

saw her, it was

spells, and sometimes it was an instinct telling me

through the nose, out

anxious I was

felt a little flutter in my stomach. It was as if the baby could feel my anxiety and it was trying to comfort me. A

one. Mama is doing all right, but you’re right, I shouldn’t be this unsettled. It doesn’t

this out together. I was no longer cold

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