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.

and dangerous man even more powerful artifacts without any concern for what the king would do with them…all of that might sound worth

same decisions as him—if this was just between

her, his

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

he was only out

help me find Helen just now? After all his

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

couldn’t bring myself to forgive him. Everyone had to live with the consequences of

rejected and losing his matebond was the price he paid. It was a loss he might never recover from. Part of me wanted to ask him if it was worth it.

about Eros aside

was for what I believed to

it until everything was over. I could only hope

me. Between being the last of my family, for the most part, and the artifact, he needed me for something. I could just feel it in

got what he wanted?

cells lining the walls beside me but I couldn’t

stomach. Was it safe for the baby to be in

regardless of right or wrong, sometimes we had to take risks and follow our hearts. That’s what I’d done the moment when I read the king’s

my mind suddenly. Oh, he was going

and why? At least, I was

you are, your new home,” a guard said. He grabbed my arm and pushed me

closed behind me. I shuddered

away, laughing as they went. I was left alone in the dimly

he could be as mad as he wanted and I could figure out how to make

floor and put my hands on my knees. Taking deep breaths in through the nose and letting them out through the mouth, I concentrated on

saw her, it was in a dream or

months, the witch power had grown in my body. I could feel it. Sometimes, it was an urge to chant out spells, and sometimes it was an instinct

nose, out

know how long it had been. One hour, maybe two. It felt like forever. The more anxious I was to drift away, the harder it was for me to enter the dream realm or

It was as if the baby could feel my anxiety and it was trying to comfort me. A smile

but you’re right, I shouldn’t be this unsettled. It doesn’t

we would figure this out together. I was no longer cold and lonely. The little one in me gave me strength, as well as peace

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