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.

stealing from them, and giving a powerful and dangerous man even more powerful artifacts without any concern for what the king would do with them…all of that might sound worth it for me during my most desperate

would make the same decisions as him—if this was

his own mate,

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

seemed like he was

just now? After all his treacherous doings, why would he

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

with the consequences of their actions. What was more, if he needed

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.

pushed those thoughts about Eros aside and focused on my

that I had to live with. Like coming to the palace. It was for what I believed to be the right reasons, but that

never know whether it was worth it until everything was over.

dungeon, I was fairly certain that the king wasn’t going to kill 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 my

got what he wanted?

In the distance, water dripped. I saw several cells lining the walls beside me but I couldn’t hear anything from inside. Were there even

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

risks and follow our hearts. That’s what I’d done the

swam in my mind suddenly. Oh, he

At least, I was honest. I

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

bars clanging closed behind me. I shuddered

they went. I

wasn’t the time 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

my knees. Taking deep breaths in through the nose

saw her, it was in

out spells, and sometimes it was an instinct telling me what

through the nose,

One hour, maybe two. It felt like forever. The more anxious I was to drift away,

baby could feel my anxiety and it was trying to comfort me. A

but you’re

the small life inside that we would figure this out together. I was no longer cold

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