The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 161

A quiet sound from my phone started to drag me up and out of a deep sleep.

I had been napping the afternoon away, while Alexander was working.

And the evening, too, apparently. It was already dark out, I saw through the window as I peeled my tired eyes open. I was surprised that he had let me sleep so late.

more awake now and registered th

enly fully worried about who was blowing up my phone and why. I scrambled for the phone but accidentally knocked it to the floor in my state of sleepy panic, and had to g

he lighting in the bedroom, the state of things.

r’s office was wide open, and inside it all the lights were on. A rectangle of yellow light stretched out of that open doorway and across our bedroom floor.

ed and stood back up with some difficulty. I rubbed sleep from my eyes and swiped my finger across the screen to open up the notif

as a confusing sight.

back and forth from the scene in Alexander’s empty office to the screen on which my friend’s frantic messages were displayed.

: Just saw the news. Are you ok? Tell me you weren’t with him or anywhere around there!

Fi – are you safe? Just text to confirm please.

ll or text me tell me yo

I felt it hammering in my throat.

ng was wrong. But that was the only thing I could understand right now.

talking about?

oned. That much was clear.

his desk, as if he’d been deeply entrenched in planning or mapping something out before he literally dropped everything and fled. An open permanent marker lay on the floor, leaking red ink into the plush white rug. I picked it

hurried back to the bedroom and turned on our giant TV.

an to play on the painfully bright TV screen.

ergency. Call when you’re up.

s the TV was on, it caught and held my attention.

happened within the past hour.

the headline scrolling along the bottom of

ERY AUTOMOBILE COLLISION, HOSPITALIZED IN

tempt…”

oo. Now, he was lying in a hospital bed with critical injuries. I could hardly fathom it.

this, and turned up the volume while I waited impatiently to watch the clip.

he Alpha King was traveling a secure route back to his palace after spending the day in court, where he was finalizing the ruling on his now-fugitive wife Scarlet’s embezzle

e viewers.”

what I was about to see. A car accident of some kind.

video began.

s a black limousine. In front of and behind the limo were two black SUVs. On either side of it were motorcycles, atop which rode armed guards.

le seconds.

luding once in slow motion.

ver, landing upside-down on top of the lead car. The limo and flattened SUV then skidded forward together into the tunnel and disappeared.

e spinning out of control, having been unable to change his course in time.

ing exploded inside.

e news. The limo driver, the guard on the motorcycle and the two that had been inside the lead SUV did not survive.

there is unclear, even with this video of the event. No one knows why the Alpha King’s limousine flipped, how such a thing is even possible…”

to have seen it.

ed its “inexplicable” forward flip.

on mute and called Alexander.

’t answer

Alexander

y pocket and just knew that it was Fiona.

s up. She’d gotten my te

d silenced the call. I’d have to get back to her after I was done with the doctor.

es.

severe. He suffered second, third and fourth degree burns to over seventy percent of his body, including his face and neck. We have a lot of work to do here.”

tal, which was now closed to the public until further notice.

at my father had been able to survive such bloody and horrific injuries.

vy sedation,” the doctor said. “The level of pain he would be feeling if he were awake is not something the body or mind can tolerate… we have to keep him out for now. We will perform more skin grafts as soon as his vitals are stable enough for t

s up?”

ting his glasses.

e when we get to it,” he said after a pause.

lieved that bridge may be quite far off in the