The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 68
Once the sun was gone and the moon had returned, the mysterious healer returned to Emily and Elias’s residence like every night.
“Everything is going according to plan,” the man informed the couple. They silently rejoiced at this, the mischief twinkling in Emily’s eyes.
Elias looked at the ominous healer. “Tell us.”
ll dead within two hours.”
ns behind the operation, just willingness to do anything to get ahead.
g against him.
ll fall apart piece by piece.”
or what she has done,” Emily sneered.
ious healer seemed to be formerly proud of his plan, but uncomfortably shift
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e floating, dark void.
uzzing, distant place.
wly, I was coming back to the surface, but I still could not break it as I heard the two people in the room with me.
ing up?” the younger voice demanded in a tone edged with panic.
.”
o talk to me again.
She’s been sleeping for so long,” Theo complained
”
seemed like he was really accepting the title. Maybe he had already accepted it a long time ago.
My body felt so exhausted, like bags of sand were holding my limbs down to the bed underneath me.
out randomly, “why?”
is strong. She’s stronger than any of those toy soldiers of yours, even stronger than me.”
eneral!” he protested.
than an army general.”
od at protecting me from bad guys…but I want to
very day when you’re older,” Aldrich promised, “I know the feeling of wanting to do anything to pro
ut. It was hard not to fall victim to that.
for many years, which isn’t how childhood is supposed to be. I want you to keep on your archery, but to also play with those toy soldiers instead of learning to be one of them.”
want to make
do, every day. Even that man in the village who did not know yo
before responding in a flattered, lighthearted voice, “I guess.”
e followed this. I tried reaching my hand through the surface of consciousness but kept failing to, if only I was able to reach just an inch more…
nce and my mommy is a princess?” Theo sudde
ays saves the princess in those tales?”
blehead nod.
d, “in this story, the princess saves the prince.”
coating his voice.
surprise that ran through my body must have been enough to rejuvenate my mind, because my fingers finally thrusted through the surface of consciousness, an
ly met a pair of hazel gleaming brown, and another of emerald eyes that matched my own. They both contained the same level of concern, and a sleepy grin instantly crossed my face.
disapprovingly as Theo ju
glimpsing down at me.
for a second; I sounded eighty years older than I was.
ws pinched together.
was just feeling tired,” I responded, looking to Aldrich cluelessly. I had no idea what to tell our s
ok a nap right in the snow!” he exclaimed.
the snowy fields with Theo, retrieving the arrow…then the sea of darkness crashing over me. It felt like all of my strength had been sucked out of me at once, leaving nothing but my tired bones.
arms to hug them around Theo, I felt the heaviness in t
l health? What could that mean?
de my heart crinkle in on itself, and I felt weaker and weaker.
y,” I said, placing my hand on his arm, “go to your room and I will tuck you into bed in five minute
or me. Aldrich helped him off the bed before guiding him to the door that conjoined our rooms. He then closed it behind Theo.
down at my hands.
me what’s going on with you?” he asked.
don’t know what you’re talking about.”