The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 70

He didn’t say anything. The anger began to brew in his eyes like a storm from the west, but it never hit the east.

Instead of letting it hit, he left the room.

I stared at him before letting out a sigh. I supposed he was rather gracious for exiting rather than yelling at me in a state like this, for why wouldn’t he? I had basically sworn away our happily ever after.

fore slipping out of bed to then cross the room to Theo’s door. He would be waiting for me to kiss him goodnight.

asleep waiting. The moonlight drenched the room a little more than usual; the curtains were drawn.

ning onto an empty bed.

ve gone to the bathroom. I stumbled over myself to the bathroom, my bones and tired body heavily protesting, but the panic stimulated me through it.

hroom.

high–where could he have gone? And how?

n were growing black. But I couldn’t fail at a time like this. I could not let my worst nightmare come true. As I peeled out of his room and into the corridors, all I could think about was the arrow shaped wound in his head from my dream.

allway screaming until my throat was raw in a suffocating panic. I prayed he did not make it far from my chambers after I told him what I did.

meet me.

ut hysterical, for he was looking at me in horror as if I was speaking in tongues.

hed out, throat burning, “Windows open.”

sed me to look up and meet his gaze. This made me see straight for a couple moments.

managed to sputter out.

Theo’s room. The guards followed him inside, and I assumed they confirmed the empty bed and the opened windows before c

s? Had I fallen asleep after Aldrich left my room?

fraid that I had gone into shock again.

el somewhat grounded in this terror. “Let’s go,” I said, starting my beeline down the hall.

hy,” Aldrich grabb

ed to be scouring indoors for him, so there was no point in looking anywhere inside. Alan joined us before we crossed the foyer, appearing like he was pulled right out of sleep, in which he most likely was.

eep out of his eyes as he power walked with us, “Why did my guards alert me that ‘Theo is missing?’”

lled him in as we stepped into the cold. It immediately bit at my cheeks, but I also didn’t have it in me to feel cold. I did not feel temperature right now; all I felt was panic.

he snowy fields, each group being assigned a different slice of woods. I was about to fall apart. First I had to search for my missing sister and now Theo, but I knew I would not be able to handle sitting in my room waiting for them to tell me about my baby.

Before I could look at him, he was off.

night.

ssing.

meaning to them. Everything in the world had lost its meaning.

an in the front stopped.

he snow, sir,” he announced to Aldrich, who only released me to go investigate. I held my breath, unable to tolerate the pain of each breath through my lungs without Th

snow was very thinly strewn across the grass, but there was a patch that was imprinted by footprints. I shoved through everyone to observe them right by his side. The world

space next to it.

at was next to Theo’s footprint was a m