The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 74
The dread became heavy in my stomach the moment they left.
I felt cold when Aldrich was gone. It was like losing the sun, the land becoming a snowy and desolate wasteland where nothing lives. The only rays of light came from Theo.
He looked like the light in him was completely gone after the vampire attack.
that needed to be done. I needed to tend to my son and make sure he wa
t happened didn’t happen again.
cradled him in a fluffy duvet.
ing to say anything else.
e knew what he was meant to be.
id not feel safe with me.
here he was aware that I was not as strong as Aldrich, and
comparison now to his father.
ready to t
nst me.
prompted.
k his head.
derstanding smile, “I’ll ask you one more thing.
ld you like to color
He nodded.
standing smile, “I’ll ask you one more
color in this picture book?”
He nodded.
ustrated drawing of a tiger. He began to color it a deep midnight blue.
.
ogether, I think he will resume back to normal.”
dy and Alan came to the rescue. Now they’re gone and he’s terrified.”
I watched Theo defeatedly. “Sleep with him overnight. Get some rest.”
I smiled tiredly.
ll asleep hard and deep after a long lack of sleep.
frolicking in the lavender fields together.
***
e.
looking up and down the hallway. I was pretty
erge yet?
No one was awake yet; the corridor was hauntingly quiet. My heart involuntarily started to race, growing nervous at the emp
I turned around, seeing that he was fast asleep.
ome right back with blueberry muffins.
d to the guards, I had to make su
y arms. Something in my stomach felt wrong, the silence making me nauseous from the eeriness.
a’s door, lightly knocking.
ing, not even the distant clangor of kitchen tools.
though she was clearly annoyed to be awakened so early.
light alarm in her exasperation.
ing.”
at me, narrowing her eyes. “What is going on?”
to investigate.”
weird. Go do that, whatever it is, I don’t w
y. “I really appreciate all your help with Theo.”
,” she teased.
o’s room, I continued my silent and cautious trek down the hallway. All the way down the
s I descended the stairs, dread curled in my stomach.
rds. There was no way Aldrich would allow a lack of protection of all of us, even if it was day time. I wandered through the crimin
stolen from? Outraged, my anger beginning to simmer over m
eveal a nightmare.
h other, freshly wounded and killed. They either looked drained of blood or ripped into several pieces. I gasped, a cry falling out my lips.
t part.
lowly approached me, grinning murderously