“I’m sorry for calling you out so late at night like this but there is an urgent matter that we need your help with,” the prince explained apologetically.
“If I can be of help then...” I murmured.
“Please follow this way,” Prince Darius said before walking on ahead.
He turned around to make sure that I was following after him. The prince led along a hallway before leading up a few flights of stairs. After turning and entering a luxuriously decorated hallway, I suddenly realized that I had been here before. I walked past the statue that I had paid attention to before during my last visit to this palace.
My tummy seed to flip as my heart started dancing and fluttering in my chest. Why am I feeling this way?
If I wasn’t wrong, it was probably because I had just realized that at the end of this long hallway was Prince Leonard’s bedroom.
“Follow ,” Prince Darius said when he saw hesitating.
Suddenly, I halted in my step again when I thought that I heard sothing like a growl. Darius must have heard it as well because he turned towards as if to check if I had heard it as well. Darius reached out his hand and offered it to ; however, I refused to take it.
He must have been confused why I was so hesitant about proceeding along this hallway. Unbeknownst to him, this wasn’t the first ti that I’d heard those growls and it wasn’t really the first ti that I had traveled down this hallway at night. In reality, it might have been my first ti; however, that dream that I had recently was still fresh in my mind. For so reason, it felt like I was reliving my dream but this ti in the real world.
My eyes stared at Prince Darius’ face when I started sensing that sothing was gravely wrong. Prince Darius’ face gave absolutely nothing away. This was reality and not my dream so that didn’t an that the things that I dreamt of will really happen. That was what I tried to tell myself; however, the painful throbbing in my chest told that I was just fooling myself.
Deep down, I knew.
I just knew that sothing was wrong...
“Mila!” Prince Darius called my na loudly after .
I must have surprised him as much as I had just surprised myself when my legs began moving on my own. Before I could fully understand what I was doing, I was already sprinting down the hallway toward Prince Leonard’s bedroom. My mories from the last ti that I was here weren’t so clear and I had only been to his bedroom once. If I wasn’t wrong, all I had to do was go down this hallway until its very end.
The sound of my heart racing in my chest echoed in my ears as I kept on running. Unlike in my dream, I didn’t hesitate to move forward. If I was right, if what I dreamt of was really happening, then the prince needs help. It’s probably not true but the fastest way for to find out is to go and see him. That was the simple conclusion that I reached in my head before or after my body began moving on its own, I had no idea.
The harsh growl echoed louder in the hallway as I got closer to his bedroom. The pain in his cries tore at my heart. In reality, I couldn’t feel his pain, or at least, I wasn’t supposed to feel it. However, each ti his cry rang out, I felt a clear pain shoot through . If I could feel this much pain just from hearing his cries and growls, then how much pain would he be in right now?
I didn’t pay any attention to my surroundings or to Prince Darius until I arrived at the large door of Prince Leonard’s bedroom. That was when I realized that the prince had no trouble catching up with and unlike , he wasn’t panting for his life. Now that I was here, I wasn’t sure what to do.
Do I just knock and ask him to open the door for so that I could see for myself that he was fine?
A loud groan that ca from the opposite side of the door told that things were not fine and even if Prince Leonard told that he was fine, I would probably have trouble believing his words.
“Prince Darius...” I called his na as I turned to face him.
Surely, he can explain to what was going on. The prince closed his eyes and let out a sigh before opening them. His gray eyes had turned even more stern and serious than it was before as he stared down into my face.
“My brother, Prince Leonard, is sick,” Prince Darius stated simply.
“Prince Leonard...is sick?” I asked as I started to panic.
“Yes, he’s not feeling well...” the prince replied.
I stared back at him dumbfounded. If Prince Leonard is sick, then...
“We should call for a royal doctor imdiately...” I quickly proposed.
My suggestion sounded shallow and stupid once it left my lips. Prince Darius must have already known that he was supposed to call one of the royal doctors. So, why hasn’t he done exactly that?
“Listen, Mila. I might be wrong, but I don’t think that I am...” the prince began to explain.
“Wrong about what? Prince Leonard needs a doctor imdiately,” I cut in because I didn’t want to waste any more ti.
The painful groans from behind the door did not subside at all and if I wasn’t wrong, it has only gotten more frequent as well as louder as ti passed by while we were not doing anything to help him.
“Mila, the doctors have done their best to help him for a long ti already...” Prince Darius said and for a mont there was a flash of sadness in his grey eyes.
Why does it sound so...
“Is the prince...” I began asking but I just couldn’t say it.
Is he...dying?
--To be continued...
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