Chapter 63: Illness and Suffering
“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 me this way,” Prince Darius said before walking on ahead.
He turned around to make sure that I was following after him. The prince led me along a hallway before leading me 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 seemed 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 me,” Prince Darius said when he saw me hesitating.
Suddenly, I halted in my step again when I thought that I heard something like a growl. Darius must have heard it as well because he turned towards me as if to check if I had heard it as well. Darius reached out his hand and offered it to me; 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 time that I’d heard those growls and it wasn’t really the first time that I had traveled down this hallway at night. In reality, it might have been my first time; however, that dream that I had recently was still fresh in my mind. For some reason, it felt like I was reliving my dream but this time in the real world.