Chapter 219: Night Conversation
**The next evening**
The night of the full moon is fast approaching...
The promise that Prince Leonard made to spend that night with me had me staring up at the moon every single night before going to bed as if bounded by an unbreakable spell. Everyone could see that the moon was almost full. My heart leapt in my chest at the thought that this natural phenomenon would really occur every month without fail and so would the events associated to it.
Even standing on my balcony at night with the night wind howling all around me couldn’t cool down the heat that had started spreading in the pit of my stomach. The moonlight shining down from above made me think of Prince Leonard and everything that he said and did to me. My body seemed to have natural reactions of its own to the cycle of the moon just like it had been ingrained to be part of my biological system. At least, that was what I thought because I couldn’t find another explanation for what was happening to my body. The heat and throbbing in my core that seemed to intensify with each passing moment along with the tightness in my chest.
“Mila...”
I turned around at the sound of someone calling my name softly. Salena was standing there in her plain white nightgown, and she seemed ready for bed. Her presence broke my chain of thought, and I quickly made my way back inside.
“Salena. Is something the matter?” I asked simply because her face was as white as paper.
“Oh, nothing. I...just wanted to check on you. It is late so...I just thought that you should go to bed,” she replied.
I thought that it was kind of her to be worried about me; however, something told me that that wasn’t the only reason that she had decided to drop by to see me. The fact that she was alone without Jessie was another hint that I didn’t fail to realize. Salena was extremely timid and speaking her mind must have been very difficult for her. Knowing that, I was all the more worried that she may be going through some trouble but had difficulty telling me about it. I didn’t know if I could help her, but I still wanted her to confide in me.