Chapter 278: Missing From The Palace
Ivan quickly made his way down the spiraling stairs to the ground floor.
It took some time before he located the kitchen, as he wasn’t the type who frequents it, but upon entering, his eyes trailed to the water-filled jug on the counter, whilst he moved closer to scrutinize it. This jug... it was the same jug his little lamb had brought down to fill, but when he looked around, scouting the perimeters to confirm if she was nearby, his wife was, unbelievably, nowhere to be seen.
"Where did she go?" His eyebrows creased in unsettlement, a flicker of worry reflecting in his irises at her sudden disappearance.
The sensation that woke him up... Did it come from her??
"Sam!" He called her name, his tone laced with urgency as he searched the vicinity where he presumed she might have ventured into. His heart drummed when he checked all the recommended places, but found her absence instead. What’s strange, he was starting to lose grip of her presence– it felt like her scent was fading, consequently growing fainter and fainter, no matter how hard he tried to follow it.
It’s... impossible! How can he lose her scent?
"Sam?"
His constant calling of her name already had the butler stepping out of his chamber to meet Ivan. He held an oil lamp in his hand, and the mid-night weather was cold, whilst he had covered himself with a shawl and joined Ivan who had stepped into the courtyard. He found the vampire pacing back and forth, seemingly panicking about who knows what!
"Your Majesty? Is there an issue?" Asked Albert who noticed the evident concern on Ivan’s bewitching face. Ivan had stopped rubbing his eyebrows and was glad to see Albert who had entered the courtyard.