~Theo~
I wiped my hand clean on a white handkerchief, shaking off the last remnants of the blood clinging to me.
“What’s going on?” I asked, turning to the guards.
One of the guards who had gone to check out the alarm, stumbled forward. “The palace vault, My Prince. It’s on fire!”
My body stiffened as I listened to the guard speak. The vault was close to where Storme’s body had been taken. If that was where she was, then there's a huge possibility that the fire might burn her body as well.
Without another thought, I broke into a sprint.
“Theo!” Fred’s voice rang out behind me. “It’s dangerous! Storme is already dead. The fire burning her body won’t matter now.”
But it mattered to me. Even in death, she deserved peace. Not this.
I shoved past the chaos, dodging the guards as they wo
