It was dead in the night, I suddenly snapped my eyes open when I heard a distinct sound resonating from outside the door like sounds of heavy things falling on the floor at once, and when I heard a painful groan I was certain that it was not things plopping on the ground but bodies. I sat up from the bed to call for prince Lucius, immediately putting my gaze in front where he was last seen sitting on the couch before I went ahead and dozed off on the bed.
He was not there.
I felt my heart drop as I heard rattling sounds from the door, someone was trying to pry it open, forceful even. With a big hop, I landed on the floor from the bed and immediately went to the balcony to look for someone, anyone patrolling the area but nobody was there, not even the guards that were usually walking arou
