Nicholas POV
3 Hours Ago...
After hours of being chained and bound inside a dark cell, two guards approached me.
They were tall and heavily built with thick muscles that could have made any bodybuilder envious. Both of them observed me for a moment, pure disdain in their glowing red eyes as they took me in. “Filthy parasite,” one of them spat. “The King has asked for you.” “Parasite?” I let out a breathless laugh that I instantly regretted the moment pain tore through my aching body. “That’s quite the insult coming from a pair of cockroaches.”
The silver bullet was still lodged deep inside my shoulder, burning with vicious ferocity as it slowly poisoned me from within.
Still, I couldn’t show weakness.
Not here.
So I swallowed the pain down and forced myself to stand straighter. One
