Chapter 26
1034 Words
Yasmyn's POV
There is something terribly wrong here. People are not the same anymore. Everything is different and everything is overwhelming.
Just yesterday I was here waiting for the doctors to tell me that Adi is safe. And that he is out of danger.
And today I am here at the same spot to know that Vernon is safe.
Raul is locked away in the palace. Not in the prison or the dungeon. I don't want people panicking wondering what's going on with the Royal family.
They need not have to know the entire family drama. First, I will need to talk to Raul myself before he walks around putting our family's reputation at stake.
I hope Vernon would be alright. I have to meet Silas this midnight and I don't have much time.
Adi is on the bed. Selena is at the palace looking after our parents. Vernon is currently taking treatment and Raul is locked away.
I feel all alone and now more than ever, I feel I had someone genuine with me. I never had any friends. I had one fling and it turned out to be the Rogue King. Let's not talk about that now.
And my mate? Yeah. Well. He rejected me.
"But you didn't," my wolf chimed in and I rolled my eyes.
I didn't reject him back, but that doesn't I will take him back just because I felt lonely.
I would rather pet a dog.
The doctors walked in and they don't have the expression I was expecting to see on their faces.
"We did everything we can, Your Majesty. But the silver broke almost half of his nervous system. His veins have more silver than the average werewolf who can tolerate silver in their system. We can't say if he will or will not be alright," one of them said.
And just like that, the last brick fell down. Like Raul said earlier. It's like watching the wall fall down to the ground brick by brick, and there is nothing we can do but to stare at it wondering what could be done.
Now, with Vernon on bed and the uncertainty about him.. that's the last brick. That's the last strand of patience I am going to have.
I sighed and asked the doctors to do their job. Vernon will be here in the hospital till he would be alright. No matter how many hours, days, weeks or even years. I am not going to lose my hopes on him.
The clock was almost striking midnight and I couldn't wait a second more.
Silas is the only one I can and will rely on at the moment. Sure Brendan did give me a long speech about how he is all about protecting me now. But I just want to know what is happening through Silas. Why he is away and why he wants to talk to me now of all times.
The walk to the clearing was dreadful. I couldn't stop thinking about the worse case scenarios and my mind kept replaying every single possibility.
What if Silas is here to tell me that Raul is the one who had gone crazy and did unimaginable things, prompting my family to choose me as the next heir?
What if he is here to tell me that he has no idea what's happening and back then when he said the walls have ears, he was only joking about it.?
And I have so many bizzare theories too.
What if Silas walks out of shadows and claims that he is the one I've been searching for and he is here to kill me too.?
I kept telling myself that Silas is the one to trust, but after everything that's been happening in my family.. I don't know who to trust anymore.
Silas was already waiting for me in the clearing. He has a cloak over his body, that's pitch black. It was almost blending into the darkness itself.
He looked relieved when he saw me. I looked around to see if Brendan is here but he is not.
So much for protecting me.
"How have you been?" He asked me and I scoffed at him.
"You are asking me that question? Seriously?" I asked him back and watched a frown make it's way on to his face.
"There is a reason I am staying away. I cannot reveal that," he said and that made me feel more angrier than I was earlier.
What is with everyone and their secrets here?
"Then you shouldn't have come here, Silas. I don't have time to entertain anyone who doesn't serve a purpose to me. So I am sorry if I am cutting this meet short. I'm leaving," I said and turned around but something that Silas said later made me stop dead on my tracks.
I slowly turned around to face him. With my eyes wide.
"Raul isn't the killer," Silas said.
How the heck does he know what happened between closed walls? I made sure not to talk about it. I even locked Raul in the palace and not the prison.
So how the heck does he know about it? And why does he have an opinion on who is what? I saw Raul with the dagger and a heated argument happening between Vernon and Raul.
My mind is in a frenzy. I don't know who to trust anymore and that now includes Silas too. With he and his indirect ways of feeding me information is starting to irritate me.
"You are sick and I don't want to talk to you too," I said but Brendan's scent from behind me made me feel aware without turning around.
"Maybe you should listen to him," Brendan said.
"I cannot understand why you are siding with him of all people.! You barely know him," I shook my head at Brendan.
My eyes landed on Silas again as he opened his mouth to tell me the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
I thought of thousand possibilities on what Silas would say but what he said now wasn't on my bingo card. Wasn't on anyone's bingo card.
He literally said...
"I am your father"
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