strictlysupreme Chapter 196: Getting caught
Chapter 196: Getting caught
Chapter 196: Getting caughtAve didn’t know for how long she was in that room with the dead body, but she didn’t allow herself to drift into the sleep that was threatening to take over her as the minutes ticked by and turned to hours. The sun had set long ago, and she sat in one position inside the dark room without moving nor adjusting her legs that were hurting from the long hours she had been sitting for. Her eyes burned from how much she kept staring at the body, willing some miracle would happen and the girl would wake up.
But no matter how much she wished for a miracle, nothing happened; the body remained unmoving and completely still. Though Ave could no longer see her face because of the darkness, she could make out the outline of the body. The sight was unsettling, and the guilt that stabbed at her heart made her wish she could turn back time and avoid hitting her with the vase.
Ave’s emotions were hanging on a thin thread, and she knew if she were to let them out, her guilt and fear might cloud her mind and make her get caught in the room with the body. She had remained as still as possible when some of the palace guards had decided to wander over to this part of the palace to eat their dinner and talk about their experience with some of the palace maids they sneaked to the forest to have a few pleasure-filled moments.
It seemed they were so comfortable that minutes had passed by, and they still remained there, discussing and laughing. This part of the palace was deserted because the people here seemed to believe wherever Lyria had stayed before her death was cursed; however, to the guards, it was the most private place they could talk and eat without the royals seeing them slacking.
It was a surprise an alarm hadn’t gone off about the princess missing, because if it had, these guards wouldn’t be slacking here talking about their personal lives to each other; they would be