Her Unwanted Mate On The Throne

Chapter 136 The fear of abandonment

They managed to slip back to their room without getting caught. His guards must not have heard them like she first thought-or perhaps they did and they were avoiding them. For that she was more than grateful. The last thing she needed was to be embarrassed to be around his guards.

The next morning, Doris woke to an empty bed. She pulled herself up and bundled in several layers of warm clothes before she ventured out of their room. It was eerie how quiet the house was, she bet the entire village was exactly the same-one big ghost town.

“There she is.” Enzo leaned against the doorframe to his room. He looked as if he had been dragged through hell. Did she look that terrible when she woke up? And William still wanted to sleep with her?

expected it to be.

“Much better, though I did have some rather nasty dreams.” He frowned. “I think my village burned down and I could only watch.”

“Oh my-that’s terrible.” Doris pressed her lips together and gazed down the hall. “Is anyone else up?”

“You’re the first person I’ve seen today. I was starting to think you all left me.” Enzo pulled on a sweater and went to open another bedroom door without knocking. Doris parted her lips to object, but the room was empty.

“That’s… strange.” Doris went to the next room and did the same. Empty. All the rooms were empty. “Where could they be? The villagers should still be sleeping.”

Enzo gave her a confused glance. “Did they take the same thing we did?”

“Yes. William and I handed them out last night, they should be asleep for a day or so more.” Doris brushed past him and hurried down the steps. No one was there, the fire wasn’t even lit. “Where could they be?”

Enzo took his time getting down the stairs. He looked around curiously. “Perhaps they went to check on them.”

“All of them?” Doris pulled on her boots and ventured out into the snow. The fog had lessened and it didn’t seem like the storm had stuck around for long, but it was hard to walk through the fresh inches.

her search through the cabins. Just as she had thought, they were all sleeping and not one person was awake in any of the buildings. Her

in their room? Or was it only her own? Doris ran to the stables and saw

Once his panting slowed, he seemed to deflate from

hollowness enter her chest, she wanted to sink to the floor and disappear. “Do you

She felt as if her world was

go? What would they be getting if the entire village is recovering?” Doris stomped back towards the cabin. Her hands closed into

Maybe he left a note back at the cabin.” Cordelia said gently as if she was trying to tame a bear. Doris

better have. I don’t know why he didn’t tell me last

you wanted him to tell you?” Cordelia purred. Doris wished she could smack

when we were going to bed. Surely he could have mentioned that

there.” Cordelia said quickly. The thoughts already swarmed her mind and started

to abandon them. He wanted to go back to the palace and they wanted to stay and help. Perhaps he even thought they were much too

Surely they wouldn’t have wanted to leave their leader, they were only here to

from William. She needed

Nothing.

and collapsed onto one of the couches. He

across from him and stared into the

 – “I wonder how he would feel to wake up alone without a reason why.” Doris whispered. She tried to block out images of her home life and forget that she knew what

much. I would try to be patient.” Enzo said gently. He leaned forward to grip her freezing hand. “Although, if you choose to scream at him the second

head away. “What if he just got impatient

a hundred years, my dear. If you think about any of the things

the horrible feeling that he had abandoned them in this random village. Even when half of her knew Enzo was right and he would be back soon. But where had