The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 707

---- I stumbled up the stairs, my dress tangling around my legs, but I never stopped.

I reached a corridor that split into two.

Ihesitated, ---- feeling lost.

Once again, I shut my eyes, focusing, trying to "sense" and trust my instincts.

That way," I whispered, starting to run.

I could almost see that thin red line before my eyes, like a thread tying us together.

Ireached the end of a secluded wing one I had never been in before.

I didn't know why, but it looked somewhat abandoned.

Aheavy door blocked my way, but I noticed it was slightly open he must have come through here! I stepped inside cautiously, in case he was setting up an ambush, and scanned what looked like the antechamber of a room.

I checked behind the door suddenlynothing.

The path was clear, so I moved forward, step by step, on high alert.

away now! I pleaded internally

But where could he go? This place seemed

bed, in the neglected bathroom, even inside the

of dust and time greeted

gone? Where?! A secret passage? A hidden tapestry? A trapdoor? Nothing nothing, damn it! Then suddenly, a metal square embedded in the wall, well hidden,

a discreet

an old service

L approached, the burn on my hand pulsedhe had

my hand

around, grabbed a heavy vase filled with

my makeshift weapon, I finally reached for the

the round handle and pulled it down, my heart pounding like a drum at

even stepped back slightlybut nothing could have prepared me

Only an empty space.

far too large to be just a

staring into the dark, square, claustrophobic hole sinking deep into

poured down

one of the doctors treatments was locking me ina tiny room like thisfor

I whispered to

every inch of