The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 709

---- If Lavinia had been taken through here, my poor child must have been terrified.

Panting, my clothes clinging to my sweat-drenched body, dirty and still shaken, I finally emerged into a slightly more open space.

Still small, but I couldnt see much around meit felt circular.

T looked up; faint beams of light filtered down from high above, many, many meters overhead.

Was this the bottom of an empty well? It seemed so, but nowhow do I climb up? There had to bea ladder, maybe another dumbwaiter, I didnt know.

Though reluctant, I had no choice but to start feeling the cold walls blindly.

I nearly vomited when my fingers sank into something slimylike mold mixed with filth, wet, disgusting, slippery.

"Aah!" Lyanked my hand back, shaking it wildly as something crawled up my arm.

"Please, show up soon.

whispered, running my hands frantically

shook it off, trying not to

struggling against the darkness ---- At last! Covered in grime, trembling, and itching from bites, my hands latched onto a cold metal

anchored to the wells wall! I clung to it, placed my feet on the lower rungsthey seemed sturdyand began climbing toward what I hoped

"You can do this.

on, Kath, you're almost there," I encouraged

into the

from this height would be fatalI couldnt imagine how they had

climbing and finally

filtered through

with one hand, I stretched out the other, praying they hadnt weighed down the exit with something too

strengthit was heavy, but it

I began sliding it