Chapter 79

Lucas’s POV

8 Days Before the Execution.

12 AM

I looked out of the windows lost in thought, it's so dark out there, the sun has fully retired off the day yet the palace was anything but asleep. I stood by the window, arms folded across my chest.

Kieran's breathing was ragged in the bed behind me. I sighed heavily. The two of them, motionless, like they had no life in them. 

I could hear the soft murmurs of the royal healer, the shaman, as he prepared another potion neither of us believed would work. None of us had spoken for a while. What could be said?

Damian paced the room like he was ready to kill someone, fists clenched, fury written across every inch of his face. Harper sat close to Kieran, her face tight with fear and frustration, brushing d