Chapter 136

“This was what you meant all along! That was exactly what you meant all along! And I thought you were losing your mind! Oh, Creator! I should have seen this all along!”

Remeta watched her mother without saying a word. Baski was trying to put two and two together. She remembered yesterday they were picking herbs in the bush. Her daughter had felt Danika’s pain even from afar. She remembered how Remeta dropped everything she was doing and ran out to where Danika was.

Did that mean that her daughter had some special ability or something? Baski filed it away as she realized Remeta said she was worried.

Baski held Remeta’s hand in reassurance. “Tell me, dear. Tell me why you’re so worried.”

“It’s the prince. The future---” she cut off suddenly. “I still don’t know if he will stay,” she whispered.

King Lucien tried to lay his pounding head down and sleep, but sleep remained elusive. He wasn’t surprised, but still he tried. When he finally slept, his nightmare