Chapter 90. He Was Wrong

“Please tell me I am seeing things, and that my son isn’t standing next to the one thing he should be avoiding!” Madeline spoke, dramatically flinging her hands into the air as she took elegant strides into the room, charging towards her son.

Madeline had watched Lancelot slip out of the palace in the earlier hours of this morning; just immediately after his meeting with Edward. Deep down, she had prayed and hoped, even forced herself to believe that Lancelot was attending official duties. However, after she sent trusted men after him, she realised the reverse was the case.

Lancelot was reported to be in the hospital. Her son was no doctor or salutory wolf, so, he would have been in the hospital for one reason only; to see someone.

Throughout the drive to the hospital, even with her second son by her side, Madeline found it hard to set her thoughts straight. She continued to hope - for Lancelot’s sake more than hers - that he was not at the hospital to see that...d