Chapter 218
Chapter 218
LYRIC
I couldn’t get any sleep the entire night, and until morning, he still wasn’t back.
I was confused as much as I was scared. Something was definitely wrong with him. And the worst part? I didn’t know what to do.
By noon, I decided to do something crazy. I had to call Kael. If Jace had been captured or something, Kael should know.
My hands shook as I listened to the phone beep. What if they manage to track my phone or something? Kael might’ve helped me escape, but it didn’t mean he was going to keep covering my ass.
It didn’t matter. I needed to know what had happened with Jace.
The call was almost ending when Kael picked up.
“Lyric? Why are you calling?” He spoke in hushed tones.
“I’m sorry. It’s–It’s Jace. Has he been captured?” I nervously fumbled with my hair.
“What’re you talking about?! Captured by who?”
Oh, gods. This only meant he wasn’t captured. So, what happened to him?!
“Lyric? Talk to me!” He snapped.
“I–I don’t know. He just… he went out yesterday to get some stuff a—and he isn’t back yet. I don’t know, Kael.”
“Damn it. I knew this was a bad idea.”
An uneasy pause lingered in the air while I processed the situation.
“Do you think the Executioners got to him? Maybe they think he helped me escape and they—”
“That’s a possibility. They were already suspicious of him.”
“Oh, gods.” I pulled at my hair in frustration as I started pacing the room.
“What do we do, Kael? They might be torturing him!”
I refused to imagine how terrible it must be. Jace helpless with them. What if they end up killing him?
“I’ll try to get to them. See if they really took him.” Unfortunately, Kael’s words did little to calm me. I needed to know that Jace was fine, and I need to
know now.
“H–How soon can you get this done? You need to hurry, Kael.”
“Listen, Jace used me, okay? He didn’t tell me he was escaping with you. He didn’t reach out to me or even take my damn calls. Now, this happened? A lot has been happening here as well, Lyric. Honestly, I wish we didn’t have your issue to deal with.”
His sentence gripped me. What else has been happening?
“I’m sorry, Kael, but I didn’t want any of this to happen. I tried to get Jace to leave, he just wouldn’t–”
My words were cut short when I heard a familiar voice in the background.
“Come on. We need to get moving.”
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Time seemed to stop, as did my heart.
I only heard it over the phone, yet it was enough to make me feel like he’d whispered it in my ears.
“I’ll be with you shortly, King,” Kael replied.
My eyes turned glossy as I imagined Jaris walking away. For the first time.
over a week, he felt so close.
“I have to go. I’ll call you as soon as I get something.” Kael ended the call before I could say anything. Not like I had the strength to.
Until the following day, Jace was still not back.
I was tired of crying and felt sick already. Kael had become unreachable. I couldn’t help but fear that something terrible was happening beyond my knowledge.
I felt so alone and in the dark here. The world might be burning out there and I wouldn’t even know.
There was no more food stuff at home. I’d been starving since morning and needed
information on Jace.
Fortunately for me, he had left some cash behind.
to
go out there to find something to eat. Maybe I’d also get
I dressed up in a pair of black jeans, black hoodie and a face cap. Then, I left the house for the first time and kept walking until I came across the first
store.
Jace would kill me if he knew I left the house. Well, it was night. Maybe nobody would see me.
I kept my head down as I walked into the store. It was a little filled with people, making me uncomfortable. Thankfully, none of them were paying
attention to me.
I grabbed a basket, then proceeded to pick what I wanted from the shelves. I was as fast as I could be.
I noticed some men arguing around me. For a moment, I was scared they were talking about me.
Come on, Lyric; not everything is about you.
I tore my gaze away and proceeded to the counter to get my items/checked.
“The weather’s pretty cold, huh?” The man at the counter said.
“Yeah.”
He focused on checking my items. Seeing that he looked friendly….
“Um… would you happen to have seen my friend the day before?”
He gave me a furrowed look, “A lot of people come in here, you know. You’d have to be a little more specific.”
I went ahead to describe Jace.
“I think he comes in a few times. He’s quite funny. But I’m not sure I saw him two days ago.”
Every shred of hope I had vanished into thin air.
“What? He suddenly went missing?”
“Yeah. Um….I just went to his place and couldn’t find him. Don’t know what happened.”
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“You should probably take up the matter, then.”
I noticed movements in the store–people coming and leaving. I didn’t fail to look at every one of them, and that was how I knew when they entered
My blood turned to ice at the sight of the Executioners coming in. It was hard to miss a man like Cole.
I gasped and quickly looked away, wanting to hide my face from them. When I carefully looked again, I found them talking to some of the men in the store showing them a picture. They were looking for me!
“Your total bill is fifty three bucks, Ms,” the man said.
But I was barely listening to him.
“Ma’am?” He snapped my attention back to him.
“I’m–I’m sorry. I have to go.”
I moved immediately, walking to the backdoor.
“Hey! Excuse me, Ms!” Someone called behind me, stopping me dead in my
It wasn’t the attendant. It was one of the Executioners.
Hell, no!
“Can you turn around, please?”
tracks.
