Chapter 67

Ryker and I were on our feet in an instant. He had to put Aurora down first before we made our way to the front of the palace where the message lay. I was expecting a box or something to point out that I had gotten a parcel but instead, there was a page glued to the wall on the side of the palace. I ripped it off and skimmed through the contents and it took me two lines to realize that it was a page from a journal.

“Does anyone know how it got here?” I asked but everyone stayed silent. I could feel Ryker quietly hovering over me so I handed him the letter.

He read it through in a quick second and I could see his brow furrow.

“How did he get his hands on this?” he kept his voice deliberately soft so only I would hear. I shrugged and he turned and handed it over to Kevin. “Take this to the elders and tell them to figure out how authentic it is.”

Once Kevin had disappeared, it was just us and the guards who were manning the front gate. Everyone kept their eyes to the ground because they knew we were pis sed. I didn’t- couldn’t form any words because I was too busy thinking about the contents of that page. Judging by the signature at the bottom of the page, it belonged to my father and in it, he spoke about his son and how he was happy that he had one seeing as my mother could not grant him one.

“How the hell did he get in?” you could hear the barely restrained anger coming off from Ryker and everyone knew better than to respond. “You have one job and that is to keep the people in this building safe. How do you expect to do that if you cannot keep people out?”

There was a chorus of apologies but I wasn’t bothered with listening to it. I wringed my fingers together wanting nothing more than to get out of there. While Ryker was talking to them, I turned on my heels and walked away I could feel everyone’s eyes on me but I couldn’t bring myself to care. I made my way to the private living room and I saw Christine there. She looked like she was searching for something and when she saw me, she jumped.

“Is everything okay?” she asked and I nodded. “I heard that things aren’t exactly going well today.”

“I have a theory that I want you to listen to,” I began and she immediately settled into a chair.

“I’m listening.”“Frederick is getting into the palace somehow. If he isn’t using the doors, then how?”

“Does he have someone on the inside that’s helping him?”

“I thought about that but it can’t be.copy right hot novel pub