Chapter 274 – Bitter
The silence was loud.
Kaden stopped mid-step as Sabine's words registered inside his head. His mind went blank for a second, and in that second, he imagined the worst thing that could happen if Eliot truly died.
Rea.
Immediately, his thoughts went to her, making his heart race in trepidation before he cracked his lips open, his throat dry as sand in a desert, and spoke,
"W-What?" His voice came out shakier than he expected. "Die?" he echoed, hoping, that he had misheard.
But he hadn't.
Sabine herself was sweating, her breathing ragged as if she had run five whole kilometers under a furious sun. "Yes, young master," she stammered.
"But weren't my parents and Lady Mayari keeping tabs on his situation closely?" he asked, his tone broken and disbelieving. "How is it possible for him to be about to die?"
What was going on?
