Chapter 41

Ashton's POV 5 days. 13 hours. 0 minutes. 1 second... 2 seconds... 3 seconds... Elizabeth had been gone for five days, thirteen hours, zero minutes, seven seconds... eight seconds... nine seconds... I knew she was still alive. I had gotten her message- CAV IS IN TROUBLE OA. She was here. She had been here, and I had missed her by mere hours. "I see Prince CaVaughn still hasn't returned from his trip to Gregoria." Ron Michaels, the prime minister of Crysauralia casually stated as his rapacious eyes roamed the meeting room before eventually landing on me. "After spending so much time away from the country of his birth, one would think that he would want to be here." I tried my best to wear a calm expression as he took his seat at the round table. Of all the times to have to have this meeting, the timing couldn't have been worse. Elizabeth was still missing and I should be out there searching for her, but instead I was here, wasting time