#chapter239: Alone

My heart raced. They had to be talking about me. But what could they want with me now? The artifact… I was the other artifact. He probably wanted to keep me away from Candido to stop Ian or something even worse. I didn’t even know who this guy was, but I guessed he had to be another prince. If he was anything like Marius, I didn’t want anything to do with him. I turned and rushed into the craggy rocks. I heard people panicking ahead. “I don’t understand why they did nothing,” someone said. “Wasn’t that weird?” “It has to be some type of vampire trick. L-Like hypnosis or something.” “What do we do now?” A woman cried. “We don’t have a way to contact the king! We don’t have any weapons!” I turned the corner and found the small group of them huddled together. All of them were covered in blood. They looked at me and glared at me. “You’re supposed to be the next luna, right? Then, do something! Don’t you have a way to contact the king?” I reached into my pocket to pull out