19 - Escape

"What are you looking at?" Matthias looked at me, who seemed uneasy sitting beside him.

Because I had my head turned this way and that with my hand blocking the carriage door from closing.

"Hey, what are you looking for?" he asked again impatiently, not just getting ignored by me.

"I'm looking for your mate," I said indifferently. I continued to trace the entire palace from inside the carriage, from the garden courtyard to the front of the palace, and speculated.

I wondered if Estella could have seen the two of us kissing earlier.

"Blame yourself for kissing me with such impudence," I retorted. And I brushed off his hand that wanted to pull my body to stop looking around. "I'm afraid that I'm going to misunderstand Estella. I'm afraid she'll think I've been flirting with her Alpha."

"She's not here," he said, who had been sitting quietly beside me with his face bent. "Nathaniel and Arthur are taking her somewhere."

"What?" I said, who was shocked.

So Estella hadn't been in the palace