Illness and Suffering

“I’m sorry for calling you out so late at night like this but there is an urgent matter that we need your help with,” the prince explained apologetically.

“If I can be of help then…” I murmured.

“Please follow me this way,” Prince Darius said before walking on ahead.

He turned around to make sure that I was following after him. The prince led me along a hallway before leading me up a few flights of stairs. After turning and entering a luxuriously decorated hallway, I suddenly realized that I had been here before. I walked past the statue that I had paid attention to before during my last visit to this palace.

My tummy seemed to flip as my heart started dancing and fluttering in my chest. Why am I feeling this way?

If I wasn’t wrong, it was probably because I had just realized that at the end of this long hallway was Prince Leonard’s bedroom.

“Follow me,” Prince Darius said when he saw me hesitating.

Suddenly, I halted in my step again when I thought that I heard something like a