Filed to story: Loving You In My Final Days
It had been hours but the end of the tunnel seemed to be unreachable. She was slow because of the darkness and her throat had dried up. She wanted water so badly.
She had long stopped thinking and all she did was continue hobbling along in the dark. Her mind had gone hazy. She was exhausted. She felt like her body had gone numb.
The flute was still playing. Although she felt like the sound was getting a little louder in her ear, she could tell that the source was still far.
How much longer would it take for her to reach the end? Could she reach the end before she passed out?
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At last, dawn came.
Kai and Kelly were already back. The cars that left last night had nothing to do about Abi’s disappearance and the girl was nowhere to be found outside the palace.
Everyone in the palace was extremely tense.
They were all gathered in the throne room. Nobody went to sleep that night. They couldn’t believe that a single commoner girl would be able to rock the entire house of Reign just like that.
As the sky started to lighten, the dread in everyone’s heart was getting out of control.
At that moment, someone entered and whispered something to the king’s ear. The crown prince, Ezekiel, was reportedly nowhere to be found outside the country.
The King felt like fainting. This was the time they needed his son the most. How could he disappear at this crucial moment? Wait… could it be that he was already in the country?
King Livius knew that his son, Ezekiel, was another peculiar man like Alexander. He was the type of man who wouldn’t even appear on his father’s birthday. Despite being like that, the king believed that his son already knew what was happening. The only question was, why had he not shown himself yet? His family was in great trouble!
While the King was trying to figure out what to do, someone entered the throne room again. When they saw who it was, the King and the rest looked like they had seen hope itself. It was because the man who entered was Ezekiel’s most trusted right hand man.
However, to everyone’s surprise, the man didn’t walk towards the king. Instead he walked towards Alexander, who had just kicked the west door open with a bang as he entered the throne room as if he was some ruthless invader.
Zeke’s right hand man didn’t flinch at Alexander’s presence as he approached him.
Alex, on the other hand, immediately laid his eyes towards the man who was reaching out a note as he slightly bowed to him.
Alexander didn’t waste a moment and took the note.
The moment he read it, time seemed to have stood still and like a lightning strike, Alexander disappeared from the room, leaving everyone dumbstruck.
Was this crisis finally solved? Was the girl already found?!
But, was she alive?
In no time, Alexander arrived at the foot of the hill.
The place was forested and steep, but Alex found the exact spot written on the note in no time at all, as if he didn’t need to even have to search for it.
The moment he stood there, Alex’s blazing eyes fell towards the man who was nonchalantly playing the flute as he sat on the grass with his left knee folded, while he leaned against a wall right next to an old wooden door that was already decaying.
“Zeke.” Alex squinted his eyes as he glared down at him. However, Zeke simply looked up at him, unfazed, as he continued playing the flute, as coolly as ever.
Alex was about to approach the man when suddenly, his eyes were drawn towards the old door beside him.
With just that, Alex finally realized the reason why Zeke was here and why he was playing. He remembered that the last time he heard Zeke play a flute was back when he was a teenager when they were playing in the castle and had gotten lost. So seeing him playing now was strange and could only mean one thing – that there was a secret passage inside that dungeon that led to this exit that only Ezekiel knew about.
Alex rushed towards the door when suddenly, the door moved as he heard a sound coming from the inside.
However, before Alex could reach it, the door fell forward, halting him in his tracks, barely missing him.
His gaze flew towards the entrance and his eyes widened as he saw someone holding onto the door frame.
“A-abigail…” he uttered as the music stopped.
Abigail was blinded by the light so her head was turned towards her right as if to hide from the bright light. She was trembling. Her mind was no longer working. She didn’t know if the brightness that flooded her eyes meant that she finally got outside or if she had actually died and had gone to heaven.
She noticed that the music had stopped. What did that mean? Was it over? She forced her eyes to open but then darkness slowly swallowed her whole before she could even lift her eyelids open.
“Abigail!” Alex called out as he caught her in his arms. He immediately looked for a pulse and he was utterly relieved when he felt her heart still beating and that she was still breathing. Alex felt like the spirit of life that had left his body entirely when he saw her collapse, had now returned.
At that moment, he didn’t even realize that he was hugging her so tightly.
“Easy, Alex… or you’ll end up squeezing her to death,” Zeke said, nonchalantly, as he stood up, causing Alex to finally realize what he was doing.
“It looks like your little lamb is not as fragile as you think, Alex,” Zeke added before he moved towards him and patted his shoulder.
