Chapter 158

• Lucas clenched the letter in his hand and immediately turned back to their cabin. Anna followed him with Patrick and Enzo on her heel. They closed the door and Lucas ripped open the letter to read it quickly. Her heart pounded roughly in her chest, who had sent Lucas a letter all the way out here?
• `There had never been a silence so loud to her own ears. When he finished, he looked up at all of them with a distant expression. She hated when he looked like that. She feared she could never reach him.
• “Something happened at the palace. There’s some sort of plague that has broken out while we’ve been gone.” Lucas said, clearly in shock. That was truly the last thing she had expected to hear.