His watchman

~Lucas Pov~

I was gloomy when I met with Damien. Did Viola listens to gossip now and she believes them? That Damien was a beast as everyone thought.

They had no clue what made him go crazy, I had almost thought I would lose him too.

I had to stay strong for him and pull him back to his feet when he falls. Take care of him when he was sick and nurse him back to health.

I make sure he eats and never stays hungry, and when he starts having nightmares of dead people and his own dead families he couldn’t sleep at night anymore.

Each night he’s woken up with a start.

Screams and cries, he sees Jolene, he sees his sister Mila and the baby he had pictured in his mind, they were having.

Damien almost went nuts.

It was devastating.

And a few years he stayed alone in the woods, killing rogues.

That was how it went for a few years ago, we came back to our homelands and Damien became King. Only now, he smiles faintly, he makes a little joke though the nightmares never stop and it led to h