Chapter Fourteen

[Tyler’s POV]

“For the last time, Maynard, where is the Omega slave?” I thundered.

With tears in his eyes, he looked up to me as blood dripped from his forehead to the floor. “I promise, your highness, I don’t know where she is. I was guarding the entire place throughout and she never left her cell. I don’t know how she suddenly disappeared,” he said.

Maynard was the person who guarded Nivera’s cell, and he had been the first to raise an alarm that she had gone missing. It all didn’t make sense to me, and that was why I had insisted that he be tortured. Someone had to pay the price for her disappearance, and he seemed like the appropriate person to do that.

The guards I had sent a few hours ago to search the whole town for her came back, and as much as I looked at them, I couldn’t see Nivera among them.

“Where is she?” I fired at them before they even got the chance to come closer to me.

“I am sorry, your highness,” the chief guard, Larry, said, hanging his head low.

“So, what you’re