CHAPTER 36 PART I

"The king is waiting for you." Isabelle said after the long-stretched silence with both of us lost in our own thoughts. I did not even want to go to the ball anymore yet I had to. All this suddenly seemed insignificant with the threat of war looming in the air. I wanted to scream, to freak out yet I found myself calmly walking out of the door with it closing behind me. Four men stood at the door, waiting to escort me to the king. The four vampires bowed, making a circle around me as I walked. I looked but could not see, everything seeming to be in slow motion as the click of my heels echoed all over the hall with my hips swaying, my eyes blinking with my mind absent.

The elevator was swiftly scanned before the two guards came back to give a thumbs-up that it was clear. We all ushered in the elevator, my head turning, watching all of them with their bowed heads wondering what would happen to them if this war did come knocking at our doors. My mind drifted to if the king knew and how h