The Peacock

“Your Grace…”

“Hmm…”

“It’s time to wake up… We have to prepare or we will be late…”

“Late for what?”

I waited for Nina to answer my question but when she didn’t, I opened my right eye and looked at her worried face.

That’s when I got curious why she wanted me to get up this too early in the morning.

“What’s happening, Nina? I was not informed that there is something special today.” I asked her, rubbing the sleepiness of my eyes and carefully propping my body from the soft bed. I don’t usually wake up this early so I am still tired, especially when Aster was being a bully last night. I don’t know how long he was lying with me on my bed last night…

Did he do something while I was out of consciousness? Nothing seems wrong with my body though, except the stab wound on the side of my body which is still healing. Me, being unable to shift into and having an inner wolf trapped inside me makes it hard for me to heal fast, no matter how fast a shifter should heal. The nervousness I saw in he