All Chapters of Caught In The Shadow King's Web: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

I clutched the hospital files the doctor handed to me as I departed the area and refused to glance at my numb legs.The scenery blurred into each other as the car sped down the road and tears filled my eyes.I sniffed and blinked them off before they had a chance to fall down.I wasn't going to wallow in grief over my lost legs.Not until after I had the chance to see the elders and explain my absence.I gritted my teeth as the frustration of losing my cell phone gnawed at me.The hospital lines to the palace barely got through and when one eventually did it was brutally silenced.Uncle would be so worried and even more shocked when he sees the state I was in.I pressed the ball of my hands against my eyes and stifled another stream of tears from coming out.The doctor said there was a thirty percent chance I was able to recover my legs.Thirty percent was too little to hold on to but I clung tightly to that h]ope.And if I didn't regain my legs, I was just going to make do with life

"Stabbing yourself was a very bad idea, Sera.Is that how badly you don't want to help your dear Uncle?Remember how I took care of you."As my eyes struggled to come back to focus, memories assaulted me. How much I clung to him after losing my parents, how he defended me from Mirabel and the rest of the pack.The nights when I stayed up late weeping and he was there–offering a kind word, a smile and a glass of milk that lulled me back to sleep.I pressed my eyes shut and winced from the ache in my heart."You're nothing but a two faced conniving bastard who took advantage of a young girl who had just lost her parents!”"Conserve your strength darling, you're headed to your new home.I had to personally escort you to make sure you didn't pull any more stunts.Thankfully, the dagger missed the vital organs.”It was then I became fully aware of my surroundings, aware of the stabbing pain that threatened to swallow me up again, to my hands and feet bound my stone cuffs that tightened wit