CHAPTER 101 – THE BEGINNING OF HIS END

JULIAN We rode back to the Inn with the old maid. Mark didn’t sleep the whole three days we were on the road. Didn’t eat and had been silent. I could only imagine what he was feeling at that time. Thinking of that man. His cruel words, his disgusting facial expressions as he looked at him as if he were nothing. His silence scared me more than anything. Because when Mark fell silent usually trouble followed. “You said you wanted to make him wish for death. Do you still mean that?” he didn’t even glance at me. “More than anything.” His jaw was locked tight I feared for his teeth. When we got to the Inn, we booked our rooms, took baths and ate. “Drink this.” I gave Mark a calming tonic so he could sleep. I was worried about what might happen if he continued that way. he didn’t say a word, he took the bowl and drank. “Go rest, we will talk in the evening.”I rested for two hours before my brother’s pacing woke me up. floors were made of wood and each step he took made a sound. I opened

CHAPTER 102 – SHE KNOWS

HELENA I was busy at the shop recording new stock that had just arrived. I was keeping myself busy so as to not miss my husband so much. It had been two weeks since he left the capital, but it felt like month. “Rose, please check those orders against what is in the ledger.” Silence. “Rose.” Silence. What was strange was, the shop that was noisy and filled with chatter had gone silence. Dread filled me as I slowly turned to look behind me. The scene got my breath caught and my eyes widening. Her cruel smile took me back to the days when I served her in the palace. consort Yan. She was standing behind a group of maids holding Rose down with her mouth covered.I was so distracted and busy by the orders that I didn’t even notice when the noise died down. “Well, well, well. If it isn’t Lady Helena.” The smile on her face widened. “Oh, I forgot, you are a princess now.” she covered her mouth and laughed. “Or maybe I should call you by your other name, the one I gave you. what was it again

CHAPTER 103 – TOO LATE

JULIAN’S GUARDS We had been standing in the pastry shop for almost twenty minutes when the old woman behind the counter finally looked at me. “Are you going to buy those or are you planning to stare at them all day?” I looked down at the tray in front of me. “I am deciding.” She scoffed with her hands on her waist. “You have been deciding since you walked in.”The other guard laughed beside me. “Just give him the once the princess likes, before he causes trouble.” I glared at him, but he only laughed harder. “Three of those,” I said pointing at the honey pastries. “And the almond ones.” He stopped laughing and looked at me seriously. “Does the princess like the almond ones too?”“She does,” I said confidently. “You are becoming quite knowledgeable about her preferences.” I shrugged. “We are supposed to protect her.” he raised an eyebrow. “Doesn’t explain why you know what pastries she likes.” I looked away. The truth was that we had all noticed how much the princess had been missing

CHAPTER 104 – SOMETHING’S WRONG

JULIAN The night hung low lighting the night sky. We were hidden in the tall lash grass waiting for the old maid to be our line of sight so we could take out the two guards, get the clothes to blend in and walk straight into Steve’s residence. Mark was awfully quiet but the way he was gripping that hunting knife told me he was anything but calm. The dead body laid in a sack next to him, one hand on the hunting knife and another on the sack. He was a man with a plan, and I could tell we would not leave that place without him getting what he wanted. I peaked again, careful not to be discovered by the guards. That was when I saw her.She had a walking stick and a limp in her walk. It was nighttime and I couldn’t see her face from where I was, but the disguise was what we agreed on. She was only a distraction; Mark and I would do the work. Indeed, when she was close enough, the guards noticed keeping their attention to her. Before I could react, Mark had already sliced the one’s throat

CHAPTER 105 – MAKE IT OR HE DIES

MARK My hands shook as I watched my brother going limp in my arms. Tears blurred my vision and my mind went blank. “Move, Your Highness.” I could hear the old maid talking but I couldn’t register what she was saying until she pushed me aside. “The arrow is poisoned. The more we delay, the more danger he will be in.” She knelt next to him, ripped his shirt open exposing the wound. Black blood was sipping out of the wound and the wound look as if it were festering already. “Do you have a knife?” I just stared at her, my mind back on the day I first killed someone. A young maid, four years older than me. We grew up together; she was working with Nanny Wang. We looked after each other growing up. I was ten and she was fourteen that year. It was a rainy night with thunder and lightning. A clamp of thunder woke me up and she was hovering over me. My mind was still foggy, lightening strike lit up her eyes, and I saw something in them I had never seen before. Cold and deadly. The lighteni

All Chapters of Surviving the World to Escape Him: Chapter 101 - Chapter 105

CHAPTER 101 – THE BEGINNING OF HIS END

CHAPTER 102 – SHE KNOWS

CHAPTER 103 – TOO LATE

CHAPTER 104 – SOMETHING’S WRONG

CHAPTER 105 – MAKE IT OR HE DIES