Lycan King's Regret: Punished The Wrong Daughter novel Chapter 109

Chapter 109: 109- Investigation

Arabella Toussaint:

I held my breath and watched Lucien, standing in the doorway for a moment, looking at my sleeping body with a slight frown as if he was trying to make sense of something. Eventually, he shook his head, stepped back, and quietly closed the door.

I stayed where I was as he walked away. Now what?

Once he disappeared down the hallway, I turned toward my room and reached for the doorknob. My fingers closed around nothing. I frowned and tried again, this time watching my hand carefully. My fingers went straight through the knob as if there was nothing there except air.

What the hell?

I had touched the curtain in Queen Theodora’s room, so why couldn’t I touch this? I placed my palm against the door, but couldn’t feel the hard surface beneath my hand. It simply disappeared through the wood.

No way.

I hesitated for a second before stepping forward, expecting my face to hit the door. Instead, there was no resistance at all. I walked straight through it and got into my room.

This was too much for my brain to handle. I looked at myself sleeping on the bed and then down at the body I was somehow standing in. Before I could make sense of either, dizziness hit me. My vision blurred, my eyes rolled back, and the last thing I heard was a dull thud before everything went black.

I think I fainted.

***

My phone was ringing somewhere close to my head.

I groaned and blindly moved my hand over the bed until my fingers found it. My eyelids felt too heavy to open. I squinted at the bright screen and managed to make out Maya’s name.

Urgh. Why was she calling me this early?

I accepted the call and pressed the phone against my ear without bothering to lift my head from the pillow.

"Arabella? Hey, is that you?" Maya’s voice came through immediately. "I was waiting for your call. You said you’d call me today. Is everything okay?"

"Maya... I’m too tired... can’t open my eyes ..." My voice was muffled against the pillow. I was too sleepy to answer her.

"Ara?" Her voice grew more concerned. "Are you still sleeping? You never slept this late. You sound half dead, girl!"

This time, I didn’t answer. My brain was taking its sweet time waking up, and Maya continued asking questions while I lay there with my eyes barely open.

And then my eyes flew open, and I shot upright, immediately looking toward the spot beside the door where I remembered collapsing last night.

Maya was still talking loudly through the phone, asking me if I was all right. I closed my eyes for a second and brought the phone back to my ear. "Hey, Maya, can we talk later?"

"Just tell me you’re okay, Arabella. You’re freaking me out."

"I’m fine, Maya." I rubbed my eyes and tried to gather my thoughts. "What time is it, by the way?"

"What time is it?" she repeated in disbelief. "Are you serious? It’s two in the afternoon!"

That got my attention immediately, making me wide awake. "W... what?" Maya kept talking, but I pulled the phone away from my ear and checked the time on the phone screen.

2:07 p.m.

She was right. I had slept until two in the afternoon.

I was usually up early, no matter how tired I was. I threw the covers aside and got out of bed while Maya’s voice continued coming from the phone.

Be at the Warrior’s Café for lunch. I know you probably missed your breakfast.

Bradley.

Yes, Bradley. I slept well, except I had an out-of-body experience last night.

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