The Ultimate Husband (Darryl and Lily Lyndon) novel Chapter 5073

Forsythe called out in response before asking for a few details and hurrying out of the palace.

Right after he left, Morticia collapsed onto the ground like a deflated balloon, both from worry and fatigue.

She had been putting up a front toward Forsythe the entire time. Now that no one else was around, she could pretend no longer. Despite being a Fiend Empress, she was but a woman at the end of the day. Maternal instincts were unshakeable, and there was no way she could calm down with her child in trouble.

'Please don't let anything have happened to you, my child.'

'Nothing at all, I beg.'

As she sat on the floor, Morticia closed her eyes and began to pray.

…

Forsythe left the palace and began to head toward the stone house.

This was because Morticia had instructed Forsythe to go alone so that news would not go out.

He had thought it through. He was going to bring Heather to the exchange by himself. As long as he got the child back, he would not mind if he turned to dust.

Despite once being a good-for-nothing pirate leader, Forsythe was a man of honor. He knew that he would be nowhere without Morticia and was nothing but grateful for that. It was now time to repay her.

Just then, in one of the rooms in the stone house.

Heather's limbs had been completely chained as she sat in the corner of the room, staring out into the night sky with a dazed expression.

It had been five days.

She had been seized for five days, in which Heather had had her internal energy blocked from drinking spiked liquor. Under the imprisonment of the Dragon King Palace, there was no way for her to escape at all.

Upon being apprehended and brought to the Dragon King Palace, Forsythe had come to see her once in an attempt to convince her to join the Bloody Fiend race as well as offer her phenomenal benefits. Yet Heather had turned him down almost immediately.

On top of that, she had also begun to fast herself in an act of rebellion.

This had gone on for two days.

Heather would not even glance at the food the Dragon King Palace brought in, choosing to stare out of the window instead.

She missed her family; she missed Ambrose.

And yet…