Chapter 142: Pretence

HUNTER.

“Search the premises, she couldn’t have gotten very far, she’s wounded.” I growl.

“Yes sir.” The guards reply and start to run in different directions like seeds out of a leaking bag while I stomp back to her room.

I don’t know what's running through Tara's mind but she better have an explanation prepared for when she gets caught. I didn’t expect her to give me a grand show of appreciation or pledge her eternal loyalty to me but leaving without saying goodbye, that’s a little suspicious and completely unacceptable.

I comb through the room with anger as I wait for the guards to bring her to me. It still has her scent, it’s a little faint but the room still smells like Tara.

She smelled like sweet spices and even though she was covered in dirt, her skin practically glowed in the daylight.

I’m glad the first place that my legs led me to go as soon as I woke up was this place. If not she could have gotten away, the guards wouldn’t think it was suspicious if she just got up and