Chapter 50: What is going on?

~Kira~

All through the day to the next, I didn’t set my eyes on Xavier. I went out of my way to look for him in all the corners that he usually is, but it was as if he had been blown off the face of the earth and the Packhouse.

When I asked his beta, all he told me was to give him time, and that he wouldn’t be found if he didn’t want to be found. All the other people that I ever also asked said that they hadn’t seen him since the day before. I went to bed with tears in my eyes, crying until I finally felt the hands of sleep slowly drawing me away from my consciousness.

But this morning, one of the servants that I’d continuously asked about the whereabouts of Xavier came to me when I was talking to myself in the garden. That had been a way for me to cope. I hadn’t turned to Jay because I didn’t want Xavier to misunderstand anything about us in case he saw us together again. He tried so many times to stay with me but I told him not to worry about me and go about his daily business.

Now