Chapter 54: Emperor Jai

I woke with a splitting headache and thoughts of Mia. My heart raced as my eyes flew open wide. I looked at the bed beside me but she was no longer there.

I fought to remember everything about the night. Had it really only been just a dream after all? It seemed so real. I could still feel her, smell her.

But she was nowhere in the room. The door opened suddenly as if I’d made a sound and I held my breath braced for the sight of her. Instead an elderly woman entered the room with a cup of steaming broth in her hand.

“You’re finally awake young master.” I moved to sit up but pain shot through my head and my thigh.

“No no, don’t move or you’ll open that wound.”

“Where is she?”

“Who?” The old woman looked back behind her as if expecting to see someone standing there.

‘The one who brought me here.” It was on the tip of my tongue to say Mia, but I didn’t.