Nicolai had never been one to freak out. He had, in fact, hardly ever freaked out unless his mother was missing from her bed in the middle of the night.
Though she had stopped doing it ever since she understood what it did to him.
From then on, Nicolai stopped having sudden bursts of panic. So imagine his surprise when he woke up and found the side of the bed where Ariana slept cold and empty.
At first, he thought that the woman might have left him and gone back home, but Nicolai shook his head and rejected that notion. Ariana might be many things but she was not a deserter; if she was going to leave, she would have told him that she was leaving.
He slipped down the bed and wore the bedroom slippers before walking to the bathing room. He stopped in front of the door and knocked on it. "Pallas, are you in there?"
There was no response from inside, which meant that she wasn't here.
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