Questionable Queen by Nancy S. Brandt

Author:Nancy S. Brandt [Brandt, Nancy S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Reads

Chapter 19

Gideon left his parents' apartment. The rest of the family had gone to bed, but he couldn't sleep. Something felt off to him, and he'd learned to trust those feelings.

He hated not being able to explain what that something was to anyone else. Being the only Water Sensitive in the family, other than his father, he had learned early on if it came to his Abilities, he was better off dealing with them alone.

Even his own father didn't understand how Gideon felt the emotions associated with a place. When he was a child, both his parents assumed he was making up stories about the horror or anger or despair he'd feel when walking into a new room.

When a child is reprimanded or mocked enough for what other people see as attention-seeking behavior, that child learns to keep his feelings to himself.

That's why Gideon found himself sneaking through the silent hallways of the Sapphire Palace. His Sensitivity drove him to figure out why he felt as though his insides were upside down and all his organs were in the wrong places.

He'd felt this kind of thing before, and he knew the only way to fix it was to find out what was causing it in the first place. Fortunately, that meant finding the area where the emotional memory was the strongest, absorbing it, and understanding what had caused it.

The feelings grew stronger as he walked toward the King's office, the same one he'd gone to just over two weeks ago to receive the mission that brought Ursula here.

It shouldn't have surprised him that the unsettled emotions were connected to Uncle Killian's death, but these were not the normal feelings associated with sickness and death.

Gideon stopped walking outside the door to Killian's private apartment. A muddied swirl of feelings bled through the wooden door, and he raised his hand to touch the surface.

"What are you doing?"

Dashiell's voice startled him, and he spun around and stumbled, but he caught himself before he could give anyone another reason to laugh at him.

"What are you doing here?" Gideon kept his voice just above a whisper, even though he knew no one should be in these rooms now.

"I followed you." Dash clearly didn't see the need for caution as he spoke in a normal tone. The valet leaned against the wall. "I feared you might be sleepwalking and wanted to make sure you didn't hurt yourself."

"Like I've ever sleepwalked before." The Prince glared at his friend. "You just wanted to know what I was up to."

"Guilty, but seriously, I was worried about you."

"No need." Gideon took a step toward the King's office, but voices floated down the hallway, and he stopped.

"The Queen," Dashiell said. "What is she doing in this part of the palace at this time of night?"

"Well, this is where her husband died. She has every right."

"I know that." The valet rolled his eyes at Gideon. "I just meant, she's never been here. Why would she come in the middle of the night?"

That

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