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from his chest and it didn’t take me a second look to be worried. I felt the pain he ceased from showing and took cautious steps towards him. “Zayden?”
    His eyes darted towards us and blackened with the deepness of his displeased voice. “How dare you address your King with such disrespect?!” Hearts began to fluster, feeling the floor beneath our feet rumble with his words and everyone’s instant reaction was to bow.
    “I’m sorry.” I said with my head down. “Please forgive us. We’re just—”
    “Trying my patience yet again! You are dismissed from my presence until you have learned where to focus your loyalties!”
    I lifted my head and looked at the others around me. They were all worried. Darius and Troy tried to get me to continue but I knew it wasn’t a good idea. Something was indeed wrong with Zayden and in order for us to figure out what, we had to do it privately away from him.
    “As you wish.” I signaled for everyone to follow me after another bow and we walked through the Great Hall to take the back stairs. “Something’s wrong.”
    “You think?” Darius grumbled. “He’s completely not himself.”
    “Not another word.” I snatched. “Boys, why don’t you go out the back and get your stuff from the stables.”
    “We can’t be in on this?” Seth asked.
    “Just do it and don’t come back through the main doors. I don’t want you going near your father until we can find a way to get through to him. He’s taking this loss the complete wrong way.”
    “You mean by not feeling anything at all.” Seth muttered. “Surprise.”
    “Seth, stay away from him. We’ll be the ones to fix this.”
    Seth sighed and turned away to do what he was told.
    “We’ll try to at least.” Troy said.
    My eyes rolled and I gently pushed him towards the stairs. “Come on.”
    We went up them and I slowly stepped inside the familiar corner room.
    “It’s okay.” Darius smiled, opening the door a little more. “It is your room.”
    “I know. It’s just been awhile.”
    They let me have a moment to take in the fact that I was back and staying for an unseen amount of time.
    “So, we’re here.” Ruby said. “And Zayden has lost it. What are we going to do?”
    I let out a long breath like I’ve already been thinking and turned to them. “He needs to find it, whatever it is. I know it’s not a good time. We haven’t had enough time to deal with this devastating loss ourselves but I don’t think Zayden has at all. It’s like he’s not accepting it.”
    “Or accepting it too well.” Jaylyn replied. “He seemed too comfortable in that crown than the Zayden I know.”
    “Okay. Come on. Don’t leave this all on me. I could use everyone’s heads here. How are we going to help him before he pushes all of us away?”
    The room was quiet while everyone tried coming up with some kind of solution but it seemed no one had one.
    This quick rush of a sound outside the door caught my attention. “What was that?”
    “It was Seth.” Jaylyn said.
    I gasped and headed for the door. “Oh, no! He’s going to Zayden! Seth! Get back here!”
    We all rushed out of the room but we could never be as fast as him. I reached the balcony railing and Seth was already in the main hall. His eyes were on his father unafraid and he walked to him, sure and confident.
    His steps lifted Zayden’s eyes to him and he became enraged by the style he chose to approach with and it brought him to his feet. “What are you—”
    Zayden raise his hand and I screamed. “No!”
    I wasn’t quick enough but neither was Zayden. Seth rushed towards him, his arms open and flung around Zayden’s body, halting his very words.
    Seth said nothing. All he did was hold his embrace around his father and released the emotions he has yet to show himself. His tears ran down his face and Zayden took immediate reaction. He finally took a breath loud enough for anyone to hear and gripped his arms around his son’s shoulders, only