A Cold Homecoming

LUCIUS POV

The palace gates opened.

"Where the fuck is everyone?" Gideon muttered behind me. "You've been missing for hours. This should be chaos."

He was right.

There should have been search parties. Advisors scrambling. My mother screaming orders.

"Good question."

Gideon moved closer. "There should be hundreds of guards searching for you. The whole pack should be mobilized."

"But they're not," I