The Phantom Prince ✔️

Chapter 19

As we all returned to the hospital room we found the children missing and a single sheet of paper lay on Arthur's bed with messy writing scrawled on it and drenched in tears.

I had a bad feeling about this as we tried to fight back the steadily increasing fear and reached out for it with shaking, trembling hands.

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If you are reading this then we are long gone by now. I heard you talking with the doctor and found out that you really didn't want us anymore.

I am sorry for being a bother and wasting your precious time. I will go far away so you won't have to see us ever again.

Please just don't look for us anymore.... You won't find us even if you do.

I know that you don't feel the same but I really liked you all and thought you were nice people. No one was ever this kind and nice to me without wanting anything in return.

I will take Jonas and Luna with me. They will be in a safe place where no one will ever hurt them again.

I will be the bestest big brother in the world and since luna doesn't have a family now... I will...
We will all be a family that will care for each other.

I know you just saved us because of your job but there was no need to act so kind to us.

I don't understand why you were so nice and it hurts a lot when I know that you didn't really care but had to act nice to us.

Please... If you hate us... Just say you hate us... That would hurt less than showing love till we realise that we were never really loved.

Goodbye and thank you for everything you have done for us.

Jonas.

P. S. We had already told Amy about everything that happened to us so you don't have to look for us to ask questions.

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And.... No matter how much we looked after that...how much we searched for the children... To explain just how wrong they were....

.....We couldn't find them anymore. They were truly gone. Disappearing in thin air.

They were not there when I had lost everything one day in a living nightmare.

The day I lost both my beloved wife Lavinia and my dearest daughter Amy.

The footprint near the window that I had ignored came back to haunt me...as I realised what it meant.

......My family was being watched all this time by a man seeking revenge for loosing his son, a criminal that was killed by me during a shootout.

If only I knew back then.....

When I came back home that day to my family...the only thing that came to greet me was an unearthly, eerie silence.

As I looked for them....there were no smiles or laughter... Nobody was there to hold me in a tight embrace and greet me... No daughter who ran towards me with toys wanting to play with her tea party set.....

All I found were two corpses together with the older one holding the younger one in a protective embrace with dried up tears on her cold, pale
face and the younger one with eyes wide in horror and fear staring at me unblinking and still.