Chapter 106

"Young Master! Come on out!"

Having called toward the garden several times already, I finally stopped.

"Huh. That's strange."

Melody had clearly said Jayden was somewhere in this garden.

Yet the garden felt utterly silent, as if there was truly no one else here besides the three of us.

"Melody, didn't you say the Young Master was over the—"

"Uu!"

Wondering if he'd slipped off somewhere else in the meantime, I asked Melody, but the child pointed toward that same patch of bushes once more.

It was a gesture full of conviction.

There was no way he couldn't hear my voice from that distance. So why wasn't he coming out?

As I tilted my head, puzzled, Cain added quietly beside me.

"He does seem to be over there."

He said it with certainty, as if his sharp Dragonblood senses had already pinpointed Jayden's exact location.

That only left me more…