Little Squirrel was really anxious to meet her friend. They sure did looked close. Should I ask her about Celine's past. I'll just pay her and she'll open her mouth. We both had a quarrel today. I was surprised that she could get that much angry, she's mostly calm and composed. Little Squirrel is surely scheming something, does she take me as a idiot. Should I blackmail her to spit out the truth. I setted up three guards around the house to hear their conversation but they said they couldn't hear anything in particular or maybe my Little Squirrel found out about them, she's more clever than a fox, hah that's what I like about her the most..... I went towards the house door and stood over their trying to eavesdrop. I wanted to check what's she scheming.
"Celine, do you want some tea".
"Yes please. Ohh you don't know how much I've missed your tea."
"And you don't know how much you made me worried. Disappearing with Lucas all of a sudden. Me and Arthur[1] had been searching for you for the past one month but there weren't any traces. I was so depressed, even the kids missed you. Now that I've seen your face I'm really glad that your safe. Where in the world did you and Lucas disappear to?".
"We were abducted".
"What!!?. How? When?!."
"That day when me and Lucas went outside to the market to buy the groceries. On our way back we faced a gang of abducters. I was too busy protecting Lucas and forgot to protect myself. They used opium to make us unconscious. Then when we woke up we were at a camp. There were many young girls and children there. It seemed that they were kidnapping them to sell them as servants."
"Those f**king bastards".
"I didn't really care about others, my eyes kept searching for Lucas. I spotted him in a small cage where the young kids were kept while the girls were only tied."
"Oh gosh, but your fine right. They didn't do anything to you right". Celine went quite not giving me an answer."Hey, di-..did they do something to you or Lucas".
"No nothing happened to Lucas. We escaped thankfully".
"And you!..... What did they to you."
My eyes got filled with tears and my heart begain to ache. I couldn't put my thoughts into words. It's just so hard to talk about.
"Th-they....tied me up in a tent an-and..he struck my whole body with a lash...hick,hick and - and used knives to burn my ski-nm. I..it hurted so much..... I...I couldn't even scream th..they covered m...my ...mouth." These words were just so heavy for me to spit out that ended up bursting into tears
"Oh my god, oh my god. Come here. Everythings fine now. Don't cry ok, don't cry". My poor girl, she endured this much. Those a**h*les I hope they rot in hell. If I find them somewhere I'll be sure to break their bones.
"It's okay. I'm okay Catherine". I said with a smile. Little did I not know that my dearest future husband was outside the door listening to our conversation.
"Are you sure?".
"Yeah yeah. Well that was that but we somehow escaped so Lucas wasn't beaten up I'm glad".
"Girl. You love your brother I understand it but you need to love yourself too. Care about yourself too".
"Yes yes". I went closed to Catherine's ear and whispered,"I think there's someone eavesdropping, shall we go upstairs?".
Catherine noded. Afterwards we went upstairs. I asked Catherine to get a pencil and notebook so that we can talk to each other without speaking. We chatted a bit and I told Catherine some important things. I gaved her the jewels that I was gifted by Allen. There were more than hundred and they worth alot. I asked her to buy things from it. Catherine listened to me and agreed to do everything I instructed to do. She went downstairs to get the tea while me on the other side dozed off. It was just so peaceful. I wish to return here again. My home, I just want to return here with Lucas.
After a while.....
Those MFs. I've known that Little Squirrel was tortured and there was assault attempt as well, but I didn't knew it was this brutal. How many innocent woman's and girls had to go through this. Cedric annihilated the group that abducted Celine and set free the other girls as well but there might be some of them alive who's doing this. Mainly, I need to find out their leader. I swear I'm gonna rip out his heart and feed his bones to the dogs.
After a while.....
Hmm Little Squirrel is taking too much. It's way past thirty minutes. I got up and went outside the carriage and knocked at the door.
Someone opened it up.
"Oh Your Highness please come in".
I entered her house. My eyes searching for Little Squirrel. I couldn't feel her presence, she wasn't there. I knew something was wrong. I turned around and shouted at her friend with anger.
"Where's Celine!!?. Did you help her run away. Lady answer me!!!".
"Your Highness please calm down. She hasn't gone anywhere".
"Then where is she!?".
"Well umm she's upstairs".
"Upstairs? What is she doing upstairs".
"We-well errr, why don't you go and see it yourself".
I nodded. She told me the way to the room. I knocked first, but there wasn't any reply. I knocked once more, complete silence. My impatientness took over and I pushed the door to see what she's so busy in. I entered the room and found her peacefully sleeping for a second I thought my eyes deceived me but it was real. I thought that she escaped. Hahh and look at my Little Squirrel she's actually busy dozing off. She was sleeping soundly and the moon started to come out. I need to wake her up as it's getting late. My hand naturally rose and brushed her hairs but my Little Squirrel has great reflexes. Her eyes suddenly opened wide and looked at me with disbelief and her little chubby cheeks started turning red.
"Allen, what are you trying to do".
I remained silent and looked at her with my red crimson eyes but she wasn't afraid. Her face didn't show any single sign of being scared though she looked at me as if I was out of my mind, well I guess I was. My hand kept brushing through her hair. Suddenly she grabbed my hand and got up. She was slowly turning into a tomato.
"A-allen Standford, I'm asking you what were you doing just now".
"Hmm, did I wake you up. I didn't know you were this much of a light sleeper".
"Well yea...- you did". Why was he just looking at me with those sad eyes. But that isn't the problem why the hell was he doing that to my hair. Is he out of his mind. He looks like a puppy that got soaked in rain. He's been really nice and kind to me this whole day and it's annoying, it's just not acceptable. Wait did he regret what he did to me. Well yeah keep regretting you jerk!.
"Well I did intend to wake you up".
"Yeah it's late we should return". He's talking to me with such a calm voice. Uhhhh I'm going crazy.
"Mhmmm". Your out of your mind Allen Standford, why the hell did you did that to her. Yeah, why did I do that? My hand just moved itself. Hehh I must be crazy.
He looks kind of down."Allen are you okay? Your acting weird".
"Am I ?."
"Yeah like your being kind to me".
"Really, I thought you wanted me to treat you kindly".
"Yeah I do want that. But it's seems like your disturbed. Did something happen?".
"No.... We should get going now".
"Okay".
Both of us went downstairs. I said my goodbye to Catherine, she told me not to worry about the things I asked her to do. Well I knew that I could trust Catherine. Then we headed towards and the carriage and went back to the Castle. But somethings disturbing me alot. Why the hell is he acting so weird and he's really quiet. He would've asked me what did we talk about but no he isn't, waitt was he the person who was eavesdropping. What the hell. That means that he heard my conversation with Catherine about the abduction, is that why he's acting weird. I should ask him about it.
"Allen?"
"Hmm Little Squirrel".
"We're you by any chance eavesdropping mine's and Catherine's conversation?".
"No I wasn't". As I said my Little Squirrel is really clever.
"Your lying aren't you".
"No I didn't eavesdrop".
"Are you a hundred percent sure".
"Yes". I said with a small smirk.
"It'll take sometime to reach the mansion, why don't you go to sleep".
"Whaa, there's no way I'm sleeping infront of you".
"I don't mind. You can sleep."
"And what if you were to peep at me while I was sleeping".
"I'm not some kind of a pervert".
"Hmmm fine, hand it over".
"What?".
"Your Cloak. I'm going to cover myself with it while sleeping." Allen didn't hesitate and handed it over to me without any questions. After that I covered myself with it, lay down and closed my eyes.
After a while....
It seems that Little Squirrel is in a deep sleep. Is she having a nightmare? Hmmm. I knelt down and brought my mouth closer to her ears and whispered.
"I'm still debating whether I should kill you or keep you alive and it's driving me insanely crazy"
[1] Catherine's husband