Chapter 44:Missing girl- Part 2
Ignoring Barron, Lucas asked, "Did you need sothing, Miss Belle?"
"Lucas...I need to tell you sothing," said Belle and he gave her a nod for her to go on.
But Barron didn't shut up, "Do you think she would catch the infection if she touched right now? For a young mistress of the house, she appears to be very close to you. Oh, wait! I know that look on her face!"
"Earlier in the kitchen you called Belle," said the girl.
He did rember that. Lucas rembered the choice of words and it was used in a strict tone for her to listen "Isn't that what everyone calls you?" The girl had the habit to rebel and not listen, doing things on her own accord.
Lucas could see a sense of disappointnt that ca and went away with the blink of her eyes.
"No, not that," she corrected to shake her head, "I.."
"Why does it look like she wants to confess sothing. Pink cheeks, starry eyes. My my, you know what they tell about that look," Barron sang in a very annoying voice and Lucas felt an invisible nerve pop in his forehead.
"I- Did you hear sothing?" Belle had a frown on her forehead as she asked Lucas. Her eyes darted behind his room but Lucas stood at the front that didn't allow her to see everything that was in there.
Barron suddenly turned quiet and Lucas' eyes subtly rose up, "Hear?" he gave her a questioning look.
Belle's lips pursed, "I thought I heard soone talking right now," though she was a creature of the living, for a mont Belle had picked on Barron's voice that faded back again.
"SHE CAN HEAR !" Barron scread loudly but this ti Belle heard nothing.
"It must be the wind, Miss Belle. I have the window open," he gave her a smile to throw her off from what she might have heard.
"HE LIES! HEAR !" and Belle heard nothing.
Belle had heard very faint whispering that ca from behind Lucas that ca and went like the words had been tuned in one second and the next second it had been tuned out. She noticed that the window was indeed open and her gaze shifted back to look at him to nod.
"You wanted to tell sothing?" He reminded her of what she had co here for.
Belle nodded and then said, "Once you start working in the other mansion, will you co to visit us? Here. Once in a while," she added the words.
"I don't know why anyone would be even interested in wanting to et you," Barron muttered under his breath grumpily as the excitent of soone noticing him apart from this butler had co down.
He bowed at her as if to tell a yes, "Have a goodnight, Lucas."
"Goodnight, Miss Belle," he returned back the greeting and Belle finally turned around to go back to her own room. When the door clicked close, Lucas went back to sorting his clothes as if nothing happened.
And after a while, Barron asked, "Where are you going?" he had no one to speak to or have anything to do, therefore he decided to talk with the butler who continued to ignore him for the next few minutes.
When the next morning arrived, the day started like any other where the servants of the mansion were the first ones to wake up to start their routine work. The day went by and towns away, in the house of the Stlinkson's, Mr. and Mrs. Stlinkson's sat worried in the hall as their daughter had not returned back after she had gone to a soiree.
Mrs. Stlinkson looked at the magistrate, "I told you she hasn't returned back to the mansion since last evening."
"Did you check with her friends or other acquaintances who might know? Perhaps the last person who saw her?" inquired the magistrate. It wasn't his job to have checks like these but the Stlinkson's family had sought out for him just when he had reached the office to be brought to their mansion. The pureblooded vampires were mostly demanding and they called the officials for silly reasons. One would lose their necklace or one would have lost their cat for it to co after a week.
"The last person was our coachman who is right here," said Mrs. Stlinkson's, showing her hand towards the man who stood near the wall with both his hands together, "Where did you drop Olivia? Tell the magistrate!" she asked angrily as he had co back to the mansion without the girl.
The coachman appeared to tremble under the gaze of Mrs. Stlinkson's and it was the magistrate who gave a look at the vampiress before asking the servant, "Tell us what happened last night?"
"We w-were returning back from the soiree and on our way, the carriage broke down. Lady Olivia asked to fix it and she took a walk," answered the coachman.
"Where did she take a walk to?" questioned the magistrate.
"It was towards the mansion, Sir. It took so ti to fix but I did. When I started the carriage, I couldn't find the lady anywhere on the road and I believed she probably took a ride to get back to the mansion."
The magistrate wondered if the Stlinksons' daughter had run away from the house but it didn't seem to be the case, "She didn't co ho though."
"No, Sir. That is what I found out."
"Has there been any ti or case that your daughter left ho to co late?" the man asked to see the woman glared at him.
"How many tis do you want to tell you that she has never done anything like this before. Olivia is a good daughter who has always returned back ho," said Mrs. Stlinkson's, which was true because they had spoiled the girl giving her any and everything, "Sothing bad must have happened to her!"
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