Heidi and the Lord Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Familiar stranger- Part 3

After dinner was served the sa night, Heidi was cleaning the used utensils as she heard her father and Daniel speak about witches who were spotted at the periter of Woville and Valeria. As if the friction between the humans and the vampires weren’t enough, there were the witches too who were responsible for the missing people in the Empire.

“Oh father please, it won’t be late. Daniel promised to pick us up once it finishes,” she saw Nora plead to her father when she was done with the kitchen work and about to go to her room. She wondered what Nora was asking for this ti.

“I don’t think so, young lady. The one you are talking about is of long distance and when did you say it is?” their father, Sion Curtis questioned her.

“Two weeks from now,” her sister replied quickly.

“I don’t think I will be present in the town that day, Nora. I wouldn’t consider it safe and I know how irresponsible you can get at tis. So no.”

“I will have Heidi accompany . She’s responsible! Please father!” Nora began to wail like a child. Nora wasn’t exactly happy of Heidi tagging with her but if it ant her father would allow her to go to the theater then she could handle it but ignoring her for the night, “Please please!” Her sister’s words made Heidi smile internally, at least she had accepted that she was irresponsible.

Sion looked at Heidi through his rimd glasses with a serious expression and then at his daughter.

“Alright but I want you girls straight ho from the theater,” he said before going back to reading the newsletter.

“Thank you, father!”

Theater? She had heard of theaters being opened in the vampire lands, to showcase the art through music and dance and drama. Like her sister, she had been keen to see the theater too since the word had spread about it.

Finally, the day ca for Nora, her friend Clarence and Heidi to visit the theater. It was evening when they reached the destination and nothing could stop their bubbling excitent once they stepped out of the carriage. The three won were dressed as a good as any other won around the theater to look like they were bred from high-class families. Heidi wore the dark grey dress Nora had given her, her black hair tied at the side and let loose in the ends.

The theater was located at the edge of the Bonelake empire, the building as huge as a castle in the middle of a town. As they got inside Heidi was srized by the structure and space of it. Her brown eyes took in everything that ca into view. The large pillars, the curtains that hung from the high ceilings, the people there. Their father had got them a box seating from where they could see the stage clearly. n and won had already begun taking their seats, and the entire theater went quiet went the theatrics began.

She held her breath, her eyes not once moving away from the stage but having them transfixed as the story rolled. For Heidi, it was a once in a lifeti opportunity to witness sothing so beautiful. Nora and her friend Clarence had only seen the beginning of it before their eyes wandered to the good-looking man sitting in the next box.

When the show ended, her sister and her acquaintance left her alone in the box asking her to et them in front of the theater. Not knowing what to do, she made her way down the ground through the large stairs and got outside the theater, waiting for her sister.

While waiting she heard soone speak to her.

“I didn’t expect to see you here.”

Turning to her left she saw it was a man but it took her a while to recognize it was the naless vampire who was dressed in an expensive looking suite.

“Neither did I,” she replied with a small smile.

“Seems like you have enjoyed the show very much. Is this your first ti?” She nodded her head to his question. His hair was styled back neatly and he looked no less than an elite mber of the vampire class. Now that she noticed he was a very handso man, his chiseled features with high cheekbones, straight nose, and dark brows.

“I take it you have been to theater’s many tis,” she stated looking at his red eyes that looked no less than looking at an endless tunnel where soone could get lost.

“Not many but enough to be bored,” he replied before his eyes moved across the crowd and settled back at her as she pulled the shawl around her.

“Did your wound heal?”

“It has. Thank you for asking. I see that yours has healed as well.”

“Mine?” She asked him perplexed.

“The last ti I saw you, you hurt your forehead.”

“Oh, that one. I forgot about that,” she laughed softly.

“You should be careful when you walk...you don’t know which man might shovel you again.”

Had he witnessed the whole scene that day? She felt embarrassed thinking about it.

“You know, Ms. Curtis,” he then began this ti his voice drawling, “If you hold that shawl of yours any tighter like a storm is going to co people will find you suspicious,” he said making her eyes snap at him instantly.

Dread began to slowly fill her mind at his words.

Did he know? No that couldn’t be possible, she thought to herself. She had made sure to cover her upper body with the shawl. To divert her mind she looked around searching for her sister Nora, and upon seeing her she murmured a quick goodnight to the man and left the spot without turning back to look at him.

The man stood there looking at Heidi’s retreating figure along with her sister and another woman. At the sa ti, his coachman arrived.

“Lord Nicholas, the carriage is ready.”