’’Did you find anything about her?" Nathan paced in the empty hall, ’’You are of no use. Bastards!’’
A phone smashed on the floor, and the butler who was standing at a little distance, flinched, not daring to look up.
It was around 4 am in the morning. The guests had all left and the mansion was completely empty, except for the family mbers and servants who were awake.
’’Do you know sothing?" Nathan turned to Ryle who was idly sitting on the couch.
Just like the first night of his arrival, he had his legs crossed as he sipped on a cup of tea, nonchalant by the events transpiring around him.
’’I am talking to you.’’
’’What do you expect to know?" Ryle placed the cup down and looked at the man who was supposed to be his father. A major part of his life he had feared he would beco another Nathan Kingsley and to annihilate that fear, he kept trying to beco even worse so he could deal with this man, look him in the eye and stay unaffected.
For the first ti, Ryle felt that way as he looked at the man. Completely unaffected. He found the person rather pathetic and weak instead.
’’You are calm, Ryle. I know you don’t like Si Yena. Is this a trick of yours?" The more Nathan spoke, the further he seed to be getting worked up, ’’Do you want to harm her?"
’’I would do that in front of your eyes. Why the hassle?" Ryle took a sip of his coffee, and glanced at Daisy from the corner of his eyes.
She seed distracted as she looked down.
They had not been able to talk properly with all this fiasco and he wondered what had been occupying her mind. Did she miss ho? Or was it sothing else?
Back in that guest room, she had acted like she was simply upset because he was made to talk with won. But he doubted it now.
’’You... Alright... Alright...’’ Nathan raked his fingers inside his hair, his gaze cold and his eyes sunken as he turned to the butler, ’’Gather all the servants here and pick everyone she had any sort of interaction with.’’
Ryle’s eyes darkened.
In no ti, the butler smoothly arranged the servants in a queue.
So of the servants trembled as they hurriedly explained, shrugging off the possibility of any responsibility that might be imposed on them.
And as it turned out, Maria smiled at everyone but barely interacted with anyone unless necessary.
Except Daze, the maid she shared the room with.
With a scapegoat in sight, the servants took no ti in putting it all on Daisy.
Nathan’s eyes squinted. He rembered the first ti he saw Maria, this maid was also there, ’’When she made a mistake back then, you stood up for her,’’ He stalked towards her, his steps heavy, ’’Tell everything you know.’’
Daisy lowered her head, her shoulders trembling as she spoke in a ek voice, ’’I don’t know her at all. We encountered each other here for the first ti...’’
’’Lies. All lies!" Nathan pinched the spot between his brows, ’’He doesn’t know, they don’t know, you don’t know.... Do you take for a fool? n!’’
At his command, a group of n rushed inside the mansion from all sides, surrounding the servants who had broken into tears by now.
And three tall n stood around Daisy, caging her from all sides.
’’Imprison her in the basent and torture her till she vomits every bit of information she possesses about Maria.’’
The n rushed closer to Daisy.
Daisy’s eyes narrowed, her wrist that hung by her waist made a small movent.
At this ti, everyone heard a crisp shattering noise in the empty hall. The sound seed to reverberate, making the atmosphere eerie.
Daisy’s movents stopped.
Everyone turned to look into Ryle’s direction.
The coffee mug was absent from his hand and near Nathan’s feet led shattered shards of the cup, so of them were stained with drops of blood.
Nathan looked down, feeling the prickling pain in his ankles before he looked up at Ryle in disbelief, ’’What are you doing?" He had been distracted for one minute and this bastard had taken the opportunity to injure him, ’’Did you forget that I am your father?"
’’The father who wanted to use as a hostage in his mistress’s place?" Ryle looked up at the man, ’’I am better off without a father like that. Don’t you think so?"
’’You... I will deal with you later,’’ Nathan’s face seed to have been overco with a pallor. He looked like he could collapse any mont. The man turned to Daisy and snarled at the guards standing around her, ’’What are you waiting for? Drag her to the basent.’’
"You dare?" Ryle pushed himself to his feet, a hint of warning in his voice.
’’What are you doing?" Nathan turned.
’’Stay away from her,’’ Ryle did not look at Nathan even once as he approached Daisy, step by step.
Nathan’s eyes narrowed. At this mont, he would be a fool if he didn’t realize that sothing was amiss.
Nathan snarled at Ryle, ’’You, go to your room!" He even brought a woman here in disguise and to think that nobody noticed it till this mont.
Ryle did not respond to Nathan’s words but instead, he held Daisy’s hand and pulled her towards him.
’’Very well. You don’t fear anymore, do you?" Nathan nodded, ’’n! All of you, co in and skin these bastards alive.’’
A few seconds passed but no one entered the place. There was pin drop silence in the hall.
’’You seem surprised,’’ Ryle remarked calmly.
’’What did you do? No... Impossible! It cannot be you.’’
’’I assu that the annihilation of your bases these days was not enough of a lesson to you.’’
’’It was you...’’ Nathan staggered a few steps back, his eyes widening in disbelief.
The past few weeks, countless strongholds of the Kingsley family had been destroyed one by one. Nathan had dispatched a large team to track the culprit so they could get to the bottom of the matter but regardless of how many n he dispatched, all of them ca back with empty hands and no heartbeats.
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