****Miami jerked her head back. “Mia, you are sounding ****. It is not the end of the world for Mrs
Jenna. Your family is never discussed-
“Oh, ****up! Don’t give me that ***!” Mia snapped “You are just as bad as they all are saying that she collected her satchel and strode out of the cafeteria leaving her food untouched. Her friends watched her leave with shock apparent on their faces. They didn’t have the guts to say anything against her.
Mia went to the castle and instead of going to her room, she went to meet River River had just finished with her classes. “Mia?” she said, getting up from the chair “You have come so early from school. Are you wel?”
Mia’s face was flushed and she looked like a train had run over her “Where is Faria? I am getting worried about her, River”
River stared at her blankly at first and then panic flashed on her face too 7 don’t know. She hasn’t come to meet me since morning.”
Mia grabbed her hand and said. “We have to find where Faria is. I am not feeling good about this.”
“What do you mean?” River rasped, her shoulders going taut with tension. Hunter was expected to come back by the next morning.
“River, can you listen to me for once in your life!” Mia shouted 1 want to know where Faria is!” She was now shaking with panic and anger. “We need to find her!”
“Okay “River said, unsure of why Mia was behaving so strangely. “Let’s go to her room first.”
They rushed to Faria’s room which was locked. When they asked other servants about her, they informed that Faria hadn’t come back to her room after 6PM. And that was the time when she was with River and Mia
“That means that after giving dinner to me, instead of returning to her room, Faria went somewhere else without telling anyone,” Mia said, her eyes prickling with tears
“Why are you crying?” River said as she held Mia’s hand. “She must have gone to clean up the south wing of the castle. She has been telling me about it for days”
“Then find out about her now!” Mia urged. 7 have this bad feeling that Faria went to investigate on her own at Howard’s house.” She put her hand in her skirt’s pocket and touched the crumpled paper. She couldn’t tell River about it because River was pregnant and already dealing with so much in her life
“Mia, you are scaring the ******out of me!” River said as she hurried to her room. When she reached the main hall, she asked every servant to leave their duty and find Fania.
For the next two hours, they searched for Faria in and around the castle, but she wasn’t found. Both River and Mia were too disturbed at the end of it. Let’s call Elijah and Asher,” River suggested.
Mia snapped “What good are they going to be?”
“But Faria is missing! We have to report it to them. They will help us find her.”
“No,” Mia said with pleading eyes. “Wait till the night. If Faria isn’t found or doesn’t come, we will tell Asher and Elijah!”
“Why?” River whined.
“Because-“Mia turned her head away. The threat she received on the paper in the morning was on her lips. Should she tell her? She decided against it. “Just trust me on this River. Please.” Mia pulled her hand away from her and ran back to her room.
It was 10:30 PM when Mia got out of the castle, wearing a black hoodie and black track pants. She went to Howard’s house.
She knew that if she exited the castle from the main gate, the guards would notice and they wouldn’t allow her to go out unless escorted. Ever since Mia was just a toddler, Hunter had made it a rule that she couldn’t go out of the castle unless accompanied by the guards or nannies or…. more guards After his marriage, River had also come in the circle of this rule.
Mia couldn’t take River because she didn’t want to put her under duress. She was already under a lot and was braving through her morning sickness At the same time, she wanted to go to Howard’s house and see if Faria had gone there. Mia felt guilty of planning it out with Faria to go and check out Natalie’s room for clues.
In order to go unnoticed, Mia went to the rear of the castle where the serv*nt quarters were. It was midnight and most of them were already sleeping A few were awake but they were either drunk or having fun in their own way. The thing she liked about Hunter was that he wasn’t strict with the serv*nts in their own version of fun. The serv*nts were omegas who had weak lycan beasts or none at all.
Mia darted to the rear gate. Since no one ever used it, brambles and vines grew all around, covering the iron bars. Mia climbed over the tall gate and then jumped to the other side. There were dense woods on the other side, but Mia knew this place very well. She hurried inside the woods. She stayed close to the boundary wall of the castle and made her way to the front. Soon she hit the road to the West Hill where Howard’s house was
West Hill was a… hill. It was a beautifully developed mound whose builder was none other than her brother. The houses were lined up in a spiral around the hill. At night lights from the houses and street lamps looked like stars dotting the ground. It was simply breathtaking.
Mia made her way to Howard’s house that was somewhere in the middle. As she began to walk on the streets, a thunder sounded in the distance. This was going to be bad if she didn’t hurry up. In order to make herself less noticeable, she had put the hoodie on her head. In order to suppress her smell, she had applied lavender oil on her body.
The streets were empty and she was thankful for that. Occasionally she would hear a rustle of leaves or a hoot of a night owl. Rodents.
Louder thunder sounded in the skies and she smelled a hint of rain in the air. “***!” she rasped. She had to hurry up or she would be soaked wet in the rain. While it was okay to return back to the castle soaked in rain, she couldn’t take the same chance in Howard’s house. She didn’t want to leave a trail of her presence. So she started running. By the time she reached his house, her chest was heaving more out of nervousness than out of breath.
Howard’s house was shrouded in darkness. She couldn’t get through the front door, so she circled the perimeter of the house. The wooden fence around it was painted ***and there was a thin line of wire intertwined in it which meant that Howard had a security system to discourage intruders.
Mia jumped over the fence, lightly landing on the other side on the soft ground. She stayed frozen, crouched on the ground for a **. There was no movement in the house. She got up a few ***later and slowly padded her way towards the house. Natalie’s room was on the first floor. She rounded the corner and came to stand right below her room’s balcony
Thunder sounded again. Winds picked up and blew around the trees with a powerful passion. The trees swayed and creaked in its wake. Strands of her hair escaped her pony and flew around her face chaotically. Lightning cr*ckled and forked in the sky, threatening to hit the ground. She had to get inside as soon as possible.
Mia tipped her head up to see the balcony that had burst into thousands of roses, she wondered that if Faria had come here, then could she not make it back? It wasn’t so hard to go back. Or was it that she was in the house, murdered? Was it possible that Howard was hiding something? So many questions bounced in her head. She thought of backing out for a second, but then her efforts to find Faria would be futile. She had tried to find her throughout the day, but she couldn’t. Surely, Faria was in there, murdered or kept hostage.
Mia looked around the wall to find a way to climb it. Her eyes landed on a pipe. Quickly, she climbed up and jumped onto the balcony over the rose pots. “Ugh!” she muttered when her pants got caught in the thorns. She untangled it not before getting it torn. As soon as she was free of the thorns, she took a deep shaky breath. She had never ever done this kind of thing in her life. What if Howard got up and caught her? If he handed her to Hunter, Hunter would go wild.
She shoved those thoughts down. She had to find Faria, her nanny. Faria was with her ever since she was an infant. She loved that woman and even to think that Faria was in trouble made her very restless.
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