Chapter 15 of chapter 2 Shivering
Duke Pov.......
Those fools have the guts to kill a maid in my mansion! I promise theirs death would be painful and horrible than what they did to the maid... She's not just a maid but a friend to Isabella! If she heard about the death of her friend, she would be devastated!
Just that moment, a maid stood in my way with her head down to the floor.
"Milord...." She was shivering and sweating profusely. " What! " I asked aggressively. I wouldn't in the mood to do any charity, wait! I haven't show anyone charity before..
"Lady... Pearl... Want to see you in the library hall. She said she had an important word to confess" she stammer. Library Hall? What did Lady Pearl wants to discuss about? I was curious, she had hardly talked to me this pass few days. Why from all days it happens to be today! When, I am planning to see the beautiful face of my woman. I had wrong her a lot, attend to amend my ways and makes it up to her for all the pains I have cause her.
"Where is she?!" My thunderous voice asked.
" She ...is waiting for you in the library hall"
" Hmm" I strode my way to the library hall. There are some guards guiding the entrance. Them bowed immediately their eyes fall on me. I didn't paid time to their loyalty greetings and stroll in.
She was standing delicate facing the huge window which curtains tied at both sides.
"Lady Pearl?"
She shuddered, quivering and turned. Her eyes were red and swollen. Have she been crying but why? I was stunned and speechless! What have happened that makes her cried. I hardly seen her cry except she's in pains..
Before I could speak, she call weakly.
"Arthur" she hardly called me by my name but now she did? Something is up...
She strode towards me in a staggered state.
"Arthur" she call again but getting close to me, fall on me. I hold on my ground before I fell down with her.
"What happens?" I whispered.
"I'm... sorry, please forgive me!" She cried. What is she sorry for, she didn't do anything wrong. Then, why is she apologizing?
"I..am a traitor and choose to died!"
Her soaring behavior was getting impatient. I hate when people kept me in the hook unexpected. If she had anything she wants to talk about, she should better do it now..
"Lady Pearl, I hate been keeping wait. What do you have to tell me that make you cry!"
" Milord, I didn't mean to do it. I had no choice" she looked into my eyes, press my cheeks together with her both hands.
"He makes me do it, he told me to choose between you and your father. Since your father refused to turn him into a night creatures. He threaten to take my life if I refuse. Please don't hate me, I just did what's right to do" she cried, stumbling in my hands. My face turn darkened, I could feel the rages and fury of darkness clouding inside of me.
Just the mention of that monster makes me angry! I know where she was heading but choose to ignored and get it from her instead.
"Who's he?" I asked quietly..
"It him, Sir... Oscar"
That bastard!
"He told me to choose between you two and gave me the poisonous herb that can burn down of a night creature. He knows your father turn you and refused to turn. He was rage and threaten to kill me, I was scared and frighten, didn't know what else to do but make the deal with him. I have to choose your father. Thinking after his death all will be settled but I was wrong. Please... Forgive me!"
She cried hopelessly on my hands. I wasn't shock or surprise. The day she did it, I was there watching her, I should have stop her for applying the herbs on my father food... But
No! I didn't stop her or even planned to. For the beast he had made he becomes wasn't what I was planning for myself. It wasn't my plan or decision to be this way.
He made me this way, the beast I have forever become!
She was wailing on my hands like a shrivering rabbit pleading it hurter not to shoot... I know everything that happened that day. I have never loved that man for change my life and destiny.
I tapped on her back, calming down her nerves and fear. If I want to punished her for killing my ungrateful father, I would have done it years ago. She isn't the one I'm after, she isn't my enemy but that Sir Oscar!
That ungrateful man!
"I seen everything, you don't have to explain yourself"
" Milord....?" She raised her face at him in astonishment. " You .... know?"
"Hmm" I nodded, glancing on her pale face with swollen eyes. How long have she been crying reflecting on her guilt.
"I saw you that day lady Pearl. It already in the past" coldly I said even though I remember that day painfully. That was also the same day my mother was killed right in front of me...
"If you know, why did you kill me?"
I glared down to the woman who only reach me on the chest.. She had played the role of motherhood to me after the death of my mother. I don't know why I felt soft part for her but I just can't put back all she had done for me just because she was responsible for that bastard death..
"Let say, killing you would be a time of waste" I said , sarcastically...
" What?"
I laughed, "Come on lady Pearl, I wouldn't do that. You're still precious to me" amusingly
" I... I.. milord, you forgive me?"
She looked at me surprisingly, was she expecting me not to forgive her? I looked at her and saw a look of satisfaction in her eyes but then, she frowned, loosen herself from the hands, step a bit far from me,
"Lady Pearl?"
Her eyes seen to start tearing up a fresh tears. What's troubling her? I haven't seen her in such a devastated state before....
"Lady Pearl!" I get impatient...
She stumbled in fear.. "I ...I.. saw..."
She was fighting with her word while her shrivers, trying to describe something. Who have the guts to trouble the woman that watch over me!
I walked closer to her, grabbed her against myself in a tight embrace. "Sh sh sh, it's okay. I promise anything would happen to you" I assured her, things I haven't done to her before, but I was caring for her. She's my court mother afterwards.
She clam down and her body stop shivering.
"I... Saw Scott" she said..
"Scott!"