Chapter 54 - Innocent Maiden v.2 (1/2)
”Shall we go?”
”No,” the Principal had heard some amusing news. Well, he didn't hear them, bthey were going all around the Academy's forum.
Headings like, 'Missing Royal Guests, will we ever see them again?' or 'New rising power, Anne takes down the Lith Royals,' or 'Henry has a purple bruise in his neck, did anyone notice?' or 'Fire on the Kitchen, don't go any near, Moria had pushed down James again.'
He was about to click on Henry's news as he wanted to see if it was real or not when he received a message.
Husband_before_King: We are kidnapped.
DaisyFlower_lover: I know.
Husband_before_King: Are you going to save us?
DaisyFlower_lover: Do you want me to save you?
Husband_before_King: Only one of us.
DaisyFlower_lover: Who?
Husband_before_King: You know who.
DaisyFlower_lover: Did the idiot Druon sneaked inside the bubble?
Husband_before_King: Yes… take him out.
DaisyFlower_lover: …
The TFQ club had kidnapped the guests. Not only the ones that had taken the first cars of the tour but the next ones and the next ones too. Then the bunch of masked criminals led the hostages to a big hall and made them wait for a while. An evil wait, as Anne liked to say it.
However, the photos and pictures from inside the big hall were of beautifully dressed people sharing smiles and handshakes while sipping some wine and eating some desserts. They didn't seem like the scared kind of people, not at all, but they seemed to be enjoying a magnificent evening within friends.
Principal Adam looked again at the pictures and felt a bit of jealousy, he wanted to go there too. There was no need as the one who should be concerned was the man managing the club.
”Let Assistant Vincent solve it.”
”That…” the secretary in the front looked a bit pale and was biting her lips when she passed a note to the calm man reading the news and typing on the golden 'MINI' he managed to cheat Assistant Vin for free.
”What is this?”
”A no… note. It is from Assistant Vincent, he left it in your room, and someone gave it to us just recently.”
Secretary Monique was not an ordinary secretary, but she was the head secretary of the Academy. She was also a graduate of the Economics and Management faculty and was at the top of her whole grade when she was a student. However, many years later she was discovered committing fraud, and the one who found her was the man in front of her.
If she had managed to escape, then she would be now one of the wealthiest women in the world. The riches she would possess would help her buy a small country, and then she would evrn become a Queen. However, this man had to ruin it all and threaten her to give her to the Academy's guards.
”Everything, but that…, please,” she begged tand even kneeled in defeat. It was well known that no one could be fine after those crazy guards laid their hands on a prisoner. There were awful rumors about people going crazy and disappearing after they met those men.
”Okay,” the man stood slowly and walked around the desk. ”Then you will work for me as my Secretary every day of your life.”
From then on the shameless man had left most of the harsh work to her. The budgets, the managing, even the meetings with the leaders of the faculties, and the awful and disastrous wizards, especially Wizard Druon. However, she couldn't deny that this man had a talent… a very useful talent that managed to control everyone. If she had trouble with those old teachers from the Economics department or a dispute arose within the Magic faculty students. He was the one who can solve it all easily, there was never a task he couldn't solve, well, except for this year. There is certainly a fluffy red-haired Princess that is giving him trouble.
”What is your answer?”
He said that time while raising a brow. She didn't have a choice, after all.
However, even if the man had that skill, even if he could find the flaws in the people and watch them like a crystal ball. Even with all that knowledge and wisdom hidden in his mind, he never caught her true intentions.