Chapter 240 - Prince Siegfried (2) (1/2)

He moved very fast across carriage after carriage. His mind immediately became frantic. He was only gone for ten minutes, in the middle of a moving train... apparently nowhere was safe. He regretted not accepting Caspar's offer to provide bodyguards for his daughter.

Hmm... however, the kidnapper would not be able to escape the moving train. Lauriel was sure that he could easily catch him. No one could escape from him after touching Aleksis!

After passing three carriages, suddenly his eagle eyes saw the figure of the young man he was looking for. The carriage was almost empty and with a very delicate movement Lauriel suddenly reached the young man's back and yanked his shirt hard.

”Hey, you!”

The man almost fell over because of Lauriel's force and his shirt was torn. His face looked shocked and angry at the same time, and he quickly hit Lauriel who managed to dodge it in a split second. Out of curiosity, the young man continued to attack Lauriel and a moment later the two of them engaged in close range altercation.

Lauriel, who had a slightly larger built, exceptional fighting skills, and experience for hundreds of years, managed to hit the kidnapper several times and carefully avoided his attacks.

Deep in his heart he felt a little impressed, because it was very rare for anyone to hold themselves in close range fights with Lauriel for more than two minutes.

He almost pulled out the ceramic knife he kept under his shirt when suddenly Aleksis' cry stopped both men on their tracks.

”Uncle Roryyyy...!!!”

Lauriel gasped and immediately turned toward the voice. He saw Aleksis scream and her little hands held her cute cheeks. She looked shocked... just like Macaulay Culkin in his famous Home Alone movie.

”Gosh...! Aleksis...! I'm so worried about you...!!” He immediately jumped toward her and hugged Aleksis who was standing near in the corner. ”Are you okay?”

”Where did you go? I woke up and I didn't see you... I was scared to be on my own. Luckily, that kind uncle took me to look for you, Uncle...” said Aleksis, sobbing.

She looked scared because she was separated from Lauriel and became even more frightened when she saw Lauriel fighting with the 'uncle' who saved her. The initial noise frightened her that she hid behind a seat and only dared to look after a few moments passed. She was shocked to see her Uncle Rory and that kind uncle fighting and she immediately screamed.

Lauriel was stunned to hear Aleksis' words. He only realized what had happened and immediately looked at the young man he had hit several times.

The man was rubbing his bleeding lips and snorting at him.

”You're like a barbarian with no manners,” he chided, ”I didn't kidnap the child. I felt pity to see her cry because you were not there, so I took her to look for you...”

Lauriel's heart sank. It turned out that he was just as bad as the child's biological father in terms of being too protective, he thought. He should have asked - not randomly hit now and question later...

”I'm sorry, I couldn't think clearly earlier. I will compensate you for all your losses. How much compensation do you want?” Lauriel asked quickly. He was not a man with small talk.