87 Stealing the forbidden fruit- Part 3 (2/2)

”Apologies for my manners. I am Calos Juves. We met at Duke Wilford's manor,” he said and she only nodded not remembering if they spoke. She had spoken to too many people and it was hard to remember who was who, ”Please have a good day,” he bowed and left the street.

Heidi stood there, looking at the man dragging the slave roughly. She didn't know but it felt like she knew him and she tried remembering where she could have seen him before. It was the scars on his face that bothered her.

”Find her! Find her! She shouldn't have gone any far!” the guards in the building scattered around while the little girl hid herself in the tree which had grown tall and wide. Men dispersed in the goal to find the slave who had escaped from her cell.

”How did she fucking escape?! You couldn't handle a small girl!” the warden asked infuriated.

”We are sorry, Sir! The door was locked when we made rounds,” a guardsman spoke up with his head down.

The girl who was sitting on the tree, with her eyes livid, she dropped down when there wasn't anyone. She ran across the land, with her body so frail and thin, the guards at the gate lost sight of her when they were alerted. She thought she was free as she continued to run, running for her life and freedom.

But the warden had caught up with her and he caught the girl who struggled. Swinging her tiny hands at him which did nothing. The man laughed at her plight, ”Did you think it is easy to escape? Young girls are worth a fortune. I wouldn- argh!” the man cried out in pain, holding his face which was oozing with blood.

The girl fell down, holding the shard of glass in her hand and she continued to run...

Heidi blinked her eyes several times, taking deep breath through her mouth. He was the warden she had escaped from when she was a child. The man who had killed the woman in her cell. Her palms felt sweaty at the knowledge of who he was. She told herself there was nothing to be worried about. After all it happened a long time ago. When Lettice arrived back to where Heidi was waiting for her, seeing the distress on her friend's face she asked if everything was alright. Heidi hasn't known Lettice for a long time but that didn't mean she didn't trust the woman. Maybe she was the only woman she trusted after her mother, Helen.

”I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine what you went through,” Lettice hugged Heidi, after Heidi has revealed a little about herself of how she had come to stay with the Curtis family, ”You don't have to worry about Howard. I will arrange my maid and someone else to look for the man.”

Reaching back at the mansion, Heidi walked inside to see no one around in the main hall. When she placed a hand on the railing of the stairs, she heard Stanley call for her.

”Lady Heidi,” he came with quick footsteps while carrying letters in his hand, ”This one came for you,” he said handing one of them to her and disappearing from her sight.

She had been dreading to receive a letter knowing well who it was from. She was afraid to open it. Scared to know what was written inside it.

Not wanting to open it, she took it to her room and let it rest on the top of her desk.