104 Intentions- Part 4 (1/2)
Following his lead, Heidi took a sip and scrunched her brows and gulped the liquid quickly which burned her throat.
”It is strange,” she commented, looking down at her glass and then sighed.
”Trouble in paradise?” Timothy questioned her out of nowhere.
”What?”
”You seem a little lost today. Warren can sometimes be difficult to understand. We all started with different perspectives but people around him have come to the same conclusion that he isn't that bad. Oh, sorry. I meant to say Nicholas,” Timothy smiled taking an eager sip from his glass. His words made Heidi cough and she cleared her throat as the wine had entered the wrong pipe in her body, ”You look shocked. Don't be. I am a keeper when it comes to secrets,” he placed his finger on his lips with a mischievous smile.
Had she left her expressions so wide open that people could read things that were goingbetween the lord and her? The butler knew, Mr. Rufus knew, who else knew about it? And what was she supposed to say in these kind of situations?
”H-how do you know about it?” she stuttered.
”I was there when Nick asked me to lie to Warren about you falling unconscious before he took you back here. But Warren already knows so it was a scam y-”
”Warren knows?” Heidi asked him shocked.
”I don't know about the soul bond but I am definitely sure he knows that you hold Nicholas' interest,” the man shrugged throwing off words like it was nothing. It looked like her plate that held her worries kept adding one after the other, ”So what's got you so down?”
”Nothing much,” she smiled to hear him say, ”The multiple sighs doesn't appear to look like nothing,” Heidi could now understand why Nicholas and Mr. Rufus were friends. They both had the habit of pressing on subjects until they got an answer. And between the two of them, it made her wonder who had acquired the quality from whom.
”I won't tell it to anyone. Secret keeper remember,” he reminded her.
”Have you had anyone you have loved, Mr. Rufus?”
”I did once.”
”Where is she now?” she asked him curious.
”She died,” he answered with a small smile on his lips and before she could apologize he said, ”Don't be. It has been decades. If she were still alive, she would be in her fifties. She was a human like yourself,” Heidi didn't want to poke her nose where it wasn't her business.
”I see...” Heidi trailed. Wondering if Timothy might have an answer to Nicholas' behaviour, she decided to ask him, ”I think, he's been avoiding me for four days. I don't know why but since I saw the dead maid in his room, we haven't spoken much. I don't think I did anything to upset him,” she confessed to see Timothy nod his head.
”Hmm, his thirst killed the maid?” the blonde man used his thumb nail to run it between his fang the tooth next to it, ”And here I thought he would be love sick after the bond. That's disappointing. In Rhys case, he was-” Timothy stopped talking abruptly. Something then clicked his mind and he asked Heidi to give her hand.
”Why?” asked a confused Heidi.
”Can you trust me on this one?” he asked her and taking her glass from her to place it below the hand he held, he took the scale which laid on the desk and ran it over her skin, letting the drops of blood fall into the glass. Once he was satisfied with the amount of blood that mingled into the red colored wine, he let her hand go while humming a tone merrily like a mischievous elf. Swirling it well, he checked the glass before giving it back to her, ”Give this one to Nicholas and make sure he drinks it. Do not give it through the butler because Stanley would be suspicious about it. I will see my way out then,” he patted her head with a smile and left her alone in the room with the two glasses which was filled lesser than half of the size of glass.