113 Him- Part 3 (2/2)

”I will see if I can find anything about him,” he offered.

”You will?” she turned around to face him, forgotten about their naked bodies.

”Anything that will ease your mind, sweetheart. Did anything else happen during your time in Woville?” he asked her casually to see her dart her eyes.

She nodded her head, taking time to put her thoughts into sentence, ”The Duke tried to-he tried what you did a few moments ago here,” Nicholas' eyes narrowed at her words and he evened his temper when she looked up at him, ”A-aren't you mad at me?”

”For what reason? It isn't hard for me to point an unfaithful person in a crowd who is going to kill me. And frankly, you don't look the part. Your beating heart gives away a lot of things. I am sorry to hear what happened. You won't have to meet your family or the Duke from now,” he dropped a tender kiss on her head,

”Don't be so nice to me,” she could feel her eyes water.

”Why not? Don't tell me you're the kind to believe you don't deserve it.”

”Things don't stay the same,” she murmured but he heard it well.

He knew it was the wrong time to smile but he smiled anyways which she couldn't see. It was ironic how both of them worried about the same things.

”Let me tell you this, Heidi,” he said, still holding her in his arms, ”I have no plans to leave you. Not now, not in this lifetime nor in the next one. I will spoil you with everything I am capable of. You have nothing to fear,” and when she turned around, he saw her anxious to which he leaned forward but this time to place a kiss on her forehead.

Once Heidi left the room clothed, Nicholas sat in front of the fireplace in his room which was extinguished. It was no wonder she could withstand a gory scene. To witness something so horrific at a young age, he thought, only few were chosen to such destiny.

He hadn't heard the name Doriam Scathlok before and Nicholas was the kind of man who remembered people, unless he hadn't spoken to the man before. He recollected his butler saying how he found her to be shaken after meeting a man on the day of her and Warren's engagement. All this while Heidi had the key to who was trying to create trouble in Woville against the vampires.

Then there was the other person was another person Heidi had mentioned. Calos Juves. He knew the man. He was the guard who had been assigned before he bought Stanley from there. He was the in charge, the head of authority in the slave establishment after Wilford.

Nicholas laughed at a private joke.

He remembered the night he had gone to visit one of the slaves he had put in himself when he saw a child running past him, several yards away. Usually, he would have picked the runaway slave and would have put the person back in the establishment but he wasn't in the mood that night. Going to the building, he had met the guard to see a freshly carved mark on his face.

It wasn't uncommon but neither was it common for slaves to escape due to the tight security the facility provided. If his calculations were right, the child he had seen running past his gaze was none other than Heidi.