136 Slave establishment- Part 5 (2/2)
”I am here for Heidi. My aunt is a little anxious as she's taken quite a liking towards your daughter. We wish to take her back to Bonelake as we had wedding to arrange for,” Nicholas spoke in an even tone, his dark eyes staring at the man curious for his answer, ”I don't see her here, has she gone out maybe?”
The Curtis' had already planned to spin a tale for themselves to avoid any blame falling on them and decided to lie about the events instead so that the council would not hold them responsible. Raymond didn't want the council to know that the girl had run away from them before they even reached Woville. It seemed that the girl didn't return to Bonelake, thought Simeon and gave the lord a surprised look,
”Milord, Heidi left for Bonelake a day ago. She didn't reach Bonelake?”
”What?” Lord Nicholas raised his brow in question. Nora instead took turn to speak,
”Heidi received a letter a day after we arrived back. She said it was sent by Mr. Lawson that he wanted to see her. She said she wanted to go back and left in the carriage,” she pointed out at the shed that could be seen from the window where there was no carriage, ”We...we aren't in good terms but I hoped we could patch things up. We are family,” Nora frowned looking at the lord.
”You see, Mr. Curtis. Your daughter hasn't returned back to our empire,” the lord's voice sounded calm and collected as he stated.
”Are you implying that something happened to her, milord? That couldn't be possible. My sister very rarely takes breaks in between the rides,” said Nora with a worried look and she then whispered, ”Oh no...father,” she looked at her father.
”You can tell it, Ms Nora. What is it?” inquired Nicholas.
”I-I saw Heidi leaving in the middle of the night to meet someone but she returned back. She is going to get married and therefore I didn't think it was important to speak,” with years Nora had grown up she had turned into a fine actress when it came to lying and manipulating things around her.
”Heidi wouldn't run away with a man, Nora,” her father scolded her as speaking about this wasn't what they had discussed on. If the lord wanted to meet the man everything would spill out and their lie would be caught.
Nicholas looked at the father daughter duo carefully. With what he knew soul bonds were absolute and there was no turning it back, but there were rare cases when the bond broke into nothingness. If what the girl now said was true, he clutched his hands tightly as anger began to bubble up but he simmered it down. For a family to have a sudden change of heart, thought Nicholas before smiling at them, something wasn't quite right here.
”Fath-Milord!” Danielle, the elder child of the Curtis exclaimed from behind seeing the Lord, ”Good aftern-argh!” his head was suddenly smashed against the wall and the door shut close.
”Well, that was quite an interesting story you had in there. Why don't we get to the actual facts now,” Nicholas gave them his charming smile, that brought out the dimple on his cheek as one of his hand pressed Daniell's head while the other locked his hand from behind, ”Speak. Where's Heidi?”