Chapter Thirteen
“Is there something wrong?” I asked, narrowing my eyes at her.
She wasn‘t touching the drink and instead was staring at the teacup a little strangely. My heart sank. Had she only been pretending to not know what I‘d just done?
But her eyes then began to water, a timid smile twitching at her lips.
“No, it‘s just… this is really nice of you, Miss. Thank you for being so considerate,” she said, softly. “I know I‘m just an attendant, but you‘ve really made me feel like a part of the family by doing this.”
I watched as she took a sip and instantly my heart leapt. She‘d drunk the tea and hadn‘t hesitated when asked to serve it to my parents.
A bright smile instantly broke out on my face and I ran to her, grabbing her hands in mine excitedly.
“Thank you…,” I said sincerely.
“Miss?” she asked, confused. “What‘s wrong? Why are you thanking me?”
“Because the letter I gave you yesterday was to say that I would poison my parent‘s tea tonight, and you happily served it to them and even willingly drank it too. This means you didn‘t read the letter,” I said,
calmly explaining.
She jolted away from me and frantically turned to the tea she had just drunk in disbelief.
“It‘s okay! Relax! It was just some lemon and green tea leaves. I‘m terrible at herbology anyway.”
“Miss, why would you play such a nasty prank on me like that?” she asked furiously, raising her voice.
I hadn‘t intended to make her angry, but I suppose I did just admit to trying to poison her.
“Please lower your voice. It wasn‘t a prank. I did it to make sure I could trust you,” I explained. “There is someone after me, Lucy. They‘re going to kill me. I can‘t give you all the details and you absolutely cannot tell my parents. If you do, then I won‘t be able to protect myself. I can‘t do this without your help.”
She looked at me warily like I was insane, unable to find any words to respond.
“I‘m not crazy, Lucy,” I said adamantly. “If you help me, I‘ll even pay you double your yearly salary for your time and discretion. So please… help me.”
It took a few moments but, finally, her eyes softened and she nodded her head in agreement.
I think she could feel now that this wasn‘t a prank but actually a very real threat that I was begging her to help me with. Not just a child‘s silly fear, but something far more substantial.
able to tell someone about my very real problems. Or,
my body relax.
to embrace me nevertheless, despite that pain inside. I needed to push those thoughts out if I was
need me to do?”
any time, jumping in immediately
begin with, I need a separate bank account set up under an alias in order to amass some funds independently. I also require some investment accounts… but that will come later. Oh! And I
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more instructions but if you can help me with these things to start off with, it would really help me so much. Being
think these were probably the last words she ever expected a child to be asking
kid, Lucy, but I really need you to trust me. Can you
looked hesitant but eventually nodded her
someone approaches you and offers
widened a little. “How do
some wealth within the next few weeks that
nodded her head again before, suddenly, my mother walked into the kitchen,
with playful curiosity, putting her teacup in
tense air that had just been between Lucy and
I said slyly
me a reluctant smile
about Aleric, are
and, instead, forced
“…Something like that!”
finish schoolwork, and left before any more awkward topics came up. By the time I was safely back in my room, I was immensely relieved to be alone with my thoughts again. Because whilst stage one of my plan had gone successfully, there was
next day I was extremely distracted in my thoughts. I was excited that things had gone so well last night and was eager to move on to the next part, but unfortunately, I had to wait. There were things that
unopened letter from the abandoned lot. I was pleased to see that the
as distracted but I did see Myra in passing who gave me a small smile and
However, seeing her still nagged at me over where I could possibly know her from. I felt like there was something important I really needed to remember. Like some sort of… major event? I had to shake it
by painfully slow. So much so that I found myself looking out the window during Modern History, in my own world. I could hear the teacher in the background but
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suddenly called from the front of the
staring at me expectantly. Had she
with silence, the class quickly all turned their eyes towards me
I missed that last part. What was the question?”
class quietly snickered at my unpreparedness
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