Chapter4: Beginning

it had been at least two hours since we started our journey. this was her first time sitting on a carriage, so was making her throw up. But she can't throw up here. the man was trying to comfort me and looked worried but wasn't able to hold his laughter.

'man what kind of man are you, your newly adopted daughter was getting sick. and you can control laughing'. she looked at him annoyed, he get that she wasn't happy.

"Sorry! I had a friend who also hated carriage and would act just like you."

so he wasn't laughing at her but remembering some funny memories. he then opened the window.

"Is this okay? or do you want to go outside?"

"wow! there are so many flowers outside."

"do you like flowers?"

"What kind of person don't?. who hates them tell me. I would go to them and would ask them why they don't."

it was the field of sunflowers and roses.

"What a beautiful phenomenon... mister do you like the flower?"

"yup I like dahlia."

"Is this why you named me Lia."

he was surprised to hear.

"you little girl, why are you so intelligent?"

said while rubbing her head against his.

"you should call me Dad, instead of mister. okay"

to tell the truth, she never had said the word dad to anyone. ' should I call him dad?' she was confused maybe because of his new request.

"you are my first dad."

'so that's why I don't want to lose you.'

*****

what I saw made me not believe my eyes, a luxury mansion.

"We are here Lia."

'am i gonna live here?'

the carriage door opened. a huge number of servent were waiting for us.

"would you give me your hand Lia?"

I nodded because I was out of words.

"Is this your house!"

"yeah isn't it beautiful"

he answered her while holding her hand, and picked her up. the servent around them starts gossiping.

"ohemm!"

the old man with a serious look on his face made a sound to silence the servants around them.

"my lord! you return. happy to see you."

"call asten and my wife."

"but who Is she..."

"my daughter Lia Asher and get a dress ready for a four-year-old child."

"yeah as the lord wish."

the butler spot out without thinking. asher who was now her dad, started walking with him. as they walked servants behind them started talking again.

"Is she her real daughter?"

"Maybe she is an illegitimate daughter."

"he did go to the funeral."

"don't talk about things you don't know and if you love your life."

the butler stopped them. he was an intelligent man who would pick the situation within seconds but was confused this time.

*****

"Lia, it's the head maid. if you want anything ask her okay."

"Hello! it's Lara... no Lia!"

" Take her to the guest room and prepare a new room for her."

the head maid with gray hair and brown eyes was beautiful, despite her age. she was a woman in her 40s or maybe 45s. Asher give her to the head maid and said to bath her.

*****

asher entered his office.

'Clara, she's just like you but I can't let him have her. he didn't deserve you nor did he deserve lia.'

"asher, how did the funeral go? and are you okay?"

a woman with peach wavy hair and a dark peach eye appeared. her face was attractive and beautiful. she was in her 20's. She was asher's wife.

"no, I am not."

"the girl you brought who is she?"

"her daughter."

"wait!... she died a year ago in an accident."

"I don't know what happened but I believe she is her daughter."

"How you are so confident."

"haven't you seen her face and eye color?"

"no haven't seen her yet but... rumors are breaking that she is your illegitimate daughter..."

"I'm gonna adopt her."

"you are not thinking of sending her back to her father!.."

"no! ..."

a silence arises in the room. because of his reply.

"what if he found that her daughter is here?"

"I won't let that happen."

"and if she found that he is her father, then what will you do?"

"she seems to lost her memories."

"....."

"she is my and your daughter now, so please take care of her."

"....."

"will asten accept her as his sister?"

"he would."

he was relieved to hear her wife answer.

*****

"no! I can do it on my own!"

"How can a young child like you would know how to bathe."

the maids trying to help her wash, however she was shy.

"I can..."

she then put her in warm water. it was a huge bathtub with bubbles in it. it water smelled like rosewater.

after washing her they started clothing her and making her hair.

"young lady, what beautiful eye colors you have got and your white silky hairs they are like soft furs...."

"....."

she was able to talk because they were not letting her.

'haha...these maids are sweet'

"it will look good on a young lady"

"no, this one will look good on her."

"give me that pin."

"you go get the shoes."

they were putting their all efforts into her.

"young lady, look how beautiful you are looking."

"wow! is it me!"

'how can I be that much pretty.'

a beautiful light blue dress with white marble pearls on it. fur-shaped white stone pin in her hair.

"I bet when the young lady will grow up boys will be bewitched with your beauty"

'no, I think they will die.'

there was a knock at the door. one of the maids d the door.

''is lady lia ready for the dinner?"

"yes, I am."

"Please follow my lead."

*****

lia and the butler were walking in a hallway. the pictures of the past heir were hanged there.

' this one looked scary'

she thought while looking at the picture of a lady hugged there.'

''she is lady nazifur, the grandmother of lord asher."

"Ohh yeah, she is ... elegant!"

"but so much scary."

"pftt..."

"she would always scold lord asher if he wasn't sitting properly. but he cried the most when she died."

"I feel sorry to hear."

he then opened the dining room.

"lord the lady has arrived."

******