Chapter 11

We needn’t explain a thing about us to Ms. Maggot because she somehow knew everything.

“Can I get you something to eat? Breakfast perhaps. The bugs in your eyes talk about your missed breakfast.” Muttered her in a jolly manner.

“You seem to know a lot Ms. Maggots. It feels like a threat to an ordinary person. We shall take the coffee please.” I Answered.

“Nice choice. You can’t visit a bee keeper and not ask for honey. “She stated having us all laugh to what she again expected to be a joke.

“I’m really sorry for the loss of your father miss Lyle. He was a different man. Different from any other man I’ve ever met.”

“Thank you Ms. Maggot.” I responded.

“And you? Miss Duskwick? Called maggot when Willette gazed back at her with a smile. “She was always in your father’s thought. The Duskwick princess. He always thought of her as someone who will be of value in the future. If only he was hear so I could answer that question he always asked me so badly.”

“What’s that?” I asked.

“Every time he sat right here.” Pointed her at a metallic chair that wiggled repeatedly as she served me a small cup of coffee. “He would ask me. Maggot, why do you think that young Duskwick is so much important to me? And I would always tell him to wait until the right time that reason would be showed to me. You know what’s very disappointing?” she asked and I rented it back.

“What?”

“The right time has arrived but he is no more. I wouldn’t say he would be happy about it but he would understand the power of fate. He above anyone would believe my eyes. But you know what? Enough about the nagging, I want to take you up the Smallhaven mines so you know what’s been moving along.”

We walked along her passed the back door that led inside the tunnels of the Smallhaven mine.

“Wow.” I muttered. “Don’t tell me the workers from this mine go through your home?” I questioned.

“They have no idea about it. This is the back of the haven mines and there is a door that only I can open from this side and on the other side, it’s a wall. All the boys here call me Mama. You wouldn’t want to know the theory behind it. Do you two girls have anything going on?” she asked and I looked puzzled to what she meant.

“What do you mean by anything?’ I asked starring back at Willette who wasn’t willing to say a word at all.

“Never mind my dirty thought.” Snapped she picking up a white stone from under a brick that she placed in a tinny hole having the wall create a door through and we walked inside. "Down here is were I keep the gold and right through the other door you hear the noise is where the boys are digging now. Do you mind?" Inquired she handing me a key pointing to the locks.

"Sure!" Snapped I taking the key in my hand then in to open what I expected to be a door.

"This is the Smallhaven safe. As you will read in the accounting books, down here is a collection of sixty thousand kilo gold bars, a million pounds, eight hundred thousand shillings. Nine hundred fifty thousand pence and a few farthings. The upper safe has your mother's jewelry that is worth eight million pounds."

"Is this where my parents kept their money?"

"No. This is the money collected around Smallhaven. Every business has it's accountabilities."

"I will need to take those books back with me to Duskwick if you don't mind ms Maggot." Said I.

"Sure. It's Your business after all dear. I will just get them ready for you to take."

"Thank you."

It didn't take us so much around Smallhaven and before midday, we were back to Duskwick and I led straight to the study where I spent the rest of the evening going through the business books of Smallhaven with Willette seated reading a book i had not the idea of.

After i was done, I led out with her in my back and went out for dinner. I ordered a seat be added for her right next to mine which wasn't to give Mr. Edward a smile but he had not tried to compromise my requests.

After the quiet dinner at the table, we both took the stairs up the bedrooms and she bid me a goodnight leading to her room and I to mines.

When I arrived my room, everything through the day rushed back to my head and I couldn't handle myself to sleep so I sat in thoughts with my lights on which I believed picked willette's attention and she later on headed to to my door on the outside snapping.

"Can't sleep?" She asked as I startled out of my thoughts heading on to open the door for her.

She stayed standing at the door entrance when I went throwing myself into the cover.

"No! I can't." I answered.

"You mind I kept you company? Can't sleep either."

"Sure. Please. Lock the door though. " agreed i and she walked slowly to my bed stand after closing the door.

"It's very heavy." She said.

"What?" Asked I confused.

"The responsibility. It's very heavy. And it all fell on your shoulders. May I ask you something if you don't mind Tara?"

"Go ahead."

"How old are you?"

"Ha!" Chuckled I surprised of why she was asking. "I'm fifteen. How old are you willette?"

"Fifteen is under age for a girl around Duskwick. Me? I'm seventeen." She answered.

"How did you manage back in Eklane?"

"Back in Eklane." Started she seating on the bed. " I had so many workers. I barely accounted for the money itself. The only thing I wanted was to help the children who had lost there parents in the Maga. It's the orphanage Mr. Flynn and I had started.