Chapter 7 of chapter 3 killed

Killed...

Narrator Pov....

It was one of the usual days as all maids and servants were attending to their regular duties as always. All maids who are signed under a lord all went to their chamber to clean. 

Then came a loud scream which draw the attention of the security guards standing at their duty spot. They all ran to the emergency scream of the Maiden. A lord was murdered in his own chamber. As blood flood messily on the bed stained the white sheet of the bed. with his hands hang up in the bed poles. It was a terrible horror to watched. The maid was screaming and crying out loud. 

The lord dead was immediately reported to the Duke of Hastings. He was having a brief meeting with his clue members when the word was drop in his ears. Immediately his eyes burned out in rages. Then what Marcus told him earlier was truth. There's a mouse in their midst . He stood up angry from his chair, hand stomps on the table angrily. 

"Who's the bastard that killed in my mansion!" All members of the clue was terrified in fear. What word must have upset the Duke this way. The look in his eyes could burn a soul as all avoid to look into his eyes. It was scary and dark. It could sink a soul in it nightmares. 

"I said who killed a member of my clue in my mansion!" This time he was harsh than ever. The members are more terrified. A member of the clue is Dead? Them looked at each other with curiosity, what the hell is going on! How can a lord be killed in this well security place? The question was asked between themselves. Bodies shrivering but that didn't cool the burning flames of the king 

"Where is Marcus!" He roars. " M-m-my lord, he went out to the bloody field" a shrivering guard said. "Go and check if he's back! I want all high court members at the hall !" Immediately both the guards and the members of his clue ran out for their lives. No one would like to be made as example for the crime them didn't committed. 

Immediately the bells went on ringing to alarmed everyone to meet up in the meeting hall include maids, servants or butlers, it was an emergency meeting tht demand all presence!

Marcus arrived from bloody field, with face furrowed as hell. "Young Master, the Duke demand your presence immediately" a guard man announced to him.  "What is the emergency about" 

"Young master, I think I'm not in the shoes to tell you that. He demands you" 

"Okay, you may go" he just arrived back, and the Duke couldn't allowed he to catch his breath first before summoning him. He sighed and left. The chamber hall was already burning up in fierce. As his eyes angrily shows his expression on his face. All things were disorder in the room. Marcus smirks when he steps in. Since the Duke is on his bad mood that only means one thing. It time for blood shed. 

"One idiot chose to take a live in my house!" He growled. "What can I say, you know humans are daring. They always want to get their hands in where they shouldn't" Marcus said calmly, resting on the Hall entrance. 

"You know what to do, I want that culprit dead. I mean horrible dead!" He hit his fist hand hardly on the table that makes that hard woody log crack in the middle. That wasn't surprisedly to marcus. He knows who exactly the Duke is and what he's capable of doing. When he mean blood, he wants it to be bloody. 

"But we don't know who they are. And what they're after" Marcus said, holding his jawline in a thinking mood. But it truth, they have no clue what this person is and why he chosen to killed one of his clue members. If he didn't want to be caught or alarm, he wouldn't have leave the body as a warning. In that way, whosoever this person is, is actually warning them or giving a message out to them which was totally a insults in the face of the Duke and his clue members. 

"Then what do you suggest we do?" He asked, there was still anger burning in his eyes. He really can't take the insults that someone dare to enter his mansion and threatened him. He'll make when he gets his hands on whosoever this person is their life will be hell.

"If this preson was after you, he would have come to you directly but he didn't instead going after your clue members." 

"Then what!?"

"I think he or she might being looking for something to trap you because thinking of attacking you directly would be easy for them. So, they're now to look for a weakness your weakness inorder to attacks you"  Marcus said calmly. Immediately his eyes change color to red. It's seem darker and horror

"I want you to found whosoever this culprit is and bring them to me"  his voice change from being deep to roar like a hunger beast.

"Whatever you wish my lord" Marcus bowed 

But one thing Marcus was setting for that the culprit would have gone too far in fact the culprit might be among the workers who knows but he have to keep his eyes closed. This is more tougher than it looked. Marcus dragged himself and walked after the Duke. He knows for sure he's angry and ready to ripe out any soul found guilty to this crime.

He can't accept it not in his empire! That unacceptable to the law of the Duke. 

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Isabella and Emma barge into the ladies Hall. Some of them have fully went home while few still stays back. Lily sat on her bed edge looking worried about something, immediately she looked at the entrance direction and saw Isabella and Emma approaching, she bright up her mood and smiled lovely when they were much more closer. 

"Isabella, Emma, what bought you girls here" she acted surprisedly. Of course she was surprised because maids didn't have free time this period except they're assigned to a lord. 

"We came to see you" Isabella quickly replied, "Oh really? Come come have a seat" 

The girls sat down closer to her. " I thought you girls should be on duty's. Or are your duties cancelled?" 

"No, just that something happen. Didn't you heard?" 

"Something happened? Where?" Lily asked confusedly. How would she knows if something happens when her mind is cupped up with the thoughts of going home. That one thing that scared her. How her father would react to it. It battle her. 

"A lord was found dead in his chamber" Emma said almost a whimper. "You said what?" Lily titled her head at her. It a shocking news that a lord was found dead in his chamber. That means something isn't right here. There must be a terror in the mansion. 

"When atee you going home?" Isabella asked to change the topic. Since no one knows who killed the lord. It would be better not to talked about it. There're suspicious eyes everywhere. 

"Hmm" she sighed, her mood return back to the state it was once in. How can she tell them she was scared of going back home. That her mind are trouble by what her father will do to her. Will he fully accepted her home? Or chase her out of the house since she couldn't win the Duke heart with her beauty.  She bit nervously on her lips. What the hell will she do. Should her run away from Wales? But there's nothing with her to survive on. 

"Lily, are sure you're okay?" Isabella asked, after she had stared sliently on her. "Hmmm" she sighed but her eyes were on her shoes. 

"Something wrong? Is it about your father?" She asked again. And Emma stared lost at the both of them. Isabella was worried that Lily were slient. Since she had known a little about her life. She was  sure that it might involved the issues at home that kept her mood this quiet. 

"Are you afaird to go back home?" She added.  

Lily's couldn't hide it anymore. Who the hell is she kidding. Isabella known for auree that what worries her! She's afraid to go back home! That's her fear. Her father who once treated her with love mad care but since after the dead of her mother, he changed completely towards her. His hatred came from no where! After that strange woman step into the house with her two sons. Her life become a living hell on earth. Nothing she does or say please him. As the hatred grows day by day with no reason. 

"Yes" she slowly said. "I'm afraid to go back home" 

"You're afraid to go back home but why?" Emma asked, who didn't know anything. Isabella stood up from her spot and kneel before her. Her lovely black hands were placed gently on her laps. "Lily, you can stay if you don't want to go back home" 

She smiled, Isabella was really a good friend but still funny. How can she said she can stay When she isn't sure if the Duke might send her out. This is not her house and she had no right of belonging here. 

"Isabella, you're so funny what if the Duke later asked me out?" 

"You don't have to worries about that. Maybe if I speak with Marcus. He might found a way to help you" That jerk that took her first kiss without her consent! That pervert!

She wanted to speak but her words got stuck when they heard a guard voice calling to all maids to resume theirs duties immediately!