Chapter 47

“Daisy, when are you going house?”

“That’s…”

Grace answered truthfully, wishing that her mother and father’ mission would by no means finish.

“I don’t know.”

“I don’t know?”

“Sure. You?”

“I’m going to remain yet another month.”

‘I don’t need you nor I to go house without end…’

An unbelievable thought lifted its head.

Leon was not a toddler. Irrespective of how slowly the world was altering, love between nobles and commoners was nonetheless taboo. He knew it couldn’t be greater than a harmful sport of fireplace throughout a trip.

Nonetheless, the unusual place made him a special particular person. He disobeyed his mother and father for the primary time in his life and escaped. His first kiss was candy.

Deviation all the time appeared so candy.

“Would you want to fulfill once more tomorrow?”

“Okay.”

Daisy’s pale expression brightened instantly.

“Then…”

Leon, who was about to come back to choose her up within the morning, felt troubled. If he returned, he would in all probability be grounded.

“Would you prefer to play at my villa tomorrow?”

“Is that okay?”

“As a substitute, it’s a headache if the adults discover out, so let’s cover in my room and play.”

“Okay.”

What may they do within the room? Leon requested thoughtfully.

“Do you want films? There’s a projector in my room, would you want to observe a film collectively?”

Daisy rolled her eyes and nodded her head. She preferred films. That was a aid.

“Then, let’s meet at ten o’clock on the entrance to the villa seaside.”

Daisy paused whereas Leon was making a route in his head on the way to cover Daisy and convey her into the villa.

“You recognize, Leon…”

“Sure?”

“I’m truly Daisy…”

The second Daisy was hesitant to say one thing, intense headlights flashed in entrance of the 2 of them. Because the window of the black sedan stopped on a slender mountain highway, the person within the driver’s seat shouted.

“Children, get out of the way in which.”

It was a voice he knew. The face that got here out the window was additionally acquainted. His eyes widened as if the opposite particular person acknowledged him.

“Leon?”

“Father?”

…Mom?

The second her eyes met the blonde magnificence sitting within the passenger seat, Grace’s face turned pale blue.

It was clear that her mom acknowledged Grace, too. The smile that she had given to the person within the driver’s seat disappeared instantly.

When her eyes touched the blonde man whose eyes resembled Leon, it felt like blood was draining from her physique. It was clear that the person, the soldier the adults have been speaking about, was a soldier named Winston.

‘…Is that particular person Leon’s father?’

The previous villa had skinny partitions, so he may hear the adults’ conversations. Soiled monarchy pigs, the mad canine of the royal household, and the satan who brutally murdered the heroes of the Revolutionary Military… The grown-ups referred to as the person Winston that manner.

‘I’m going to get scolded now.’

Her mind turned white. Taking part in with a boy till late at night time was not a foul factor. Nonetheless, if the boy have been the enemy’s son, and if she had finished a bunch of dangerous issues she shouldn’t have finished with the enemy, she can be severely punished.

She was out of breath. To Grace, her mother and father have been simply as terrifying as they have been respectful. She may need been slapped like her brother by her father, who had been caught.

“It’s okay, Daisy.”

As Leon was attempting to cover Daisy, who had begun to shake behind his again…

“Di, soiled pig!”

…Daisy shouted out loud and shook his hand away. Leon stared blankly on the woman’s again as she ran away into the darkness.

‘What did she simply say to me now?’

He needed to consider that he had heard it flawed although from the contemptuous eyes he had seen final, it was clear what she had mentioned to him.

‘What did I do flawed?’

It felt like a blow to his head.

The following second, his father shouted at him, who was staring into the darkness, and he couldn’t bear to look away, confused by the woman’s interior ideas.

“Leon, return to the villa now. Assembly me here’s a secret to your mom.”

It was then that Leon realized that there was an odd lady with a hand protecting her face sitting subsequent to his father.

“Daisy!”

After ready for the automobile to go away, he belatedly searched the mountain path for Daisy, however the woman was nowhere to be discovered.

‘Why? What did I do…?’

It was a shout that woke Leon, who returned together with his thoughts dazed whereas repeating solely the questions with nobody to reply.

“Are you loopy for breaking necessary guarantees and taking pictures your manner all day? You already made it laborious for me from the within of the abdomen now you’re attempting to kill me, too.”

It wasn’t scary to shout loudly whereas sporting her pajamas and having a bunch of rolls on her head.

“Leon! Gained’t you come proper now? The place the hell did you study that?”

Leon didn’t reply, went into his room, and slammed the door shut. His physique leaned towards the door and slipped. He crouched on the ground and saved asking the identical questions as earlier than.

“What did I do flawed?”

Soiled pig… Irrespective of how a lot he thought of it, he didn’t do something flawed to listen to such a horrible factor. If she didn’t like kissing, she ought to have refused then. To have enjoyable all day, solely to deal with him like a beast on the finish.

…He actually preferred her, however the different particular person made enjoyable of him.

Leon threw what was in his hand throughout the room. The thrown dolphin doll smiled with out realizing his emotions.

He felt pathetic for selecting up the doll that the kid had thrown away and bringing all of it the way in which right here.

“Haa…”

He hadn’t cried since his hair grew thick, however he needed to cry. It was unbelievably pathetic.

That night time, Leon had a dream.

Heat breath. Tender really feel. Candy…

Bloody scent.

And…

‘Soiled piglet!’

He opened his eyes. Beneath was as moist as his face.

“Rattling it.”

“Your father remains to be uncontactable. The wealthy are very a lot the identical.”

Leon stood up together with his mom nagging behind him. The leftover breakfast on the desk was left untouched.

“Leon, you might be banned from going out for every week. Even now, in the event you replicate on it and say sorry, it could be shortened to a few days.”

As anticipated, a curfew was issued. Leon didn’t ask. Breaking the principles set by his mother and father was troublesome the primary time, however the second time was straightforward.

He stood on the seaside the place they have been supposed to fulfill thirty minutes earlier than the appointed time. Though he instinctively knew that Daisy was not coming, he couldn’t cease his silly wait… She nonetheless didn’t come.

When the hand on his watch confirmed 11 o’clock, Leon began strolling alongside the seaside in direction of Daisy’s cottage.

‘…What did I do flawed?’

He needed to ask. It was as a result of she was the one one who knew the reply.

He was going to apologize if he did one thing actually flawed, and if he didn’t, he would get an apology from her. It was naive to consider that he may.

Although he searched all around the shabby villa and campsites within the lush, underdeveloped mountains, this time, the woman was nowhere to be discovered.

There was solely another person.

Leon, who was tumbling down the sparsely populated hillside, abruptly stopped. A damaged headlight fell within the thick forest.

‘Is there a automobile accident?’

Leon went into the woods and walked alongside the path of the wheels. Was it going to rain quickly? A robust wind blew from the cloudy sky.

This fishy scent carried by the salty sea breeze was undoubtedly…

‘…Blood?’

Upon realizing it, he discovered a black automobile deserted in entrance of a secluded cliff.

It was a well-recognized sedan.

Ominous forebodings have been all the time overstated. Leon seemed into the damaged window. There was solely blood all around the physique, mendacity in a weird posture within the again seat.

“…Father?”

The lifeless didn’t reply.

Each time the prepare shook, the thin physique hanging from the railing shook with out power. Adults smoked on the balcony of the final carriage. Grace, caught within the hole, stared on the distant horizon the place the solar was slowly rising.

The ocean was now not seen. She didn’t wish to see the ocean anymore.

“You will have the ocean in your eyes.”

She hated her eyes.

“Soiled pig!”

He was not soiled…

The second she cried out in worry of being scolded, the face she noticed didn’t go away her eyes. She hated herself for shouting issues like that. Maybe due to that, she hated her cowardly self, who thought she was lucky to not be scolded by her mom.

“Daisy!”

…No. That was not her title.

Grace coated her ears as she heard the hallucinations. She heard a voice calling her outdoors final night time. Even after Leon’s voice disappeared, she turned off the lights all night time, held her breath, and cried within the blanket.

She heard unusual noises all night time by means of the skinny partitions.

The suppressed screams, the offended voices of adults, and the sound of hitting one thing over and over. When the sound stopped abruptly, Grace was compelled to go away Abbington Seaside as she hurriedly packed her baggage and ran away.

“Rattling it…. I didn’t imply to.”

“Dave, don’t blame your self.”

Her father comforted the person standing subsequent to him.

Nobody comforted the woman who felt responsible with out doing something.

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