Aster Veren
Episode 74

- Ansel

"We've reached sir." Tomi said after parking the car in a special parking lot.

"This? Why take me to Ian's?" I asked before getting out of the car while watching Ian's residence.

"That ... actually Mr. Ian volunteered to lock the person up in a secret room in his residence, so–" he replied visibly hesitatingly saying what he had in mind, but I quickly got out of the car and made him stop talking. Yes, I have indirectly cut his words.

"Give up, take me to the secret room!" Tell me I don't want to waste my time because right now my hands are itching to teach him a lesson.

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- Arshel

"Master! To–please stop beating her, she can lose consciousness before we can interrogate her," Eric blurred my misty eyes.

"Huh, looks like I'm out of control huh?" I muttered with my irregular breath while watching my bloody fist from wrongly hitting the person before me.

So upset I didn't even realize I had hit the wall behind him a few times when he managed to dodge my fist. But soon I managed to put my fist in his face, not less than my fist on that wall.

"Thank God he's still alive." Eric muttered while examining his pulse and breathing.

"You think I'm gonna kill him?" I asked him to nod with his serious gaze and petrified me for a few seconds because he did not want to admit the truth of his gaze, "Ya–yah, I want to finish but that person forbid me. Huh, s*alan!" I continued to recall the words of Ian's brother who warned me to hold myself back.

Besides, who can resist knowing that the man lying in front of me has something to do with my mother's death? Moreover, I heard he threatened Hans to shut up by pretending to have lost his memory.

"Arrgh, s*alan!" My growl couldn't let go of my memory when I saw my mother's last condition in the hospital.

"Hha–ha,haha .. This is really sick fool!" The man's laughter tried to rise from his prone position with great difficulty and it made my frustration again overflow.

"Hee... Can you still move? You can still laugh and show me that smile of yours .. Should I rip your mouth off?" I said with my sharp gaze as I clenched my hands again.

"Then he won't be able to open his mouth to answer all my questions." Ansel's voice surprised me so much that it made me reflex to turn to his arrival.

"Ka–kak!"

"... hem? You beat him up Arsel?" Her question made me throw my face away from her as quickly as I could when I felt a dark aura from her body, moreover her gaze was extremely sharp.

"Didn't I tell you to wait? Why can't you–" The next stop when Eric cuts his words.

"Mo–please forgive me sir, it looks like Mr. Arsel is following me to the residence of lord Ian secretly. And when he found out that Rigel and I had secured this man, Mr. Arsel went ahead and hit him in the face." It definitely reminds me of what happened a few hours ago when I saw Eric and Rigel take that guy out of his car. I subconsciously lunged at the man with my fist.

"It seems you've ignored my warning huh?" Ian sis made me shudder when I saw his sweet smile while walking closer to my sister and Tomi.

"Well whatever. Looking at his condition now, it seems like you've vented all your anger on him right?" Said his brother as he moved his feet closer to the man who was still sitting on the floor with fresh blood flowing at the corner of his lips and temples.

"And now ... is my part, answer my question honestly! If I see you lying just a little bit then don't expect you to live peacefully in the bars." Continue while crouching and grabbing the collar of the man's shirt with his super sharp gaze.

"Uwaah. if it's like this I won't be able to interfere anymore." I muttered in horror at my brother's cold nature.

"You two are the same." Brother Ian's words made me glance at him who was already standing next to me.

"Don't joke! How can I be equated with that cruel human?!" Shall me while pointing at the back of my brother who is still clutching the man's collar.

"Hey..." His murmur again showed his sweet smile which made me shudder in horror.

"It looks like this human beside me is also as cruel as big brother huh?" My whisper tried to avoid his direct gaze.

"Hem? Did you say something?"

"Ti–no."

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- Esther

It was 09:30 p.m., Dad hadn't returned from his office. I don't usually leave before I wake up, and he doesn't usually work this late.

"When do you know tomorrow I have to go to the dorm, but why hasn't this hour come home yet?" I continued muttering, feeling worried because my father had not yet come home.

Besides, my conversation with Teo this afternoon was still ringing in my head. For some reason I'm getting curious about last year's events that happened to Carel, I can see Teo hiding something from me about it. But he didn't want to tell me and pretend he didn't know.

"Why did he hide it from me? What was the problem last year?" I muttered as I walked out of the room with my mind fixed on Carel.

When he remembered it, today he didn't come huh? Is Carel busy preparing for tomorrow huh?

"Miss? Why aren't you asleep?" Mila's voice surprised me as I was going downstairs.

"Itu–"

"Oh, I'd better get some sleep now before you get back. Don't you have to go to the dorm tomorrow?" He said it looks riled up, it looks like Mila's sister is afraid of getting scolded by dad because I haven't slept.

"But I want to wait for papa in the living room, I can't sleep .. didn't you call?"

"No miss."

"Why hasn't papa come home yet?"

"Ka–then I want to make you a hot chocolate miss?"

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- Villa

"Huh, so tired .. It feels like today is a very long day huh? All the things that the lady needs are also packed, then it's time to go to bed so that she can get up early to prepare breakfast for miss." I muttered while stretching my muscles and intending to return to my room after checking Mr. Ansel's study, afraid that Mr. Rigel had forgotten to close the window of the room.

"Miss? Why isn't she sleeping?" I continued while stopping my steps when I saw Miss Aster coming out of her room with a worried expression.

I quickly stepped back my legs to the stairs and stopped the steps of the lady who was also going down the stairs in front of her.

"Miss? Why aren't you asleep?" I asked to surprise him and make him not to continue his steps down the stairs in front of him.

A–ada what's with me? Why surprise him? Miss was surprised. I continued in my heart when I saw the surprised expression of the lady who turned to me and made me feel guilty for stopping her steps.

"Itu–" he muttered with a smile of his feet.

"Oh, I'd better get some sleep now before you get back. Don't you have to go to the dorm tomorrow?" I suddenly felt angry, I don't know. I feel like I'd be taken by you if she knew she hadn't slept and was waiting for her return.

Uwaaah... How is this? Imagining myself getting scorned by Mr. Ansel alone has made my sweat splatter like this. I continued in my heart while squeezing the white apron that still adorned the maid outfit on my body.

"But I want to wait for papa in the living room, I can't sleep .. didn't you call?" Miss asked to destroy my daydream.

"No miss." I could not turn away from his gloomy expression.

"Why hasn't papa come home yet?" He muttered while watching the door of the house that was still tightly closed from the top floor with one of his hands that had gripped the handle of the stairs beside him.

Miss ... is she lonely without Mr Ansel? Yes, after all in a house this big there are only two maids, three butlers, a gardener, a driver, and a security guard. If you add the ladies and gentlemen, the residents of this house there are ten people.

Now there are only eight because the master is not home and Hans is still hospitalized. Every day the servants were busy with their respective jobs, until there was no time for me to play with the lady. Lucky young master Carel always comes to accompany the lady to play when the master is not at home, but at times like this the young master is not even there. If so, the lady will go to the mistress' room and sleep together. But now? The lady has only Mr. Ansel ....

"Ka–then I want to make you a hot chocolate miss?" I made the lady nod her head weakly.

"Thank you, Mila." He said while forcing his sweet smile, I somehow want to cry now.

Hannah! how do you usually comfort a lady when she's as moody as she is now? My mind feels proud of Hana who is already very familiar with Miss.

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