
“Anne why do you look so worried?” Nora asked Anne when she accidentally passed her and saw Anne's worried face.
“Young master Nora forgive me, but has the young master ever met Miss Leathina?” Anne asked Nora, hoping to find a clue.
“I just met him, but only briefly.”
“Do the young master know where the lady went after her?”
“Kakak Leathina go that way.” Nora said pointing towards the corridor leading to the park.
“Well thank you young master, I'm sorry." said Anne politely then immediately walked in a hurry in the direction Nora told her.
Anne went down the corridor in a huff and saw the floor of the corridor being dirty because of the alcohol spill.
“Who spills alcohol recklessly like this?” Anne muttered while looking down trying to avoid a puddle of alcohol so that her shoes did not get wet.
“This is why it's here? What do not-don't ..” Anne guessed when she accidentally found Leathina's hair accessories that she had placed in Leathina's hair.
Anne continued her search by following in the footsteps of the men's shoes who seemed to have accidentally stepped on a puddle of alcohol and left traces of shoe treads on the floor and ended up in a room prepared as a temporary resting place for her the guests are coming.
“This room, Miss Leathina must be in this room.” His murmured confidently then hurriedly returned to the main hall.
Anne circulated her gaze throughout the main hall looking for someone she could ask for help with and then her eyes saw the Duke and Duchess sitting together enjoying their meal.
“Mr Duke!” His screams attract people's attention.
“What's Anne?” Asked the Duke then immediately stood up.
“No-nona, Miss Leathina kidnapped someone!” he shouted again so that everyone would hear him.
Hearing Yasmine's words makes Winter and Yardley immediately approach to find out the truth from Anne.
“Pardon my delay Mr. duke, but what is this, why is everyone gathered?" Asked Edward who had just entered the main hall and was about to arrive along with Zeyden who was also late to the party.
“No-nona Leathina kidnapped by someone, Prince!” Someone told Edward who had just arrived.
“Explain to me what exactly happened Anne?” Duke Leonard asked sternly, the veins on his face looking tightened from the worry of seeing that the Duchess immediately calmed him down to regain her composure.
“I did not see Miss Leathina in the main hall, for fear I sought her out and was told by young master Nora to take Miss walking towards the park. But, while in the corridor I found an alcohol spill and accidentally found a hair accessory that I wore to Miss Leathina earlier, she said,” Anne shows a hairpin on everyone purposely showing her as a booster, “And I also saw footprints that seemed to have accidentally stepped on a puddle of spilled alcohol I followed those footprints and suddenly heard a screaming voice in the room where the guests were resting and it seemed like it was a sound miss Leathina.
“Show the way Anne!” Duke Leonard's orders to Anne.
Anne immediately pointed out the path where Leathina was being followed by almost everyone who attended the party that night, including Edward and Zeyden who arrived late.
...
“Duh, that useless one! Why was it discovered.” Yasmine's mind while clenching her hands.
“Liza, haven't I ordered to find where they are?” yasmine whispered to her personal servant.
“I've searched all over the place I know Miss but I couldn't find their whereabouts.”
“Akh! Basic useless!” Yasmine clucked in annoyance.
...
Thomas patiently opened one by one the straps in Leathina's dress then at the moment would open the last rope leathina blinked Thomas's eyes that saw it immediately pulled one of Leathina's dress straps then immediately tied Leathina's hands together so as not to rebel.
“Why so soon!” Thomas muttered while tying Leathina's wrist.
“Ah, Damn!” she cried with annoyance when she managed to open Leathina's outer dress but it turned out that Leathina was wearing a dress that was layered with many straps that had to be opened.
Leathina smiled as she looked at Thomas's face, which was now visibly irritated just by his dress.
“You do not, do not...” his speech was interrupted when he saw Leathina who was conscious but did not panic and instead calmed down while smiling to see her, “Did you not faint in the first place?!” asked Thomas furiously.
“Kam...” Leathina's speech was interrupted when Thomas also clogged her mouth to avoid yelling.
Suddenly there was a noise from outside the room they used accompanied by a rumble of steps that seemed to be in a hurry.
“What's going on outside why it's so noisy, let it be none of my business. I have to do my job here.” Inner Thomas did not bother with the noise from outside the room then continued his work back with the worst rush he began to tear Leathina's clothes with a knife.
“Brakk”
The door to the room where Thomas was holding Leathina suddenly exploded and Duke Leonard and the duchess entered, followed by Winter, Edward, Zeyden, Yardley, Nora and Nicholas were not left behind as well as curious guests.
They all saw a situation that shocked everyone, seeing Thomas pointing a knife at Leathina whose hands were tied and her mouth stuffed with a handkerchief.
The spills of red alcohol soaked Leathina's silver dress further aggravated the mood, misunderstanding and thinking Leathina had been harmed.
“Tsak”
“Tak”
“Pak”
“ARGGHHH!!”
Edward reflexively throws a sword at Thomas's hand, pointing the knife at Leathina and stabbing her in the hand, Winter and Zeyden do the same. Zeyden struck an attack with his magic, beating Thomas' chest back and spurting some blood from his mouth while Winter threw two daggers at Thomas's feet and fell back knees on the floor.
“What the fuck!” Duke Leonard said furiously, his face flushed red and the veins on his face were clearly visible for restraining emotions.
“Nona Leathina!”
“Leathina.”
“Kakak Leathina!”
The strangulation of Anne, Duchess Nice, Nicholas and Nora almost simultaneously. They then immediately approached Leathina and hugged her then immediately untied the binding of the hands and opened the cloth that clogged her mouth and looked bruised around the leathina hand which seemed to occur because Thomas was too strong to bind her hands.
“YOU DARE!” Nicholas with explosive emotion approached Thomas and thrust his fists into Thomas's face.
“Argh!” thomas squealed in pain, yet he had time to stabilize his body hit-by-hit from Nicholas he continued to get.
“How dare your filthy hands touch Leathina!” He shouted furiously and then pulled out the sword that had been thrown by Edward to stab Thomas in the chest to kill him directly on the spot.
“Nicholas don't!” Winter quickly stops Nicholas' actions.
“Don't arrest me, let go of me! Let me kill this fucking bastard! You're from a family huh!!” Nicholas rebels trying to release Winter who locks his movement.
“Quiet Nicholas, killing him won't solve the problem. We have to interrogate him to find out what his purpose is to do such a dirty thing even more on Leathina.” Winter tried to calm Nicholas down.
"You can kill him after." whispered Winter suddenly made Nicholas comply after listening to him.
“Release!” Nicholas finally calmed down after hearing Winter's words.
“Trang ..” He removed the sword he had pulled from Thomas's hand in any direction.
“Fucking basics! if Winter hadn't held me back I would have killed you.” Threatening Nicholas to Thomas, despite having regained his composure, his killing aura still enveloped the furious Nicholas.
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