Death Thread

Chapter 19

"You too Lea." The duke said as he held her shoulder.

"Brother, is it really true that she is your daughter, because if she isn't I will kill her and her fam-"

"They're already dead, so don't worry too much about them." Eleanor said and started to walk in the woods.

"Lea." The duke shouted. "Really Tatiana. She's Layla's daughter." The duke explained and got inside.

"For real, Layla's daughter, but she, she's dead right?" The duke sat down and sighed.

"She is, she was 11 when I took her in my estate, it has passed 7 whole years since she died. She even became stronger than I thought, but then I remembered what kind of world this is." The duke said as he pinched his nose bridge. Tatiana sat down next to him.

"I'm sorry to hear that, I know how much you loved her, I'm so sorry, I didn't know." Tatiana said as she tried to comfort him, he just laid back and tilted his head back.

"Yeah, she is strong though, she is stubborn like her mother, but she has the power to bring down the enemy with the tip of her finger if she wanted, so I brought her here to father, he knows how to train them." As soon as the duke was done talking an old man came in the room.

"If it isn't my son that forgot about me." Said the old man and sat.

"Louis, you know that they stated you dead, if I came here, they would have followed me." The duke sat up straight.

"Oh, shut it, you know damn well that they wouldn't dare." Louis said as he pointed at him.

"Actually, they would father, he is raising a young girl, she is 18 years old-" Louis interrupted Cora, he was surprised.

"So, the rumors are true, so where is this girl?" Asked Louis as he looked for her in the room.

"She's not here Louis, thanks to my sister that she didn't know she is out in the woods now." Said the duke as he sighed.

"Don't worry, my son and my daughter are in there too." Said Tatiana as she smiled.

"Cora, I'm not worried for her, I'm worried what comes in front of her." Said the duke at Tatiana, she was speechless.

As Eleanor was sitting in a tree, she had a long sigh until she heard footsteps. She decided to wait for them and jump behind them. She saw two people a girl and a boy.

"We need to go back home, what if mother will scold us again that we are late." The girl said as she looked worried.

"Hush, I heard something." Said the boy as he looked around and took out a small knife.

Eleanor jumped and landed right behind the boy and touched his neck with her dagger. The boy froze on spot, the girl screamed but Eleanor didn't let her scream for long.

"Scream and he dies." Eleanor said as she held her dagger tighter to his throat.

"Who are you?" Asked the boy as he raised his hand in the air, Eleanor looked at his hands, his knife was gone, then she looked at the girl, the girl was coming towards her, by the side. The girl tried to stab her but it was no use, as Eleanor moved her body backwards and kicked the boy in the legs, the boy fell on the ground.

She turned towards the girl and ran towards her, she went to the side and lowered her body as she dodged her knife, as she raised her body and grabbed her hand and threw her on the ground.

"Who were you following? State yourselves." Eleanor said as she stood in front of them.

"We live here, we came here with our mother, she is staying in here to train." Said the girl as she was holding her back.

"So, you came here to meet Louis Normandy?" Asked Eleanor as she hid her knifes in her thighs.

"Yes, we came to practice with grandfather." Said the girl, the boy smacked her arm.

"Ouch, sorry, my grandfather has died, but who are you again?" She tried to lie and change the subject, but that didn't work on Eleanor.

"Don't worry, I know that grandpa is alive, and I am the duke's daughter, Ryan Normandy." She said as she looked around, the reaction of the twins was unexpected.

"You are our cousin; we are children of the house Demian." The girl said as she looked excited. Eleanor looked at her with widen eyes, and then to the boy.

"So, you are aunt's Tatiana's children?" She asked and turned her head away again.

"First we need to leave." Eleanor said and started to run, so did the others. As Eleanor was almost reaching home, she looked behind and saw that the girl fell down, so she turned and helped her, as the girl started to ran it was a bit too late for Eleanor.

Someone caught her leg and she fell down, as she fell down, she held her bodyweight on her hands, with her other free leg, she pushed her body from the ground and hit them, she got up and held her wrist, then she took a knife and threatened him.

"Who the hell are you?" She said as she pressed the knife on his neck. He looked awfully familiar.

"I'm s-sorry, I was followed here, please help me." Said the boy.

"Wait are you the knight at the palace at that time?" Eleanor said as she was trying to remember his name.

"Miss Normandy?" Eleanor looked again at him, and she remembered his name.

"Edward. Who is chasing you?" Eleanor asked as she helped him get up, she saw eight men coming from the woods, she took Edward behind her.

"Who are you?" Eleanor asked as she looked all at them, figuring a plan out of here.

"Give us the boy behind you, and we won't touch you." Eleanor straightens out and yawns.

"I'm not giving him without an explanation." Said Eleanor as she was glaring at the man that spoke.

"He tried to kill the prince, so he won't be able to escape death." Eleanor started laughing uncontrollably.

"Sorry, I just..." She tried to hold her laughter in.

"Sorry, but do you really believe that HE has the ability to kill someone who is trained?" Eleanor said as she grabbed Edward by his neck and pointed at him.

"Either way, give him to us, before you regret it." He said as he took a step closer to them.

"Take another step and you'll die; you are on my property right now." Eleanor said as she glared at the others, but something unexpected happened. The prince came from the woods. Eleanor's breath hitched; Edward noticed.

"If it isn't my lady, lady Normandy." Said the prince as he walked past the other knights, he was coming closer and closer to Eleanor.

"W-what are you doing here my prince?" She asked as she tried to remain her cool, he brought his gaze as same as hers.

"I'm here to see if he really is my attempted murderer." Eleanor scoffed and looked the prince straight in the eyes.

"He is not my prince, if he was, he would try and do something to me, don't you think so, my prince?" The prince grinned.

"Well indeed, you are right, but the killer wasn't a man, it was a girl." Eleanor gasped, then she tried to act.

"How dares a girl try to kill the prince, does she even have shame on herself." She said as she touched her cheeks and shook her head.

"Indeed, now that I think she had your heigh, miss Normandy." The prince stepped closer to her.

"Wait, does the prince think that I tried to kill you?" All of them gasped. Eleanor knew what she was doing.