Isabelle

The General and the Miss iii

There was supposed to be a meeting with Henz, Lord Cyrene, Nya, Jia and Kia excluding Isabelle for the obvious reasons of not being a part of the situation but with what had happened, Nya was not in a condition to attend any meeting.

The meeting was to be held by noon in a hall built separately from the mansion, it was where Cyrene held all his meetings. The hall was built in a circular form with beautiful carvings as the exterior and interior design, there was more than one entrance and exit door so as to make entering and exiting easy depending on the number of people present at the meeting. Apart from the several windows that was built in the room, there was also a ceiling window put in place at the center and when it was afternoon it reflected the ray of sun on the glass table that was positioned at the center of the room lighting up the world map that had been carved into the table.

The present attendees of the meeting were Cyrene, Jia and Kia. "Why isn't Nya here yet?" Cyrene asked looking at both Nya and Kia waiting for whomever to respond.

"She isn't one to come late." Kia responded not answering the question.

"Well maybe something came up." Jia inputted.

"And Henz isn't here either, it is also unlike him to come late also" Kia took notice. Cyrene then looked around suddenly realizing that Henz wasn't in their midst as well.

"Let us wait a little while longer." Cyrene suggested.

"We have waited for about an hour, I'll handle this myself excuse me." Jia teleported before anyone could comment. He appeared at the door to Nya's room politely knocking, the door was opened by none other than Henz himself which seemed to move Jia a bit but as soon as his eyes landed on Nya, he moved quickly to where she laid. A maid was attending to her, herbs of different were on the dresser.

"Nya?" Jia approached the bed.

"She fell unconscious, I brought her to her room and ordered a maid to attend to her while I watched." Henz closed the door responding. Seeing Jia didn't say anything, he proceeded to ask.

"Didn't you get the Message we sent?"

"What message?" Jia turned away from Nya to face Henz.

"The time which she fell unconscious was the exact same time we were to have the meeting so I quickly approached one of the maids to rely a message to you all that we wouldn't be present at the meeting." He paused. "I was guessing you are here to check up on her."

"If I may, can you describe the maid you sent to inform us about this situation?" Jia was slowly losing it, it was as if the servants in this house lacked respect and to not carry out an important instruction given to them especially regarding the state Nya was in, that's just crossing the lines.

"My memory is a bitten dull, she was around average height and she had either a brunette or red hair, forgive me as I cannot remember."

"That was all I needed, thank you and please do look after Nya for me." Jia walked out the room with a darkened mood, he knew exactly who the maid was. He found his way to the maid quarters, as soon as his presence was known by all, they stopped in their tracks to bow their heads. The head maid approached him.

"Do you need anything Milord?"

"Yes! Cassandra." Hearing Lord Jia needed her presence she was elated but she tried to hide her smile. Finally the lord has noticed her presence, her existence now means something to him. It wasn't that annoying human he was after anymore, he now had eyes for her. He singled her out of every maid present in the room stating that he needed her, in what way did he need her? A pleasurable way? Perhaps he needed her to serve him in bed. As she moved closer to him, she noticed his curled lashes, they weren't like the straight ones most male she had encountered possessed.

"I am at your service milord." She bowed her head"Shall we?" He offered and she was stunned by his politeness. 'This could be it.' She said in her mind. 'The moment I've been waiting for, he was going to make love to me and I was going to belong to him. She turned to look at him, fighting the urge to touch him. 'Wait for him to make the first move.' She told herself and then her luck struck, he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her in a position that her back was leaned against the wall.

Cassandra gasped as she had never being in such a position with a man of a high status and most importantly him, Jia, the man who had captured her heart for the longest of time. It was a compromising position but still, it was worth it. Jia had locked eyes with her and it was all she needed to lose it.

His hands cupped her face and slowly made it way to her neck, his gaze intensified making it hard for Cassandra to breathe, closing her eyes, she waited for the obvious to happen.

"I didn't know you were interested in the maids?" Isabelle blurted out unintentionally, she wanted to quietly leave but things turned out differently.

"I'm not." Came his hard response.

"You don't have to deny though I can see what is going on."

"Like I said, I'm not" He responded looking at the girl who has a ponytail up her head and a curious expression, she carried that everywhere.

"You just had to interrupt us, he was about to make me his." Cassandra said on top of her voice hating the very fact that Isabelle was here with them, it was as if she was everywhere or maybe she was an agent of darkness that was sent to ruin everything good for her because she certainly has, the moment she stepped foot into the mansion.Jia could hear every of Cassandra's thoughts, from when they were in the kitchen till now and he was amazed by his containment of anger."I've had it with you!" Jia poked her neck and she fell unconscious.

"Jia! What did you do?" Isabelle looked alarmed at the body on the floor.

"I killed her."

"Jia!" She screamed.

"Temporarily. I killed her temporarily, meaning I put her to sleep. It's a technique I learnt for making people unconscious." Jia quickly said to reduce her worry.

"And for a second there I thought....

"Well you thought wrong. Now run along while I properly dispose of this body." Jia shooed her. Isabelle listened and walked back from the direction which she came, she hadn't walked far when Jia words dawned on her.

"He was going to dispose her body!" She became alarmed yet again and she hurried back to where he was with Cassandra but he was no more, not even the body was in sight. "How fast can someone walk carrying an unconscious body?