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"Lady Althea. Your father wants to see you."
Why is everyone delaying me from where I want to go?
"Can it wait?"
The butler looked at me with a confused expression. He shook his head.
Really? You're just gonna let him boss you around?
This inside voice thing is getting really creepy.
"Milady?" The butler was looking at me like I had grown two heads.
"I'll... I'll be going now." I'm probably acting like a robot right now. But, how can I not? That voice in my head was not mine!
I knocked once on the large oak door.
No answer.
Twice.
No answer.
"Father? You wanted to see me?"
No answer.
What kind of sick joke is he playing this time?
"I'm coming in, Father."
I pushed the handle.
Locked.
Ugh, what the hell?
I pushed the handle with more strength, to no avail.
"Father!"
Suddenly, a thud came from inside the office.
So father is inside. Then, why isn't he answering the door?
A scream followed the thud.
"ahh!!"
What the...
My hand slipped from the handle and I took slow steps back.
"Father!" I called out again.
No answer
I took a pin off my hair, letting it fall loose now that it wasn't being supported.
Inserting the hair pin inside the lock, I twisted it.
Click
I hurriedly turned the handle and pushed the doors open, just in time to see the window open, the wind messing up the curtains.
Father was nowhere to be seen.
"Father? Are you here?"
Hm.
I walked up to his desk, noticing papers scurried everywhere. The wind messing them up.
What a mess.
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Althea
Romance"My sword is one inch away from slicing your neck. My victory is one inch away, yet why can't I do it, Althea? What kind of spell have you cast on me to have me thinking about you all day?!" ----------- Byeol meets a tragic death at age nineteen...
