Tangled Web (A Black Butler Fan Fiction)

Chapter Fifteen

Ciel stayed locked in his study for a few days after. I'd see him for most meal times but there was something running through his mind he wasn't telling me. He would tell me how Funtom, the company he was running, was doing and other things. Still, something was nagging his mind and he wasn't confessing.

I wanted to tell him that I had to go see Alois soon and I didn't want to go alone. I wanted Ciel to go with me just so Alois had divided attention. I wanted to avoid anything with Alois. The less contact the better, I thought as I looked to Ciel to the left of me.

"Ciel, are you doing anything tomorrow besides being in your study?" I asked as innocently as I could, trying to make it as unset up as I possibly could.

"No," Ciel asked as he looked up to face me.

"I was wondering if you would accompany me somewhere tomorrow," I said as I tried to keep my cheeks from getting redder and hotter.

Ciel placed his fork on his plate. "Oh, where?"

I looked to my plate. "To Alois Trancy's manor. I don't want to go there alone, and I would be much more at ease if you were with me, Ciel."

"You want me to go to Trancy's manor with you?" Ciel asked.

"Yes, if you want to," I said. I wanted to somehow let him know I wasn't trying to pressure him into coming with me for my own safety. "I could get Sebastian to stay with me."

"No, I will go with you," Ciel said as he gave his plate to Sebastian. "I don't want Alois to get his hands on you like last time."

The weird thing is that I never really told him what happened. He knows the gyst of what happened but I didn't want to tell him anything else.

I gave him a sincere smile. "Thank you, Ciel."

I didn't think Ciel was serious when he said he wanted to come with me. So, he sure as hell surprised me when he was in the carriage before I was. He looked so dignified while he sat in the carriage waiting for me. I smiled, happy he was actually holding up to his word. I got in and the carriage took off.

"I've been meaning to see Alois sicne we met," Ciel told me as he looked out the window at the passing scenery.

I looked at him oddly. I had a feeling they met before. Okay, I knew they met before; I just wondered what happened between them that made Alois snap at me like that. Lord, it seems so long ago when that happened between Alois and I.

"Oh, maybe this is a good reason for you to see him again," I said as I looked out the window on the other side of the carriage.

"This is a brilliant reason for me to see him again. I'm glad you invited me along," he said as he turned to me with a slight smile on his face. It reminded me of the smile he gave me when we were at the gala looking for that killer.

"You're welcome," I told him and returned to my thoughts.

I wondered if there was any way I could detect other demons or people under contract with demons. I read it once when I was home in that book I loved so much. Sometimes, in some instances, the people under contracts with demons could sense the presence of some other person like them, or other demons. I just wondered if what I read was true in any way.

"Selena," Ciel said in a low, soothing voice. "I get that seeing Alois is something you dread, but listen, he won't touch you. I won't let anything like that happen."

He knew my mind was on something but that wasn't it.

"I know," I said as I flashed him a smile. "Thank you."