Kidnapped to live in a Castle

Chapter 36- Suspicious

Chapter 36- Suspicious

_____Kyra's Pov______

It has been two months since I've been trying to contact Amara but all my attempts have been futile. I have left a million messages on Skype for her but she has not responded. It's like she has completely disappeared from the world, completely off the grid. I have been very worried about her safety and I hope she is doing fine.

The castle has been so lonely and I feel the need to leave. The maids seem terrified of me and they can barely look in my direction. Some try to smile at me but their petit bodies still tremble in fear. Something is definitely wrong here and I am going to find out what it is. I keep feeling like I know what's wrong with this place but the answer refuses to come out of my head. If I think too much or try to wrap my brain around all the issues in an attempt to remember my past, I get a killer headache.

The castle walls are beginning to stifle me and I might just lose my mind soon, if I don't find something to do with my time. I also haven't left the castle in a long time. I wonder why I have been confined to the castle's walls. Is it because Raymond isn't around? Sometimes when I feel really lonely, I spend time in the garden where I got married but the only thing that has been giving me some sort of comfort is the piano in my chambers. I play on it often to clear my mind and it brings me peace. I guess that's one thing I have from my past that I was able to remember, and that's making music. I wonder if the old me was forced to learn the piano by my parents or whoever raised me. Was it something I had always been passionate about?

I have so many questions about my past and no one seems to have the answers. Raymond never talks about my past life and over the last month, he has been acting stranger than usual. He's hardly here with me and is always away from the castle on business trips. He worries me and I'm starting to get suspicious of him. Why did Amara leave? She said something about Raymond not accepting her baby. She seemed so fearful for her life.

All this overthinking was making me feel overwhelmed and my stomach began to growl, reminding me that I had not been eating like I should. Instead of asking a maid to bring me something from the kitchen, I decided to take a walk downstairs to the ground floor.

"Hi Chef Lionel!" I said, skipping into the kitchen.

He was busy working on a huge three layered cake, instructing his staff what to do and how to design the cake so it could come out perfect.

"Kyra, my darling. How are you?" Lionel asked, leaving what he was doing and drawing his attention to me.

" I'm good...." I responded with a subtle smile and I looked away for a brief moment.

"Hungry and lonely?" he asked, looking at me intently.

"Huh?" I asked, turning my attention back to him and my eyebrows furrowing in confusion.

"You're hungry because you've been drooling over my cake from the time you arrived in the kitchen and lonely since Raymond has not been here." he responded.

I looked at him dumfounded.

"H-how did you know?" I asked him.

"The walls hear and see everything. Sometimes the walls force the future." he said chuckling.

I gave him a sad smile, wishing I could know my future because if things had to get more lonelier in this castle, I think I'd have to runaway like Amara.

"What would you like to eat, your highness?" he asked me as he clapped his hands, changing the topic and also getting me out of my daydreaming state.

"Your highness? I'm not a Queen." I said laughing.

"Kyra, do you like to read?" he asked me.

Why was he changing the topic so much? It's like he's trying to tell me something indirectly.