Finding My Nightingale [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Twenty Nine

Twenty Nine

***Erica's POV***

I walked out of William's room where he's hospitalized and back to the stables. I see that Elena, Joseph and Johnny had already made it back.

"So what did you find out?" I asked as I sat down on a bench.

"We figured out a way to get rid of him." Joseph says.

"How?" I asked, eagerly.

An awkward silence fell upon us as the boys stared at Elena.

"What? What's going on?" I look at each one of them and caught Joseph elbowing Elena.

She sighs, "we followed Johnny down a hallway and he ran into him and he started yelling at Johnny and right before Johnny could run off. He told him that you were to be in the Far East of the garden by no later than seven."

"Okay, what's that got to do with getting rid of him?" I asked putting on a brave face. I hates when I had to meet him alone. He would try stuff and whenever I would deny him he would beat me. I started to shiver uncontrollably and I had three pairs of eyes staring at me.

"Erica? Are you okay?" Elena asked me.

"I-I'm fine. I get this way sometimes. It'll pass."

"You looked frightened, sis." Joseph comes to comfort me and I lean into my brother's chest.

"I'll be fine. Just finish what you were saying, Elena."

"Well, we know that if you don't go, he'll hurt you but if you go with a cup of poison I think that'll do the trick."

"Y-you want me to p-poison him?!" My voice started to shake.

"We don't have to do this, Erica if you can't do it." Joseph says.

"Yeah, we can find another way." Johnny says.

Elena just sits back and watches me carefully. She knows there's something I'm not telling her but she doesn't pursue the topic.

"Can I have a moment alone with Elena?" I ask the boys, they leave us alone in the stables.

"What are you hiding, Erica?"

"I-" I sighed and mustered to courage to tell her. After I finished she gumming with anger.

"I'll kill him." She growls. The look on her face even scared the horse, Henry.

"Calm down, Elena. Please I'll do it just let me know what I need to do."

"Oh I have another plan." She whispers the plan in my ear and I go wide eyed and start shivering uncontrollably again.