𝖂𝖆𝖓𝖙 || 𝕶𝖎𝖒 𝕿𝖆𝖊𝖍𝖞𝖚𝖓𝖌

Chapter 12

"Sir you have a letter here for you"

We move our faces away from each other, we distanced ourselves, excusing myself I decided to take a walk along the hedges while Taehyung read through his letter. Walking along the hedges, I take in the beautiful features this garden has, It was like a whole different place in every section of the garden, the hedges, the flowers, the pond, the grass, the flowered vines you walk underneath, they all mesmerise me.

I look round as Taehyung is now out of view and I enjoy the chirping of the birds, the crunching of the gravel filling my ears. I smile as I watch a mother bird feed it's children. I turn a corner and go through the different hedges smiling, as I hear men chuckling in the close distance.

I turn my head as I hear the sound of gushing water from outside the beautiful green wall the hedges have made, it must be the end of the garden, I smile listening to the sound of the water. I think of memories of Wendy walking up to the brook with me and us falling in, laughing, the King and his men, with his three children who were around my age at the time finding us as they were on their horse walking down past the brook and spotted us. We just laughed even more, and when we went home our mothers gave off to us for coming home soaking wet, and telling us we could of caught our death.

My comforting memories are  interrupted when my senses focus on the rustling of the hedges. I look all around me but see nothing, I could feel the tension in the air change. I gasped, I felt a cold hand on my bare shoulder. Quickly I turn around, screaming, he's back.

My legs grew weak as the same man who threw himself on me in the tower with all the same scary features if not looking scarier was back and grinning smugly at me. Breathing out of his mouth like a dog. His grip on my shoulder getting tighter by the second, I struggle, moving about trying to get his filthy hands off of me. I hear Taehyung shouting for me. With my one free hand, with all my force I push him away, enough for his hand to slip off my shoulder.

Taking this opportunity, I pick up my dress at full speed and start running, trying to find my way out of all the hedges, which is harder than you think when you are under pressure, Taking the wrong turn could mean I run into 'him' again. I see the hedges start to clear up, my hope building up, but it slowly sinks down as, in the corner of my eye, I see 'him' running after me, close behind me. I see Taehyung looking around him, I scream his name to get his attention.

"TAEHYUNG!"

He quickly turns his head in my direction, running over to me, I run as far away as I can from the entrance to the hedges before I feel Taehyung's arms around my waist, I place my hands on is shoulders, hugging him, and crying into his chest for the second time. I look up at him, quickly darting my head back to the hedges every now and then.

"H-he....he's here"

I look back over at the hedges before grabbing Taehyung's hand and walking further away from it, into the centre, where we were before.

"Who, what did he do?!"

Taehyung was looking all around us, with me still in his arms, but I felt safe, so I wont pull away. Taehyung calls for guards while waiting on my answer.

"The man from the t-tower, in the h-hedges"

Taehyung nods as some guards run over, bowing as Taehyung sends them to search the area for the man. Taehyung walks me back into the palace,, and down into what looks like the main drawing room. The fire is lit and he sits me down carefully on the seat next to the fire. A maid walks in after knocking on the door, asking if there is anything needed.

"Bring me a cup of tea for the lady and some paper and ink"

Bowing, the maid closes the door. Taehyung puts one knee down and holds my shoulder.

"You need to tell me what he did to you out there ok?"

I look into Taehyung's eyes, before nodding my head.

"He held my shoulder, that's when I screamed, but he started holding it tighter, I pushed him and ran out but I saw him right behind me when I was running out, That's why I shouted for you"

I sighed, his face popping up when I close my eyes.

The door opens, the maid is back with a cup of tea and ink and paper. She leaves it on the  chest beside the door and walked out, closing the door. Taehyung walks over to the chest and poured me some tea before I could even get up. He walks over, handing it to me, before he sat down in his armchair opposite me, writing on the paper, he placed it down after folding it over. 

"The town has to know that there is still a rogue running round our area"

He says, he pulled the bell beside the fire, which calls a maid or butler. Soon the door opens, revealing the man from this morning. He walks in, bowing and walking over to Taehyung, who hands him the folded paper.

"Jaemin, meet Y/n, she is staying with us for a few days, Y/n, this is my right hand man, Jaemin, he runs the palace when I'm not there"

I smile and slightly bow to him, Jaemin does the same. He walks out closing the door behind him. But, it opens soon after, another maid announces that dinner is ready.

Taehyung helps me up, we lock arms and walk to the dining room. I sit beside him as we are given food.

After dinner, Taehyung walks me up to my room. H e stops me before I walk in.

"I really don't want to let you sleep in there by yourself after what happened today...."