The Demon's Bride

Little Distraction

As they passed by the hallway, Elise felt eyes of other maids staring at her with a meaningful gaze and whispered over themselves. Vella frowned at the sight of the foolish maid who aren't doing their work and Carmen crossed her arm. "This must be because of yesterday."

Yesterday? Elise asked herself and found the answer soon enough. It was the time when she had dinner with the Lord. The other maids were jealous that she was being specialized by the Lord. As a servant, the opportunity to eat with the master of the mansion especially with the Lord is something almost close to impossible. But yesterday, Lord Ian had specifically ate with the new maid, a human maid. The jealousy over the servants were normal in the eyes of their view.

"They must be jealous because you ate with the lord." Carmen spoke again, her eyes glaring at the maids who kept on discussing nonsense. Ian had a charming face and for him to have admirers from both humans or mythical beings from different statuses was an everyday occurrence. However as the Lord was cold and rarely talk to any maids other than his personal butler Maroon, once he had a dinner with Elise, everyone who had hidden their intention to seduce the lord felt envious of her.

"That was only because Master Ian is a kind person." Elise replied.

Vella rolled her eyes. "If the Lord is that kind, he would have eaten with all the maids in the mansion but he didn't, he only did it with you and that's why they're envious of you now."

Does that mean she is a special case? That made her time eating with the Lord even more special but she their relationship wasn't like what the maids were envious of. She's a maid and he's a Lord.

"Even though it's only a dinner alone with the Lord, they're jealous for nothing. Truly, jealousy is something frightening." Carmen commented.

Elise agreed with her thought. Jealousy is truly something frightening.

"Then, we'll go now. See ya later, Elise" Carmen spoke with a bright tone and brought Vella to the East Wing of the mansion. On the other hand, Elise was quite at lost to what she should do. She went to the Lord's office as what Maroon ordered her to do and ascended the second floor. When she finally arrived, Elise noticed the same patterns of moon stars and other patterns carved to the ceiling. She wondered to herself what does the patterns in the ceiling symbolized? It looked simple but had a meaning on its own, Elise thought.

She continued her steps to come at a stop at Ian's office and knocked on the wooden door twice. Ian's deep voice resonated from the other side of the wall. "Who is it?"

Elise cleared her throat lightly. "It's me Master Ian, Elise."

Ian put down the fountain pen from his hand and a grin appeared again to the corner of his lips. "Come in."

Following his words, Elise turned the knob and pushed the door open to see Cynthia and Austin sitting at the couch in front the Lord's desk. The room was as dimmed as she expected and even though the Sun was still smiling outside to kindle its light with the ground bellow, the room was dark with a few candle lit up.

Cynthia and Austin stood up happily when she saw Elise. "Elise!" They called.

"Cy, Austin!" Elise returned with the same delight and broke to a wide smile.

Austin had his eyes looking at the black uniform that she wore and nodded in approval. "That Uniform sure look good at you, Elise. As expected of the most beautiful lady in the town. Whatever you were, it looks good at you." He praised like how a father do to his beloved daughter.

"I agree for the first time with you." Cynthia added.

Elise rubbed her cheeks lightly with shyness. "That's an over praise, thank you Cy, Austin."