Replace The Villain's Wife

44 : Case II

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"Wife, if I can't then you can't. If I can go, you can go."

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I quicky push the door to our room. How relieved I am when I see Alberth's doing fine. In fact, he seems to not know what's happening outside, I'm so glad.

"Welcome back, mommy." Alberth gives me his smile. I smile at him. Alberth has changed into his sleepwear. Lydia doesn't seem to be here already.

"You're not sleeping in your room?" I walk and sit beside him.

Alberth stands up and jumps to me. "No, I'm going to sleep here with you."

I giggle. For a moment, I forget everything that just happened. The door suddenly opens, looks like Karl is back. He always goes back to his desk and starts reading boring papers. I have to always stop him and tell him to go sleep if he doesn't want to look like a zombie the next morning.

"Come here." I immediately stop stroking Alberth's hair as soon as I heard Karl's voice. I gently put Alberth at the center and walk to Karl.

"For you." Karl gives me a white envelope with West Kingdom's stamp on it. I frown as I slowly rip the envelope.

Dear, Antania.

This is Steven. I was so happy to finally meet you at Princess Acasia's party. I also said that you're always welcome to come here anytime. But I guess I should ask you through this letter to come as soon as you can. There is a big problem in our kingdom right now, it's a bit hard to explain it here but I'll try. A group of people has been wandering around our castle and stole some of our kids. Now this is where it get a bit complicated, we succeeded in catching one of them and the people from your kingdom is the one who ordered them. Deep inside my heart, I believe that's not true. But in case something really happened between our kingdoms, I want you to come so we can have a conversation for this. Other than that, something has happened to Anya that I can't really talk about here in the letter. I'll be waiting for you.

Sincerely, your friend, Steven.

My heart is beating so fast, I'm afraid Karl can even hears it.

"Why does your heart beat so fast?" 

Yup, there it is. 

I look at Steven's letter once more. He has the same problem as ours. Is it the same person? But it's too far for that mask-man to travel here and there isn't it? I widen my eyes.

"Unless, he's a witch?"

"What witch?" I close my mouth. Damn, I accidentally spills it.

"Open your mouth." Karl looks at me straightly.

"What witch?" he asks again.

I give him Steven's letter so he can read it himself.

"I have to go." I say after Karl finished reading.

"But I can't go." Karl quickly responds.

I raise one of my eyebrow. "That's fine. I'm going to go myself."