The Last Novel

CHAPTER 9

It was already midnight, the mansion is so quiet, everyone is asleep except for a little girl who's now cautiously walking down the stairs to prevent the other from waking up.

With intense gaze she scanned the first floor of the mansion, there's nothing suspicious there. With light footsteps, she descended down the stairs without a sound. When her eyes glance at the bottom of the door, she quickly dashed towards it when she felt something. The moment she opened it, she saw a man standing with tobacco on his mouth.

"Hello there little SCARLET, I expect that you still haven't forgotten your real master." He said with a grin.

"I-Yes, let's talk outside m-master" Scarlet said with a pounding heart.

"Why outside? We can talk while sitting on those chairs inside." Scarlet flinch at his suggestion.

"No! I-"

*SLAP*

The impact of the slap the man had given to Scarlet made her mouth bled, the fragile little girl's face turned immediately red. She fell down on the floor, after a few seconds she spit out the blood in her mouth together with her tooth.

Scarlet felt the pain but she quickly dismisses it, she needs to get these men out of the house. She needs to distract them.

"How dare you say no to me, you piece of shit. This was your idea in the first place. I agreed because I like beating you up to go with your plan. So how rich was that beautiful baroness? I heard about your great acting while living here." The man looked at Scarlet with menacing eyes "You can't possibly expect a bastard orphan like you to have a family, you belong to me." After saying that he grab her hair and pulled it closer to him.

"You belong to me, only me, got it!?" Scarlet nodded unwillingly.

"My lord, there are many antiques inside the Baroness' attic." One of the men said on his back.

"H-how did you know that?" Scarlet asked with a frightened face.

"How else? We've been infiltrating this rundown mansion for a week now."

The man said while yawning as if he's bored. He was the noble who beat up Scarlet that day when Blaine and Arabella were at the restaurant.

"Now, Max let's go and meet my Baroness." These words that Scarlet heard made her slap the man's hand that's still pulling her hair.

"We can just take their stuff and go, you don't have to waste your time with those people." She said with trembling hands.

"Oh my, looks like our little max has grown fond of that Baroness. How dare you! You filthy orphan!" Scarlet quickly crossed her arms to protect her head from the hands of the nobleman known as Lord Wen. But, before his hand hit her she heard a glass just broke.

Scarlet quickly opened her eyes and saw the bleeding forehead of the man who was about to strike her earlier.

"Get away from her!"

After she heard that someone grabbed her body away from the man.

"Y-you, why are you here? Go back to the Baroness! Run away from here!" she screamed at him with panic visible in her eyes.

"I can't do that, even though you're the cause of this, you can't possibly hope that they'll let you live after taking our stuff and kidnapping my mother, do you?" Blaine said while glaring at the man in front of him. Scarlet was shocked when she heard him.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA this kid is amusing and smart, if you were my son I'll be so proud of you." With bleeding forehead the man appeared to be more ferocious than he was before, he now looks like a monster that will soon kill them with his bare hands.