Chương 3: Chapter 11 Drifted to sleep

((( Rhio POV's )))

Every weight that I though got discarded at the chapel suddenly sprung back. When the gates opened, the lonesome aura of the Mansion greeted me. I wanted peace but the silence inside that cage did the reverse of healing me. It killed me more instead.

The maids stood in array as they welcomed my arrival.

"I was told you left the hospital alone," Sya asked like a concerned mother who's about to beat her kid for getting home late. She must be worried, apparently because she might have known what I did to dad. The news must have spilled it all.

"Yes. I just wanted be alone for some time," Ironically, it was the least I wanted when I was a kid. I wanted playmates but now all I wanted was some isolation. "Did they get home?"

"Dr. Niel and Atty. Elthon?" she asked back as we ascended the stairs.

I nodded.

"I doubt they'd be coming home today. They must be busy with your father's passing." She looked me in the eye when we reached my room, ��All of us here like to express our sympathy for Master James."

I nodded again.

"Just wake me up once Elthon and Niel arrive."

Every step that I took felt heavy. I felt so lost once more, worsened by the deafening silence in my room. Sleep wouldn't come easily but I fought hard to close my eyes and wished for a ridiculous dream to take my reality just that day. Failing to do so, I remembered the flower in my pocket.

I sat up and watched it with interest and curiosity. Its petals has gradually lost its pure natural color and was tinged with streaks of brown. It's has begun to wither. But I suddenly remembered her smile and her crazy optimism.

I dialed Deo to ask for his service. A private one.

"There was this girl I want you to investigate. Get every details of her for me…Everything," I said while obsessing at the sight of the flower. "She usually goes at dusk to an old chapel beside an abandoned nunnery. Confirm with me first with her picture before delving in deeper."

"Aye sir," Deo responded with his youthful vigor. "All noted."

"And one last thing, Nobody must know about this," I added before I hung up.

"Good," I whispered as I let my body fall back to the huge bed. Enthusiasm sparked inside me again and I was able to close my eyes.

Slowly, I drifted to sleep.