Read Chapter 6 The Duke's Study - Little Lilly White

I turned to look at the man and found the lord covering his face with his hands and his shoulders shaking and behind him a man who seemed to be his aide has turned his face the other way and also his shoulders shaking

I felt my face turning red instantly and after sometime the man cleared his throat and looked at me

His aide was still removing tears from the corner of his eyes and smiling like a fool but his lord regained his composure and ordered his aide to help me to the seat

He raised me up and stared into my eyes "aren't you such a cute and small ball" he said while still raising my body in the air and although I had a very annoyed look on my face he still didn't care, on the contrary he was trying hard to hold his laughter

"Put her on the chair immediately , Rin" the lord said to his aide

Rin cleared his throat and said "yes, my lord" then proceeded to sit me on the chair

Soon after a maid came into the room holding a tray of snacks and banana milk juice, she set everything on the table infront of me and I felt my mouth watering and my stomach made noises

My face turned red and I heard the man saying "you can eat, if you don't it will go to waste" once he finished saying that I started eating everything infront of me and by the time i came to my senses there was only one biscuit left on the plate and crumbs around my mouth

I looked at it with sadness and looked at him then I took the last one and handed it to him

He looked surprised as if no one has ever tried to give him snacks but told me that he doesn't like sweets and that I can have it to myself

Somehow I wasn't convinced, it seemed as if he just didn't want to be the adult who takes a kid's candy

I looked at the cookie in my hand then at him

I held the cookie in both my hands and broke it into two halves then handed a half to him

He just kept staring and didn't eat it so I left it infront of him and took a paper and a pen that were laying on his desk infront of me and wrote "it's now half sweetened" then put the paper beside the cookie and proceeded to eat mine

He kept staring at the paper and the cookie for a long time until I finished mine then he cleared his throat and started talking

"Ehem,...I'm gonna ask you a few questions and you can answer me by writing" he said while handing me a pen and a paper

I took the pen and the paper and he proceeded to ask me a few questions

"How did you get to the mansion" that was his first question

I took hold of the pen and the paper and wrote "through the forest"

He looked at my answer then said "the forest is a dangerous place, how did you pass through it unscathed"

"I didn't meet any danger along my way" I wrote back

"Do you know how long you have been asleep" he proceeded to ask

"A day at most" I wrote

He looked at my answer for sometime then said something unexpected

"You have been asleep for ten days"

I looked at him in shock, never would have thought that such a long time passed, no wonder my throat was so dry and my body was very weak

"Well, that is unexpected" I wrote back to him

He looked at my answer then asked me another question "are you sure nothing happened in the forest"

I shook my head in denial and he asked another question

"And before it? Did anything happen" he looked me in the eyes as if searching for the truth

When he said that, my hands started to shake, I couldn't write anything

Tears started to fall down from my eyes and my whole body started to tremble

I tried to stop my tears but every tear I removed was placed with a flood of tears

I tried to say anything but words didn't come out

I started to scratch my throat and cry but no matter what I do my voice didn't come out

The lord panicked and he got up from his chair and walked over to me

"Hey!! Stop, it's okay I didn't mean to hurt you, just stop" he hugged my in his arms and started to pat me on the back and eventually I started to calm down

"I just have one more question" he held my head and looked me in the eye

"Do you know whose mansion this is" he asked me

I didn't need to think twice and immediately shook my head to indicate that I didn't know.

He seemed surprised but he believed me then said

"Allow me to introduce myself then, I'm luke de white, the duke, have you heard of my name"

I looked at him in surprise from his looks and his wealth and finally his demeanor he seemed like a noble but I never thought he would be a duke

"I'm just three years old" I wrote to him and he seemed confused about what I mean so I continued "why would a three years old care about an outside world" there is no three years old who would actually care about anything outside family, friends, food and games

Anything other than that is out of question for them, at some part of life I used to be a nanny in a kindergarten and kids at that age were very simple and honest

It makes me wonder how they change so much once they grow up and everything becomes very complicated with them

When he saw what I wrote he looked at my answer for a long time

"Right" he murmured that then got up from his chair and said while leaving

" I will tell Rin to escort you back to your room, we can talk more when you're feeling better" I ran after him and held the him of his coat and he turned back but just kept staring at the hand that held his clothes and nothing else

I thought he was angry because I held onto his clothes so I immediately let go of it but his eyes seemed to have a sense of loss when I did that

I held a paper up to him that had "I want to leave now" written on it

He took the paper from me and looked at me then said "you were already lucky once that you passed through this forest unscathed and you're in my territory, I don't want people saying that an evil duke threw a three years old child in the forest and now it's in heaven" he said then picked me up and handed me to Rin "escort her to her room"

I looked at his fading back in bewilderment

What does he mean I won't be leaving now?? If I don't leave now then when should I leave? And why should I stay here?

Will he torture me? Does he like the meat of the kids or even worse, is he a pedophile???

I'm not gonna think anymore, I will leave here in a way or another

And with that resolution I was dragged back to my gorgeous and luxurious cell.

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That night I decided to escape but I couldn't reach the door knob so I dragged a chair and decided to climb on it but it wall a tall chair

I brought two pillows and put them in front of the chair then stood above them then on the chair and finally reached the door knob

I turned it and the door opened successfully so I smiled in victory and proceeded to get down the chair in the same way that I got above it but I kicked the pillows by mistake so I held on to chair and stayed like that hung in the air holding for dear life for some time trying to get down safely and finally succeeded

When I finally got down I was so proud of myself, if James Pond saw me, he would be jealous of me

I walked carefully to the door and walked through it and looked at the hall and no one was there

I sighed in relief and turned around to close the door but what I saw almost gave me a heartattack and killed me at just the age of three

When I turned around there were two people dressed in black and even their hair and eye pupils were black

I looked at them in silence and they looked back at me

"I....I wanted to go to the bathroom" I wrote to them

"You have a bathroom attached to your room young miss" one of them replied back

I felt so stupid, of course I had a bathroom attached to my one hell of a massive room

I looked to the ground and raised another sign "I was lying" they looked at me as if they knew but soon changed their expressions "I'm scared, I want the duke" I looked up once again and faked some tears in my eyes for some credibility

They looked surprised at first and looked at each other

They seemed really touched, as expected of my weapon of cuteness, they can't resist

They both bended to their knees to talk to me in a more comfortable way "the duke is working right now but I'm sure he would want to see you, should I take you to his highness?"

I nodded my head to him and he held me in his arms and took me to where the duke was.

While we were on our way to the duke I wrote to the guard "what is your name sir?" He looked at me and smiled, and even though both guards wore black masks that hid half their features, I still could tell from their eyes what their emotions are and if they are smiling or not

"I'm Alex ,young miss" he said with a smile so I wrote another sign, If i wanted the guards to let their guards down I gotta get closer to them "can I call you Al?" I asked with the cute eyes of a little puppy asking for affection and although it was a little humiliating but it was a necessary weapon for the survival of the children

The guard stood his ground once he read what I wrote and looked surprised

At first I thought he got angry but soon threw this idea out the window, of course he didn't hate it, on the other hand he seemed more happy and touched and I could see his red cheeks

He looked at my eyes then looked at the ground but soon raised his eyes looking everywhere but at me and said "mmm...."

That was all he said but I could see that this was the sincerest answer I could ever get out of him, is he not used to people trying to get closer to him or is he just shy?

After that we kept walking in silence and soon arrived in front of the duke's study that I visited this morning

What the hell!! He is still working till now, does he ever rest? Or is he the type person who thinks 'work before everything'

While I was caught up in my thoughts I didn't notice that the hands that were holding me changed from Alex to another man and kept on imagining the duke and his life

After some time I reached the conclusion that 'he is in love with work!!' And in the excitement of the moment the I banged the desk hard with my hand then winced in pain and held my hand to my chest not noticing that I was so loud and even though everything was quiet to begin with but after my actions it was so quiet that you could hear the faraway deserts

I raised my eyes and started to look around me and noticed that I was inside the study already "huk!...." I was so surprised that I almost dropped my heart and could hear it's beats so loudly in this quiet room

I slowly started to look behind me to see the duke right behind me. No wait, it's not behind me. I'm literally sitting on his thigh

I looked at his thigh and back at his face then repeated that a few more times and started to fidget and tried to get down but once I started to get down from his thighs I felt strong and firm hands hold me around my waist and hold me in place

In my shock that something held me around my waist I held onto his hand that held me.

I kept looking at my hand on top of his and noticed how small my hand is compared to how big is his, if anyone saw both our hands like this will think that we are a father and daughter duo

I knew I didn't need a father be it in my past life or this life but I couldn't help but feel my heart flutter

I touched one of his fingers with my fingers and started to trace the many scars that he had on his hands

Although he is a noble and a rich man and a hero on the battle field, all that wasn't easy to gain and the proof is all the little scars on his callused hand

I started to touch each and every scar gently and holding his fingers as if it was a toy, his hands were very big and his fingers were long and pretty as well, I started to hold a finger then let go and hold it once again

I looked back and my eyes met his. I was so surprised that I had hiccups

His eyes were very sharp but somehow it wasn't scary on the contrary it looked more gentle than usual

"Why is a kid like you not sleeping right now and is instead playing around in other people's studies" the duke was the first to break the silence

I felt offended because it felt like he was kicking me out and puffed my cheeks to show my dissatisfaction

He smiled when I did that as if he was entertained then said "did you mis.." before he could finish his words I wrote " I was just bored and found out that there is only one person that I know in this whole mansion so I came"

When he read my words his usually cold and calm expressionless expression became cold and disappointed expressionless expression, he seemed somehow disappointed and although his expression remained the same it was felt just from the atmosphere around him that seemed to drop

"What is this place and what do you want from me?" I decided to change the topic to change the atmosphere and also wanted to find out about this place, people here didn't stop me from going out, they didn't lock me in a room and they gave me food and beautiful and comfortable clothes, they even brought me a doctor but i know very well this can't be free and that this wouldn't happen if this man infront of me didn't allow it so I had to find out of him, what does he want from me.

End of chapter six

Chapter 6 The Duke's Study

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