Iris's legs felt lame, she sat on the bed with a drop. She used her eyes to scan around her, no one was looking. She stared into the note again, " who on earth sent this to me ? How did it get under my pillow ? ( She wandered in amazement staring at her pillow once more ) could it be that one out of these maids had sent this ( she asked her self, scanning through all the maids walking to and fro the large room )? Oh my God I am in for serious trouble. What is going to happen to me now ? This person must have slipped this under my pillows when I went to take my bath yesterday, because I didn't step out of this room yesterday, it must be one of these maids, but who ? "
Iris suddenly fell sick. She became cold. She gently laid on the bed. She closed her eyes, and all she could think of was Emmaline. It was a time when Iris had taught that she was going to move on, and be a different person entirely. Iris was bent on covering up her wrongs, and just start afresh on a fresh page, but she was proved wrong again. She couldn't stand up or even eat all through the morning, she just layed quietly on her bed.
There were hundreds of maids at the palace in Lucia, who could have sent her the note? She wondered in confusion. " That simply means someone was in that wood that day. Is this person going to torment me for life ? Oh Emmaline if you can hear me, kindly forgive me. Please forgive me! " Iris thought to herself sobbing quietly...
Arainna's eyes had swollen out of her depression and much crying the previous day, she opened her eyes. The morning sunlight radiated all over her. She was mute, she just stared into the thin air. She was sure prince Laim didn't come back into the room last night. Where did he possibly spend the night ? Arainna wondered silently. " Perhaps in his mistress's bossom. " She said with irritation, standing up from the bed. She sat down again, after a short while. She picked up her cell phone.
She dialed a number and it began to ring...
" Mom! How are you ? " Arainna called with gentility
" Arainna my dear child " her mother responded with a little sign of depression in her voice.
Arianna was silent.
" Is it still bad ? " Arianna asked breaking the silence.
" Oh ! your father's health has improved. " Her mother answered rather very delighted.
" But you didn't sound well at first " Arainna said
" I am just tired, I haven't rested well in weeks, I need to put my self altogether. " Her mother explained.
" That's okay. " Arianna answered sighing.
" The search parties on the look for your sister, returned yesterday, ( she became silent. Arainna impatient beckoned on her to continue ) but Arianna there was no sign of Brianna. They said there are high chances that she could be dead. I can't just seem to take that news to be true, it's so heart breaking " Arainna's mother said crying.
" What happens to me here ? " Arianna asked devastatingly.
" Arianna please just continue with the marriage, you know the consequences of backing out. " Her mother managed to say amidst tears.
" It is always about everyone, what about me? Do you people care to know how I am coping with all this pretence and lies? Do you people even try to imaginehow hard it is? The prince had made several attempt to sleep with me mom! It is harder than you can think, I don't even love this man, how can I be married to him forever? " Arainna bursted out. She was in great distress.
" Arianna my dear child, loves is a gradual thing, you'd come to love him. Please do not allow us loose everything, we have lost your sister, please save our kingdom. You have payed a sacrifice that is unrewardable. Please my dear child. " Her mother pleaded.
Arianna was pissed, she was silent for sometime, " Arainna are you there ? " Her mother asked.
Arainna ignored her mother's question, remembering Emmaline..." Emmaline has been confirmed dead "
" Was her body found ? " Her mother asked with a straight voice.
" No but her apron was found. " Arianna replied with a shaky voice.
" I have said countlessly that those maids are not to be trusted, she possibly could have ran away. " Her mother said without any sign of sympay.
" Mom Emmaline was a good maid, atleast the little that I knew of her, she was a good and faithful maid. ( Both Arainna and her mother was silent for a while, then Arianna remembered Iris. She thought of the pain that she was going to bear all the days of her life in St Lucia and decided to report her atlast. ) Mom I think there might be some one who knows about the sudden disappearance of Brianna "
" Who might that be Arainna, speak at once ! " Her mother spoke with agitation in her voice.
" It is Iris, Brianna's personal maid. Although no crystal evidence, but I am sure that if she is tortured, shed have something to say. "
" Then she must be arrested and sent down here as soon as possible ! "