"The less you reveal the more people can wonder. "
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They arrived in the area where the rooms are meant for guess, each of them dropped off the bags in their designated rooms.
Sebastien who is carrying the luggage of the girl who is rumored "bride" by the others.
Sebastien is still wondering when it all happen? He never seen any of those ladies around before. If the master is really having that girl as his bride then why didn't the master see her more often like Klee and Jeanne?
Klee and Jeanne are his friends and Sebastien knew they are lovers. He is quiet curious back then with what does a lover mean so he ended up talking to Klee about it.
He said words Sebastien didn't understand very well. For example you'd like to be with that person always, you'd want to touch them and kiss them.
So He is still wondering if Master and that girl is really "Lovers"
The master call girls every 2 months and all of them are always being rumored the soon to be bride or the lover of the master but each quarter girls he called are different ones. There's never a chance he'd seen that certain woman's face twice after three days of staying in.
He sigh deeply then carefully placed the luggages beside the bed.
It is the "typical" room but still elegant. It has a queen sized bed, not much furniture just Vanity table with a mirror, Closet and Lamp shade.
It's floor is carpeted and the curtains are linen. Every room in this mansion is filled with Big windows that almost big enough to fit two wooden doors.
After his work on the room he proceed to his daily chores as everyone does. Past 2 pm he marched to the library as he always does. It is time for his daily lessons.
It is just simple education such as teaching him how to read.
Basic math and Ethics.
The hall is still busy and lively even though it is already 2 hours passed since lunch. Maybe it is because the master is having visitors?
At the end of the hall is a wooden double door. It is the place he always go to after his chores. He spend almost 3 hours here everyday.
Sebastien knocked three times before entering inside. He didn't wait for the other person to answer.
"Good afternoon young man, I will be the one who'll teach you today. I am Sir Quirino. " Sebastien stare at him for a second before bowing his head as a sign of respect.
"I am Sebastien, I am one of the butler of this house. Please take care of me. " Sebastien isn't surprised to see a new face as his teacher. Every now and then the person who teaches him just get randomly changed.
For some reason the new old man who is teaching him right now is a little different. He is smiling gently and good at teaching him but something about him is weird.
After an hour of sitting on the chair next to the old man, Sebastien secretly took a glance. The man is around his sixties, he is wearing a thick glasses that covered his eyes further more he have a mustache and a beared. It has traces of grey and black hair.
The man noticed his gaze and turned to look at him.
"I don't understand why the master is spending fortunes for a single person like this but you are easy to teach huh." he is slightly smiling but His words are the opposite of how he looks. Sebastien didn't quiet like what he said but he answered.
"Pardon my rudeness but I don't think it concerns you Mister. " The old man chuckled then his voice got serious.
"I didn't think a lowly slave like you deserve something like this. Isn't this just a waste of time? " Sebastien lowered his head. The other teachers are like this to him too. This is not new to him but this old man is the only teacher who upright told him that he is just a waste of time and money.
The old man slammed his hand on the table and grab the text book in his hand.
"I know you. I knew your mother and Father who sold you off." With his voice was hinted with anger and mocking. Sebastien looked at him with a shocked look as he remembered the man.
He is the man who is always in their house back then!
Sebastien trembled and his lips tucked tight. He didn't know what to do.
He want to run away but his feet are glued on the ground and his body stilled.
"I never knew I'd seen you, filthy brat again. " he walked behind Sebastien's seat and circled his arm on Sebastien's shoulder. With that, Sebastien collected all the courage he hand and smacked his hand before running outside the library.
All the maid's and servant walked past him shot him suspicious look.
He can't believe that old guy found him!
That guy is a part of his past that he doesn't want to remember. That old man nearly raped him back then!
Sebastien hid inside his room under his blankets while trembling. He touched the scar on his neck. The tears on his eyes can't help but form even though he is trying so hard not to cry.
Sebastien didn't realize he fell asleep and completely forgot his night chores and his dinner, he even forgot to take the pills that Mister Lucien told him to take every night . Good thing the head butler didn't call for him.
He looked at the clock beside his bed and realized it is almost midnight.
Sebastien can't help but be drawn on the fullmoon that is peeking on his window as the white curtain flew freely. At this time surely all the servants and butlers have gone on their homes.
For some reason the head butler Lucien and Riley are the only ones who don't go home when the sun goes down. Yes, they make every single person of the mansion go home immediately after sundown. And even if Sebastien lives here with them. He is never allowed to go out of his room when its sundown too.
This mansion is very strict when it comes to rules and regulation.
He is clueless why he needed to take those pills but he is strictly forbidden to forget them. He never forgets though? Until today.
He ran for his drawer to take it out and was about to take it but,
"Aaaaah! " a loud scream of a woman echoed across the whole mansion.
That startled Sebastien, it made him nervous.
He decided not to interfere and not mind it but it was followed by another scream calling for help. There is also loud noises of things being broken.
He gulped, there seems to be something stuck in his throat. His hands are trembling as he reached the door knob of his room.
The screaming stopped, it was only followed by silence.
He slowly opened the door. The cold breeze of the wind welcomed him in the hall way. He is only wearing a white thin dress shirt and a khaki pants that made his body really exposed to cold wind.
He walk the straight corridor but a few steps away from the hallway across the forbidden side of the mansion he caught a whiff of a smell that sent shivers down his spine.
It is a smell of iron, rust and a strong unfamiliar odor he never smelled before except back in the poultry few minutes outside the mansion.
Blood.
He heard panting but the scent and sound where those came from are in a dark hallway. It doesn't have any lights furthermore the air around the dark corridor is very cold. Only the light from the moon across the window is the only thing that shed light.
Despite all the horrifying things that he can encounter when he walked that dark path he still didn't budge and let his feet dragged him in that dark corridor like he is drunk.
Sebastien's eyes is filled with mist. It looks like he is drugged but he is not. What he felt when his own feet dragged him closer is a sense of danger and longing he didn't understand.
As he got closer, the scent of blood is growing stronger.
Sebastien's feet and hands are both cold. Maybe because he is bare footed and the marbled floor is Cold? But everything in here is cold.
"Hello? Is anyone there? " his voice is slightly cracked and small.
He took a few steps more until his feet stepped on something sticky and wet.
It is warm but it made all the hair in his body stand.
With the help of the moonlight. He saw red.
Everything is red. The hall way has its walls painted red. The floor is covered in scarlet red!
His body froze for a second.
Before he could even react, he heard a laughing voice a few steps away from him.
"These bitch try to plot to kill me? " Sebastien panted, he almost hyperventilated at what his eyes are seeing.
The other person's voice is deep and husky but his laugh... Anyone would find it sexy until he laughed maniacally.
"What is this..." He took steps behind until he hit a wall.
A few seconds then, he heard foot steps. It's pace is very calm and collected.
As it's steps noise grow louder, Sebastien's Heart seems to be in synced with it.
Sebastien's vision was blurred and it is very dark but the figure that stops in front of the window... He was sure it is a very gorgeous man.
And that man's hand is holding an huge organ.
It is beating until it was crushed between his fingers.
"Some naughty puppy got lost?"
In a swift second that man is holding Sebastien's neck with the same hand that crushes the beating heart earlier.
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