Margret was at the front of her house pulling out some weeds that were growing with the flowers that she had planted since the surrounding was a little bit dull , paused when she heard the sound of a carriage which came to a halt at the front gate of her house, wondering who the person could be that felt it was right to park their carriage there. she put down the garden scissor and removed are hand gloves then she charged towards the carriage.
The door of the carriage open and Bruce got down followed by Aure who was sluggish with her movements.
Margret's slowed down her walking step when see caught sight of her niece who's eyes appear puff which indicated that she had been crying for a long time."Aure dear what are you doing here and where is your mother " she said with a sweet voice, as she pulled the little girl to her side and looked at the young woman who brought her niece here .
"good day Mrs Felicon, my name is Bruce a close friend of her mother" she pointed in the direction were Aure stood.
margret pushed her bossom forward "did Harriet ask you to bring her here" not like the way the young woman was portraying her self.
Bruce was not bothered with what she did as it was common for women to sometimes feel insecure about their looks."its unfortunate that you haven't heard what happened, the town she lived in was attacked two days ago, and she was kill in the proces-"
"i knew it, karma has finally caught up to her "
she said as if waiting for such a bad thing to befall Harriet ."after murdering her husband and pretending to be a white lotus ".
Bruce was quite for a few seconds, even if she had no ideal what Harriet relationship with her in-laws were like, wasn't it too much to rejoice about someone death let alone someone you knew."well the town has been burnt down along with the people that was attacked". she did not bother to go into the full details. "and since you're the only family member I know off, I brought Aure ".
"how come she was with you when the town was being attacked?".
"she was at my house, as she was on visit "
it was the next day that she had heard what had happened, she could not believe what she heard, the first thought that came to her mind was how she was going to break the news to the little girl that her mother was no more, so eventually when she told the girl , she cried her eyes out and slept.
she tried to convince her husband to let the girl live with them, but he immediately discharged the ideal, saying that they weren't running a charity home.
"i see, so now that you brought her here you may leave as you can see she's in good hands " she rudely said.
Bruce walked towards where the girl stood, bent down and smoothen her hair "Aure I will be on by way now okay, don't worry you aunty here will take good care of you ." she kissed her head and turned to look at the woman "i will be coming regularly to check on her" .
Aure stood by and watch the carriage leave and then it was really sinking in that she was all alone in the world and the more she thought about it her eyes became moist.
when Walter came back home, he saw his wife seated out side.As he walked to where she was to give her a hug she slightly pushed he away
"what is it, why are you giving me cold shoulders"
" we have a problem Walter, Aureha is here"
Walter give her a questioning look "was she doing here don't tell me Harriet is here also too" as he was not too fund of the mother daughter pair.
"you don't have to worry about Harriet since she's dead the problem is how are we going to get rid of the small one"
"dead how?"he sounded quit alarmed
" she was among the people that died in the attack" she then continued "a friend of hers dropped Aure here."
"you mean Elitovert ". since the news have been circulating around for the past two days now, but he did not presume it to be true."where's she now " as he made his way to the front door to see the girl.
As both of them entered the house they saw Aure seated on the wooden floor with a life less look on her face. Aure looked up to see her uncle and aunt who came in but didn't make an attempt to greet them.
" seems like her respect died with her mother also " Walter whispered to his wife to only receive a glare from her. Margret walked pasted her husband, and want across the room to take a seat and Walter followed suit.
"what are we going to do with her"Margret said as she stared at Aure that was seated at the corner of the room. they could not afford to add one more burden to their lives as it was already hard enough for them to survive.
"we could send her back to the person who brought here ,after all the person is a friend of her late mother " he responded.
" have thought of that, if she could take care of her she won't have brought her in the first place".
suddenly and idea popped up in his head "i think I know a way we could put her to good use" his eyes shimmered in evil.