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Chapter 5 - 3 - Obedience

The door to Blake's room opens and out he comes properly dressed in his uniform and notices 2 rows of maids standing on each side of the corridor with their heads tilted down slightly.

He walks out looking at them and when he turned around he walked straight into something or perhaps.. someone.

"Ah!" he yelps out "ow… my nose!" he says covering his face

his gaze shifts up to see what he had ran into

his pupils constricted in shock seeing that it was none other than Luis who he ran into.

"Mr. Alden! I'm sorry I didn't mean to-" before Blake can finish his words he was suddenly lifted off the ground and pinned to one of the corridor walls.

Blake gasps for air and trying to pull off Luis's hand that was wrapping around his throat

"do you not have eyes?" luis growled "I-I didn't mean to Mr. Alden-"

"THAT'S MASTER ALDEN FOR YOU" roared Luis, his voice shaking the mansion as everything falls silent,

"See me in my room." says Luis as he loosens his grip and drops Blake to the floor coughing and gasping for his breath

Luis walks over Blake through the corridor into his room with its doors slamming behind him.

The slam echoes for a moment..

Then, a middle aged maid helps Blake gets up on his feet "you're lucky he didn't kill you boy." she says to him

"What the hell is his deal!" Blake slapped the maid's hand away in frustration.

"He asked for you, don't keep the master waiting." says the maid as she dusts him off.

Blake grumbles to himself as he makes his way down the corridor rubbing the red marks around his throat until he reaches those familiar black doors

Blake sighs and knocks on the doors "May i come in" he pauses for a bit and sighs once more "master?"

A few second of silence passes.

"Come in." Luis replies through the door

Blake cracks one of the doors open hiding behind it and peeking inside to see Luis sitting in his chair with his hands clasped together.

"Come inside." Luis says in a cold commanding tone

Blake gulps and comes inside the room closing the door behind him and makes his way to Luis standing in front of the man with his face tilted down from fear.

"Do you know how I deal with disobedience here?" says Luis while standing up

He opens a drawer grabbing something that glimmers slightly from the dim chandelier above his desk.

"I don't let disobedience go by unpunished." Luis says walking to Blake holding what Blake now sees is a black dagger embedded with the letter L.A.

Blake trembles as Luis walks behind him fearing of what his fate might become

Luis grabs Blake's face gripping it firmly causing Blake to wince from the pain.

"I should really cut your throat out for talking back." Luis whispered into Blake's ears pushing the tip of the dagger into Blake's neck hard enough to draw blood.

Blake heaves and trembles from how scared he has become he really thought that he would've been killed in that moment.

Luis pulls the dagger away from Blake releasing the grip from his servant's face he makes his way back to the desk and sits down.

"Do not let this happen again." says Luis shooting a glare towards Blake.

Blake regains what little composure he has left and utters out "Yes master.."

Luis sits back in his chair "you may leave." he says with a glare still fixated at Blake

Blake gives Luis a bow then walks out of Luis's room with his hands shaking and the blood from his neck staining his white uniform.

When the doors finally closes his knees become weak and he drops down trembling

He now questions himself if he can really survive in here.