Anna stood by the window just staring at nothing in particular lost in her thoughts.
She still couldn't believe what she had walked into. Was Vivianne working with Nicholas, was he their man?
She did not know why but she had this feeling that he couldn't be the one.
First Roland and now her gut was also giving out the vibe that he couldn't be the one.
Roland had bluffed all through their conversation although she felt there was a still some truth in what he said.
He had said she should look for someone with a bigger motive than his. A motive that warrant death as a satisfaction.
Even Roland knew death was coming for William. She would look at the grounds again tomorrow and then the stables. She had been idle this few days.
Richard stared hard at Vivianne, she wasn't sex starved, he noticed. She was having it from someone now, he had to be careful with this woman. He kept on having the feeling that he had picked on the wrong woman.
Vivianne stared at Richard smiling, a lot on her mind. She now brought Nicholas into her chambers.
"My love," she said touching Richard cheek, caressing it gently down to his lips, "you left me without anything, no message on when you are going to visit my chamber. You know I miss you quickly."
Richard looked at her blankly allowing her do as she pleases, she did not stop her when she took his lips biting and teasing. He knew he had to be sweet to win her back, not just sweet he had to please her greatly.. more than he had dond In the past.
"Let me show you how sorry I am instead of telling you my pumpkin," he pulled her closely taking her lips roughly. 'The woman behaved like an animal,' he thought and needed to be treated as such even loved like one
Vivianne moan loudly in pleasure, when he bit her lips so hard drawing blood.
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The weather was gloomy when Hannah went out, it seemed like it was about to rain. Everyone assumed the last rain which fell was the last rain of the year but it turns out they were wrong.
'Why do people think they could predict nature,' Anna wondered walking briskly to the ground were the games were usually held. She hoped she finished before it began to rain.
She looked grimly at the end line for the race. Before the end line, a little mile backwards was an obstruction. It was not really a dangerous piece but could be dangerous for the right purpose.
There were areas that were bare—without sharp irons—but overall it resembled a mouth that opened and closed with teeth protruding in the shape of sharp irons.
She proceeded furtther backwards attempting to determine where William had been flung by his horse, Gandalf.
What had the horse seen?
'What had frightened it?' she wondered. Whosoever had planned this, she knew he had taken time to study this ground and knew exactly where the horse was supposed to throw William for him to land right in the mouth of the obstruction.
She walked back to the obstruction, trying to lift one sided up when she felt a sharp pain.
"Ouch," she yelled. The damn thing was very sharp. She quickly put her hands into her mouth trying to stop the bleeding.
Now she understood why William had been so terrified he had lost his legs. This thing was capable of pulling someone legs out.
If these teeth had touched him, his legs would have been completely destroyed.
She stood still looking round as the first rain drop touched her, and then another and then it began to drizzle gently but she knew in a minute or so the rain was really going to fall.
Walking back to the castle, she saw something hidden in the sand. looking clearly at it she discovered it was a dead branch.
Then it came to her as quickly as the rain began to pour heavily.
'What if something was hidden in the Sand to frighten the horse; a snake,' she thought.
Why hadn't she thought of this sooner? The parts were gradually falling into place. 'That was it,' Anna mentally decided.
She needed to see Gandalf and also see the person who took care of him.
She had known the horse when she lived in the castle with her father before being sent away to live with her aunt, her mother's dear friend.
'The horse was loyal to William,' Anna thought, even if it was hostile to others.
William had won it's heart with his calm and loving nature, the calm demeanor he had used in winning her own heart.
He never really did much for one to fall. Would she ever fall in love with someone else? She found her self wondering each passing day.
Would she ever let someone claim her heart or was she going to keep on waiting for William.
If there was anything she had found out this few days, it was that she was not prepared to lose him.
She had given him her heart and he had choose to ignore it and even hurt her times without number. But she loved him still.
'Focus on your investigation, Anna.'
She heard a voice loud and clear in her head, when had she ever mixed pleasure with work.
William was bringing out a woman she had long tamed and long groomed into the woman she was sure her father was proud of, 'papa would be rolling in his grave,' Anna thought.
She got in and took off her damp clothes, changing into dried clothes.
She went into the office, she had important things to write down.
Opening the door, she discovered William was there in the office; at his normal spot staring through the window, obviously filled with regret.
She felt pity for him, felt his pain. The silence was suffocating already, since the incident she had witnessed they had not spoken and even when William had asked to speak with her she had bluntly refused. He did not deserve her.
'Says the woman pining for his love,' that tiny whisper in her head said again.