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His face falls, then, into a dark expression. “Leave the horse,” he says, grabbing Fay by the arm. She drops the reins in shock,her face going pale.
“Wait, what happened?” she asks, confused as he pulls her out ofthe stall. “I can’t leave Heathcliff like this —”
“The grooms will handle it,” Kent growls, pulling her towards the front of the stables, snapping at a groom as they pass andpointing back towards Heathcliff's stall. The groom instantly understands, heading towards the back.
“Kent!” Fay says, still shocked. “What’s happening?!”
But he doesn’t answer as he hauls her to the car, dropping her arm and climbing into the driver’s seat, slamming the door behindhim.
Kent doesn’t say a word to me the entire ride home.I
| twist my hands in my lap, looking over at him a few times, noting that his face is growing increasingly angry with every passingmile. | shrink back in my seat, wondering what the hell | said — what | could have done wrong —
| trace his anger back — when had it started? | guess when | mentioned my cousins, the conversation about Fiona —But that’s just a coincidence — it has to be — there’s absolutely no
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way that Kent wouldn’t have thoroughly background checked
every person he lets into his life-
If he didn’t know....
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| worry about it the whole way home, but I’m too scared to say anything. What would it do, anyway?
After we pull into the garage, Kent quickly climbs out of the car and slams his door, not saying a word to me as he storms into thehouse, past one of the guards that came to the door to greet us and report. The guard — Jerome, | see stares after Kent in shock.and then turns to me with a curious expression.
| just shrug and shake my head as | climb out of the door, letting him know that | have no idea.
| see that Kent has left chaos in his wake on the way to his office, people standing in the hallway staring after him with worriedexpressions. As | walk slowly into the house, | see Daniel come down the stairs. He catches my eye.
“What happened?” he whispers, looking concerned, but before | can answer Kent comes out of his office again, fury in his everyline.
“You two,” he demands. “Upstairs.”
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“| said upstairs!” Kent yells, and Daniel and | both jump. | scurry to where Daniel is standing on the stairs, grabbing his arm andpulling him up with me.
“Seriously, what's going on?” Daniel whispers to me as he follows.“| don’t know,” | whisper back, pulling him towards my room. Hecomes in with me and | shut the door behind us. But even the doorcan’t block out Kent's next bellow.
“Fiona! Get down here! Now!”
Daniel stays in my room with me for a while. He won’t admit it
as readily as | do, but we’re both scared to leave. We watch old movies, surviving on bottled water and some gummy bears thatDaniel had stored away in his room.
Eventually, though, he has to go to his night class. He apologizes as he goes, looking back at sorrowfully as he leaves. | think heknows that I'd pay anything to be go with him right now.
| wait for a little bit, my eyes on the door to see if Fiona will come. Hardly a night passes when she doesn’t stop by my room tosay goodnight, at the very least.
But there’s no sign of her.
Acouple of hours pass with no word from anyone and my stomach starts to growl so hard | can’t stand it. | haven’t eatenanything real since my blueberry muffin that morning, and I’mnovelbin
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Hesitant, | peek out my door. The whole house is silent, no guardsor servants anywhere. Curious, | step out into the hall further,looking around. Still, no one.
| creep down the stairs, walking as softly as | can, but still, |
encounter no one. Anxious, | hurry towards the kitchen, hoping there’s something easy to grab.
When | push open the door, though,the kitchen too is empty. | step intothe room, marvelinaxrfedershavingskeilit quité so silent. My stomachgrowls loudly then, prompting meforward. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
| scurry over to the giant industrialfridge, pulling it open. Seeing that it’swell stocked with food barat beanpate fromthe dish rack and start tofill it up. French bread, cheese, someprosciutto and fruit — | smile at myhaul, excited. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
As | close the fridge, though, | hear a noise.
It's a groan — thick with misery, butso quiet that I’d never have heard it ifthe house itself ha ‘bperas Silentas.the grave. V fo V ry still, my eyesdarting immediately to the smallwhite door that leads down into thebasement, waiting to see if it comesagain. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
| almost leap out of my slippers at the next sound, though—a heady shriek that turns into a horrible, horrible scream.Reacting on instinct, | run for the door to the kitchen, almostChapter 77
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dropping my plate of food as | push through it and dash down thehall. | press the food against my chest as I run up the steps, notcaring if | stain my sweater, heading right for my room.
I'm panting as | slam my door shut, pressing my back against it.What the hell was that?
Or more importantly, who?
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