Chapter 18: The Weird Happenings
The morning arrived and Annalise was ready to start another day as the wife of the three Dark Lords. Sera helped her in getting ready and once she was dressed in a simple yellow dress with minimum jewelry. Once she was ready, both of them headed downstairs.
"What’s wrong?" Annalise asked when she noticed the grim look on Aunt Claire’s face who was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs.
Unlike the previous day, the windows were mostly closed and the only light illuminating the insides of the castle was from the lanterns that were hanging around the walls of the castle.
"My Lady, you should come and see this." Aunt Claire stated in an urgent voice as she brought Annalise and Sera towards the main door and led them outside on the porch where Lord Kenric and Lord Valerius were also present along with Mr. Warren and Garron.
"What’s going on here?" She found herself asking while she nodded her head in acceptance of the greetings from Mr. Warren and Garron. She headed towards the two Dark Lords and followed the direction of their gazes and only then did she find out what was going on.
"Just what happened here? Another storm?" She asked no one in particular as she stared at the front lawn with a horrified look on her face.
Everything was a big mess, the statutes were once again back to their dirty and moss-covered states, and the benches that the guards fixed the previous day were once again broken, the grass had grown up several inches within the night, and the fountain appeared just like how she found it the night she first entered into the castle grounds.
At this point, she didn’t even need someone to answer her question. What she was looking at didn’t seem like the work of just a storm.
"It’s the castle." The person who spoke was none other than Lord Kenric who had finally turned his attention toward her.