Chapter 96
In the middle of the night, sitting on a concrete fence, Michelle swung her legs carelessly while Ivona paced around the top of the wall anxiously. "Where are they? You said they would come here at midnight. The moon’s already high up, so where are they?" she glared at Michelle, but she just smiled and leaned back a bit.
"They were here from the start..." Michelle finally spoke, her voice a soft hum, carried through the space by the wind, as she lifted her arm and pointed to one of the small buildings next to the Ostrich family’s mansion.
Looking where Michelle was pointing, Ivona frowned. "How can you know they are there?" she asked with a frown.
At first, Michelle didn’t feel like speaking, but seeing the daggers in Ivona’s eyes, she sighed. "I have better hearing than you. While we were behind the bushes, hiding from the Ostrich family’s patrolling guards, I overheard them speaking about ’two bastards’ who were captured by the General."
That made Ivona arch a brow. "Two bastards could be anyone. How can you be sure it’s Anastasia and Kieran?" she questioned. "The guards didn’t say anything more?" she added.
"Of course they did," Michelle jumped off the concrete fence and landed softly. "They said that the guy looked dangerous and that the girl was harmless. Doesn’t that fit the description of our lovebirds? Kieran, who never smiles because of his past, and Anastasia, who grew up sheltered in the Helens family."
Ivona frowned a bit. "Saying that Anastasia is harmless sounds odd..." she said, feeling her skin crawl imagining it. Anastasia was far from harmless, even though she grew up sheltered and couldn’t cultivate, when she wanted to, she was a poisonous person who could drive someone crazy with underhanded malice. She could insult someone while masking it with compliments and concern, but not like the Young Ladies Michelle met at the Harvest Festival Banquet. She did it so flawlessly that even her own victim didn’t realize they were being insulted. The words just cut them deep inside, somewhere they didn’t even know it hurt.
"I just repeated what the guards said. I naturally know the truth." Michelle smiled. "Now, come on with me! We’re going to see what the two are plotting."
"What if they are really in trouble?" Ivona asked. "Will we help them?" she added.