Chapter 105: A Little Entreaty (2)
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Looking out the window, Madeline’s dark orbs peered out into the quiet street at the dead of night, silently watching the trees and houses that the carriage rode past. The air was thick with the sound of clanging hooves and the jingling of carriage wheels as they continued to ride down the silent path.
"Papa, are we not going back home?" Sitting back on the carriage, she looked at her parents who were sitting opposite the seat in front of her, and her innocent mind couldn’t help but ask as she noticed the direction the carriage took wasn’t leading them to their home.
"No my dear, we are not going back home, for now." Her father, with a warm smile on his lips, assured his little daughter who kept stealing glances at the houses the carriage rode past.
"But then where are we going?" She asked again, and noticed her parents exchanging strange glances before her mother, who had the same color of eyes and hair as hers, stretched her hand forward for Madeline to hold.
"Your father and I are going to drop you somewhere safe for a few days, someplace where no one can ever harm you or even think of looking for you. Okay?"
Confused, Madeline’s thin brows creased in befuddlement. "But there’s no one trying to harm us - but why am I going? Are you planning on leaving me there?"
"Just for the meantime." Her father, Albert Edmund reassured his daughter in the same soothing tone. "Your mother and I have something important to deal with, and staying at home is not safe, we will come get you once we’re done, hmmn?"
Before she could ask any further questions regarding where she was going, her father averted his gaze to something else entirely, leaving his daughter to pause in her question and indicating that the conversation was over.