CHAPTER 235~3RD PERSON’S POV~“Uhhh… I'm so sorry; I didn't know a meeting was going on in here,” Clarabelle apologized, frantically gathering the pieces of cake on the ground and placing them back on her tray. Lunaris smiled and replied, “It’s alright. This place is just a junction inside the mansion anyway. Anyone can come in and go out as they please. In fact, you're the reason we're having a meeting here today.” “I am?” Clarabelle asked.“Yes, come sit with us,” Lunaris answered softly.Clarabelle looked around, then wiped the crumbs of cake from her mouth and walked toward the couches with her tray. She placed the tray of cake on the table in the middle of the room and sat beside Edith. “Hi, everyone,” she said nervously, forcing a smile on her face. “Is it true?” Mary asked.“What?” Clarabelle turned to her with a puzzled look.“That you're an Immortal like Edith,” Mary said with curiosity beaming in her eyes.Clarabelle looked around, and a smile slowly formed on her face.
CHAPTER 236~3RD PERSON’S POV~“Here. This is where the bell sounds the loudest when it rings. This is the best place to begin our search,” Clarabelle said with a soft smile on her face. She stopped walking and rested her fists on both sides of her waist. She, Nicole, and Mary had arrived in a large hall in the Mortimer mansion. The hall had no windows but had multiple chandeliers hanging from its ceiling, acting as its source of light. The hall was designed with black and brown flower paintings that spread on the floor and up its walls. Over 20 different passages were connected to this one hall, and those passages were also connected at different parts of the building, forming a maze-like structure. Maids, who had lived in the mansion for very long, knew their way through every passage, but new maids needed to at least have a map or a guide during their first month of working in the mansion.“This mansion is even larger than I thought. How are we supposed to know which passage the b
CHAPTER 237~3RD PERSON'S POV~“All we have to do is slide down the rope, and we'll be led directly to the bell; hopefully the bellringer is right there waiting for us,” Mary said ecstatically, turning to the other two.“Wait, if all the sound of the bell comes from this one place, how does it spread through all the passages in the building? How can it be heard by everyone at every place in and around the mansion?” Clarabelle asked.“First of all, he's the Immortal of sound. He bends the waves in every direction and makes sure they reach every part of the building and are loud enough to reach the outside. Secondly, you guys are werewolves; you have super hearing,” Mary replied.“Oh. Well, that shaft is too small for me or Nicole to go through. You, on the other hand, would fit in perfectly, so I guess you'll have to go on your own for now,” Clarabelle said.“Hmmm, alright then. How long do I have before all the other maids wake up?” Mary asked.“You have about eight hours before the b
CHAPTER 238~3RD PERSON'S POV~Nicole and Clarabelle finally arrived at the room where they held the meeting with Lunaris. They had been running for a couple of minutes and were now very tired. Nicole looked around the room and only found Herculia and Edith staring at the two of them. “What?! Where's Lunaris?” Nicole asked in shock.“She said her business with us was done for now, and she has somewhere else to be trapped in. I'm not sure what that means, but she left afterwards and hasn't returned since,” Herculia replied.“What happened? Where's Mary?” Edith asked, getting up from the couch.“Mary fell down a shaft somewhere in the mansion while we were trying to find Melody. I tried to teleport her back to us, but I can't seem to reach her at all. I can't feel her presence in this world anymore. It's like she's completely vanished!” Nicole answered with a worried expression on her face.“Oh my! Take me to the shaft she fell through!” Edith exclaimed.****“You can't do this! You’v
CHAPTER 239~3RD PERSON’S POV~“Hmm, so what do we do now? Are you going to go back down there?” Clarabelle asked, sounding very worried. “No, Clarabelle. He knows the right thing to do; if there's any good left in his heart, he'll do it. For now, we just have to go look for the other Immortals we were asked to find,” Mary replied, getting back up. Nicole let out a sigh. “Mary’s right, we can't waste our time trying to convince one Immortal. If we do, Agnes's will get to the others before us. Let’s return to the house quickly and begin our plans for travel,” she said, staring into Mary's eyes.Mary smiled at her softly, staring back.“Are you guys forgetting something?” Clarabelle said.“What?” Mary asked.“To find the next Immortal, we need one mortal from this building. We have to get her before we leave,” Clarabelle said. “Oh,” Nicole said in realization. ****“So, Cortana, in order to keep you from sleep-walking again, we'll have to keep you awake all night long by talking to
CHAPTER 240~3RD PERSON'S POV~“Yuna Teragon?” Cortana asked, folding her arms across her chest. She turned to the wooden floor, staring at her shadow. Her brows furrowed as a look of annoyance grew on her face.“What is it?” Mary asked.“It seems to me like you've heard that name before,” Nicole said with a calm tone, focusing her attention on Cortana's face. She could tell from her looks that Cortana had probably heard of or even met the Immortal before. "Yes, I have, so many times, so many painful times. As children of the Teragon family, we were told stories of the traitor called Yuna Teragon, who abandoned her entire family so she could be with another man—her sick husband, her starving children—she left everything behind because she found someone who would take her out of poverty. I hate her, and I hate it when her name is mentioned,” Cortana replied, her teeth and fists clenched tightly in anger.“But if you've never met her before, why do you hate her so much?” Marie asked.“
CHAPTER 241~3RD PERSON’S POV~“So, you were the one who called this meeting. Seeing that your family's seal was on the letter sent, I thought your father was the one who asked for this meeting,” Steven said, folding his arms across his chest and relaxing on his seat's backrest.“I have something important to announce; I had to make sure you and everyone in this room would take this meeting seriously, so I used the family seal instead of a personal one. My father would have been here to deliver the message himself, but he asked me to do it,” Evelyn replied, locking her finger and placing the resulting interlace below her chin.“Yeah, I thought so. So what is your important announcement? Say it out so we can all be on our way,” Steven said, and all eight guests turned to Evelyn.“Don’t be in such a rush. First of all, please go over the document sitting in front of all of you. Inside, you'll see a detailed graph representation of how much growth The Mortimers have achieved over the las
CHAPTER 242~3RD PERSON’S POV~Steven and Gregory turned away from the door and turned to each other, looking very bewildered by Ruth’s words. Steven placed his left elbow on the table and held his chin gently with his index finger and thumb, his eyes focused on the table. “What do you think Evelyn’s plan could be? From what she said at the meeting, she only plans to gain the government's attention by helping people. Why would she need to buy off the other shareholders for that? I mean, I don’t support the idea of involving politicians in our private business, but helping people isn’t such a bad thing,” Steven asked, then turned back to Gregory.“Evelyn has always been a cunning woman, and it's all because of her obsession for you. The lady is madly in love with you, and she doesn’t mind sacrificing other people to get you. So, whatever she’s doing in that company now, I’m sure she has ulterior motives,” Gregory replied, sounding very annoyed.“I know all that. But what if we're just