"That's so gentleman of you, Demitri." She heard her father commented. His tough voice can be heard just behind the wall that she's hiding.
Her room is just in a distance away to her father's room. When she found the journal that she's looking for, she puts it inside of her jacket then returned back the journals inside the drawer. With the help of her speed, she's able to do it for just a second without a sound then she hides behind the door.
She heard Demitri chuckled. "I'm just fulfilling my duty, Mr. Luciano." She can picture him smiling with his soothing and gentle voice.
There's a a chuckle after his words, coming from his father. And there's a silence for a second as she feels his strong presence approaching from the back of the door.
She holds her breath, careful not to make a noise.
"If you won't mind, Mr. Luciano, can I have a talk with you?" She heard Demitri suddenly said.
"I won't mind. What is it all about?" Her father asked with a firm voice. His footsteps stopped just behind the door.
"Can we talk somewhere?" Demitri promptly said but careful not to be suspicious.
"Sure. Let me just get my pack of cigarette." He heard him announced that make her heart thump as she bites her lower lips. She's afraid that she might get caught sneaking inside his room without his permission.
She didn't hear a response after, and she can hear her breathing slowly getting heavy. It's her strict father and frightful leader after all. He's not just a leader for nothing. And somehow, she already takes a step to make a good image in front of him.
"I didn't know that you're also smoking?" She heard his father said from the back of the door.
Demitri chuckled. "Just recently. I rarely use it." Then she heard her father's footsteps walking away from the door.
"Am I the only one to discover your new secret?" Her father chuckled. She heard a chuckle from Demitri as well as their footsteps started walking away until it disappeared behind the door.
She took a deep breath and sigh in relief. She didn't waste a time and started reading his journal, she searched for the entry that's near the date of Levana's wedding or just her name mentioned. She swiftly scans all the pages and after turning pages, she at last saw what she's looking for. But it's not Levana's name that she saw, it's her father's name.
She started reading all the entry about her. While reading the content of it, she unconsciously bites her bottom lip as her grip on the journal tighten. It turns out that her father and Mr. Walter had an agreement. They both planned everything in order to get her back.
After she gets the information she needed, using her vampire speed, she gets back the journal on the cabinet and immediately sneak out the room. And when she arrived at her room, she locked it.
'In order to get me back, he might have also done the same thing.' She concluded inside her mind with grimace. She mindlessly takes off her jacket and the journal of her mother landed on the floor. She lazily picks it up and puts it inside the drawer of her table.
"Are you okay?" A hoarse voice of man whispered into her ears. It was Demitri sitting beside her. They're currently having a dinner with all the royal blooded in a long table. It has been a routine ever since.
She didn't bother to look at him and just nodded. She can't talk about it since there are a lot of ears listening in the room, even they seem like minding their own businesses while others are talking. Also, the woman beside her is her stepmother that's occasionally glancing at them.
She took a deep breath and decided to eat the unmoved food in her plate, she didn't notice that she's just separating its content. No wonder Demitri asked concerned question. The noise of the crowd and sound of utensils rattling filled in the room. But a man marching hurriedly towards the edge of the table to her father, caught Rue's attention. She's sees him within her peripheral vision and observing him leaned towards her father to whisper something.
"A prisoner escaped from our dungeon." She heard the man whispered into his ears. Just within an instant, the room suddenly went silent. Everyone surely heard the news with their keen hearing.
And after a second, the room is filled with noises and whispering again. Her father intently cleared his throat to make them quiet, his strong appearance still composed.
"You may proceed on the information." Mr. Luciano ordered, resting his elbow above the table and clasps his hands.
"Only one prisoner escaped. He went missing this afternoon and based on the incident, we're assuming that someone might have helped him to get out." The informant explained. The informant is secured from other's ability on reading mind, and he's one of the most trusted men of Mr. Luciano.
Everyone glances at each other and whispering, intrigued on the information that they have heard. While Rue's eyebrow twitched. Thinking that the prisoner scaped during the occasion earlier, then it has been well planned.
Mr. Luciano's eyes furrowed, and his eyes visible of danger. While thinking who might it be that's challenging his authority and power. He looked at the informant with meaningful look.
"Everyone, you don't have to worry and panic. It's just a prisoner, there's no threat." Mr. Luciano started in a loud and firm voice.
"Everything is under control. We will just have a meeting. You can all resume on eating." He added with a confident and reassuring statement. While Rue is busy finishing her food as fast as she can.
Mr. Luciano looked at Mr. Alaric, including Demitri and Ezekiel. It's like a signal for them to leave and gather for a meeting. As they stood up on their seats, Rue stood up as well. And they all look at her with confusion and a glimpse of intrigued eyes didn't slip in her peripheral vision.