Chapter 12 Imminent Celebration

Valerie

It’s very hard to say that I had a good time being a maid slave here, but liked I mentioned before, I did think it’s much better than being underground.

Sometimes, I would even retrieve the old happy feelings shortly when I was at the terrace on third-floor and taking a view overlooking the lawns enchanted by the beauty of sunset. Or sometimes, I would try to keep some hopes, like Ava always suggested, that I might be liberated someday in the future.

Although deep down, I knew they were merely my unrealistic imaginations, I was tricked by the peaceful appearance of ever-present danger.

I had always known that our lives, friendships or hopes here were all based on a thin string that could easily be tore by a sudden change of the masters’ tempers

They could easily kill us within a blink of second.

But I failed to be prepared for something even more torturous in a subtle way.

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