Chapter Twenty Seven

"Your dear brother Xander? He has gone missing."

It seemed like the time itself had stopped moving as those words left Gustav's lips. Agatha's eyebrows scrunched together, her lips parted as she shook her head slightly, moving backwards as if she had just found out the monster hiding under her bed.

"No. Wh-what do you mean...missing?"

"It means what it is- missing." Gustav replied with a shrug, studying his daughter's movement and reaction.

While Agatha's head began to spin as her thoughts got all jumbled, Gustav stared at her, intrigued with his children's behaviour.

One minute she doesn't like his presence, next the news of his disappearance has her completely...shook? Wow.

The sudden noice of glass crashing against the floor has Agatha jumping out of her skin, not expecting something like that.

Glancing at each other, the duo ran out of the room, only to find spilled tea and broken tea cups and saucers, with a terrified Soralina behind it all.

Her eyes remained wide as base