"So tell me woman...who the fuck are you?"
Anastasia gulps because of too much tension between them but didn't do anything to avoid the heated gaze coming from the old man. He's looking straight at her eyes, finding the truth on them.
She actually expected this. She expected the old man to caught her like this because ofcourse, her attitude is far too different to Doreen Garcia, the real owner of the body. Its very noticeable.
But it doesn't mean that she let him get her with this. Not now when they already started the investigation. Not now when they already moving with the goal in mind of ending things.
"What are you talking about old man?" So she tried to mask up an innocence and act like she's confuse with the sudden accusation, making sure that she doesn't show any of her emotions to his uncle.
"You're not Doreen Garcia. Because the Doreen Garcia that I've know is a s
"Wait...wait a minute. Its really embarrassing I dont know how to face them now.""Lady Doreen you're over reacting." The prince deadpanned.But can you blame her tho? Everyone just saw HER crying. It is something to be embarrass right?"Its not." The prince answered, reading her mind."Huh?""I can read you like an open book my lady. Your face was literally saying that what happened is something to be embarrass of which is–Im telling you now that its not." He said.Anastasia cant help but to roll her eyes.Why is everyone can read her easily? Is she really that readable?"Lets just go Doreen. Your taking so much time!""But-" She was cut off when the prince finally loses his patience and grab her wrist, pulling her with him.Anastasia was having an inner turmoil when she noticed that they are already at the living room in just a few minutes.That was fast...He didn't even give her a
"What?""I said Im not Doreen Garcia." Anastasia repeated, more confident this time."What are you talking ab-" Lord Gilbert was cut off when the prince decided to interfer.Prince Alistair grab her arm lightly and pulled her on the other side, making some distance from the old man so he wouldn't hear what he is about to say."Lady Doreen what are you saying? Are you out of your mind?" Alistair whispers at her but the firmness on his voice is still evident."Your highness...do you trust me?" She asked in a low tone instead."Huh?""Eliot..." She called him again, with his real name this time. "Can you trust me? Im asking you to trust me with this." Anastasia said with a determination in her eyes. She even called him on his original name to show him how serious she is right now.The prince was obviously having an hard time to decide whether
And the next thing happened passes in a blur. All Anastasia could hear was the loud cry coming from the actress. But she cant do anything. Her mind instantly went blank and just left staring at the lifeless body with mixed emotions. She cant even bring herself to move or to do something or to say something. Its like her body just completely shut down on its own after seeing the corpse, hanging on the ceiling, with a rope on its neck.She want to close her eyes. She badly want to close her eyes. The sight was terrifying, traumatizing. But she cant move."Miss Louise stop! You cant touch the body!" She heard someone yell from somewhere so she tried to find where the voice is coming from.Its the prince. He's holding the actress who was close on hyperventilating. But she cant afford to help him. She cant even move her body to do so."Miss Louise I said stop! Detective why aren't you helping me?!" Anastasia he
"You think its a Hebrew Alphabet once again?" Anastasia asked in wonder."I think so. Its pretty similar." Alistair replied while studying the sign in every angle, hand on his chin."We cant tell that for now until we check it on the book itself to make sure." The detective said before inspecting the other parts of the body to see if she can find something helpful.After making sure that nothing can be found except from the sign on the neck, Alice instructed the servants to bring the body to the basement like where the other victims is currently placed. But they decided to remove the rope first on the victim's neck. They even encountered some difficulties from removing it because the rope was so tight around the neck. It was like...the culprit put it in with so much rage.I wonder what's the cause of all this murder. Anastasia thinks.After removing the r
"What?!" Anastasia said in disbelief."Are you sure detective? Maybe you just misplace it on somewhere." Alistair tried to suggests."No! Im certain that I've put the green book on my table together with my other belongings." The detective said in so much distress."Who could have take the book? Did you ask Madame Leticia already?" She asked Alice."Yes and she said that she doesn't have any idea about the book that Im talking about.""But we are the only ones who knows about the existence of the book." Anastasia mumbles to herself and stiffened when she realize something that was proven by the gaze with full of suspicions that the detective is currently throwing her. "No its not me!" She defended instantly."You said it yourself...we are the only persons who know about the book and we share the same room–""Detective are you accusing Lady Doreen?" P
"Come again?" The detective said."I said I have a photographic memory." The actress repeated."You mean...you have the ability to visualize a certain image in a great detail?" Anastasia said, clearly impressed with the new information."Yes." Louise answered."OMG! That was really awesome!" Anastasia cant hide her amazement and even jump to the actress for a hug.She actually admired the people who have that kind of ability. In fact, she can only read that idea from the books so she was really amaze to see one."Its not really a big thing." The actress uttered shyly."It is!" Anastasia insists when she pulled out."Sometimes..." Both of them turned their heads to Alice when she suddenly muttered something. "Your words really confuse me Lady Doreen." she continued.Oh?Did she slipped again?
"Lady Doreen!"Its Prince Alistair.The culprit hisses under his breath and immediately looses his hold from the lady's neck before sprinting to the other direction in a speed of light.Anastasia on the other hand, cough so hard and tried to gain back the air that had been hold after being choked for a second."Doreen are you okay?" Alistair immediately come to her aid."D-dont worry a-about me...c-catch the c-culprit." Anastasia said while pointing to where the culprit ran, still catching her breath.The prince looks uncertain to leave her alone when one of the rooms suddenly went open, revealing the awaken detective."What is happening here? Lady Doreen what happened to you? Is you the one who shouted?" Alice said in consecutive questions."G-go...Alistair." Anastasia just urged the prince who nodded before running towards the pointed di
"Hey...correct my memory if its wrong but...all of them arrive on the commotion earlier with almost at the same time right? Like all of them were present, no one was left out?" Anastasia suddenly brought up, remembering the scenario earlier."Now that you mentioned it, I was actually surprised when I saw that we are completed that time. I even made a head count to check if someone was missing.""Does that mean that...none of us was the culprit all this time?""I dont know...but lets not assume for now." Alistair just uttered. "...and if none of us was really the culprit, then that makes the servants as the suspects since aside from us, they are the only people inside this mansion." He said."But they said its not them. Senorita Laura even defended their servants as an innocent." Anastasia said in wonder."Its not like you were going to admit it if you're the culprit." The prince reasoned i