Chapter 3

Chapter 3

They let me in until we enter the mansion. She was talking and explaining about the house while I looking at the surroundings. Some changes to the house but my nervousness when I came in are in there and I have to pretend I'm fine. 

“I’m glad you're fine on your trip, are you tired, do you want to rest or eat, what do you want?” She asked.

I look at her, “I’m fine, how’s the house?”

She looked about the ceiling before she talks again, “it’s fine, it's a little tedious to just clean up because the mansion is so big. If you notice dust I’m advance saying sorry for that and we don't clean the whole before you we know that you will arrive this day and we cook what you can eat, it is a shame that you are tired of the trip and you have nothing to eat here.”

“It’s fine.”

“Do you want some help and bring your luggage to your room?”

My brow arched, “what room?”

“Upstairs.”

I shake my head, “no, I don’t want any room upstairs, can you prepare some room here on the first floor?”

She smiles all the time while talking at me that’s why the wrinkles in her ages showing, “oh it’s fine, the guess room here is also prepared.” She continues talking that some of the parts of the mansion need to reconstruct but the originality are in there.

We go to the dining area of the mansion, she was right, everything in the kitchen is new now and she said that auntie was the one who spends to renovate some parts of the house. I sat down to the stool of the minibar and lay my canvas back to the chair beside me. She starts to put plates and utensils in front of me. She put lasagne, garlic bread, and iced tea.

“Thank you,” before I dig in.

“I feel sad that this house will be selling.”

“I’m sorry about that.”

“No, it’s okay, I’m not used to it because all my life with my husband and my only son live here and care this like our own house. We have so much memory here.”

I don’t when she did start staying here at the house as a caretaker but I guess auntie knows about those and I forgot to ask about the house because I wanted to forget it. 

“Is everything is okay here?”

She nodded, “yes of course.”

I wanted to hear something but I didn’t push her.

“I'm not going to stay here long, maybe during the summer, I'll try to take care of everything before someone buys this house and I will return to Roseville City.”

“That’s a good idea and by the way I almost forgot. We have a list of buyers here,” he put the piece paper in the mini-tablet and I read some of their names. “They’re the families who are willing to buy this mansion and their contact information, you can call them.”

“Yes, thank you, I will.”

“What do you want after this?” Pointing at my food because I was almost done.

“I want to visit downtown before I rest.”

“Oh that’s a good idea, I think you need to wait for my son and he can give you a ride to the downtown because he will deliver some, vegetables and eggs from your family farm to the small market to the downtown.”

“Okay,” I nodded.

I almost forget that we have a family business and I am surprised that they still continuing it.

When I’m done eating, I just wait here son until he has arrived and he was surprised when he saw a new person in the living room beside his mother.

He is wearing speaks, pale skin, curious dark eyes, dark hair while wearing bonnet on it, sharp nose, and small lips. He looks like a boyish college student to me. Tall but the right build of the body. He is wearing a gray shirt underneath of plain black long sleeve unbuttoned, paired of tattered pants and black sneakers.

“Hi,” he greeted at me.

“She is Emily LeStrange the owner of this mansion.”

“Oh okay.”

“Emily, this is my son Darius.”

“Nice meeting to you.”

“Same.” He looks like he was bored talking.

“By the way Darius, Ms. LeStrange wants to go downtown and you can give her a ride.”

“Yes, of course. I need to prepared the eggs that’s need to deliver.” He said before leaving us. 

“You can go now,” Mrs. Marcos said.

“Thank you,” before I went out to the mansion. I saw the old truck parking in front. I sat in the passenger seat. In the mirror I saw Darius placing the trays of egg in the back of the truck before we go.

We're silent on the trip until he breaks the silence when he asks me.

“Do you want to join the Hunting Party?”

I looked at him while my brow arched, “what hunting party?”

“It’s a festival every year that everyone can join to this down, to the five days of festival their so-called hunting party which all of the members of the party will be gathered in the forest at night with weapons and everything. A hunting party is like hunting a wolf.”

I surprised by what he said.

           

“It almost 8 years they were doing it and those 8 consecutive years. No pack of wolfs attacked this province, should I say it’s like a ritual that keeping the province safe.”

I remembered again everything that happens that night 8 years ago. 

“So, do you want to join?”

I hate those wolves because of what they did to my family. “What if the wolf shows up to that hunting party?”

“And that’s would be good,” he said and still looking at the road. I saw that we are near downtown because of the buildings and establishment. The people were walking on the sidewalks, some walking in and out from the market.

“I’m in.”

He looked at me when he parked the truck in front of the market and smile at me, “that’s the good decision and so you can get the best experience of your summer before you go.” He said before came out of the truck. 

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