Chapter 3 - Who is she?

A maid screamed. She was a young girl who had lost her parents in an accident, so Butler Harold took pity on her and gave her the housemaid job.

But before putting her on such a serious job, he made her understand the rules of his master’s life - she could never eye their master because their master hates manipulative people, and second, she should keep her mouth shut.

She only got Butler Harold’s cold glare when she screamed like this.

“Patrica, keep your mouth close.” An Aged woman scolded her. The other maid was an old lady who cooked. Other than her cooking, Master Ariston never liked anyone’s food, so she became a permanent cook in the mansion.

“Patrica, we should stay within our boundaries; over curiosity might get us in trouble,” the old woman, Aunty Hina, who understands the world better than Patricia, said with a thoughtful expression.

Patrica lowered her excited eyes as she understood she shouldn’t cross the line at all. She had been working for Master Ariston for over three years, and in these three years, she had never once seen him talk to anyone or care about a human being. Outside of his cold personality, he barely had any life.

So, seeing him close to an unknown child shocked everyone, but everyone was left shocked when they thought about the worst possible way.

How could they not be? After all, their master was already 32 years old, yet he had never interacted with anyone other than a few male friends of his, so it was clear she couldn’t be his daughter with another man. Then who is she?

What shocked them the most was that he directly took the child into his bedroom, which was off-limits for any living human other than Butler Harold and his doctor, yet he just brought an unknown child into his room. Something was not right.

Inside Alexander’s bedroom,

He put the unconscious girl on the bed and looked at the child with a sigh; how he wished he would appear just a little earlier; if he could, the entire Hart family wouldn’t die.

He promised, but this was the first time in his life he failed to keep his promise, and because of him, so many lost their lives; it’s not that he doesn’t care about people; it just he knew if he became close to anyone, that person would be in danger and might lose their lives. That’s why he decided not to make any weakness in his life.

Butler entered after a while and saw his master still beside the girl. His old heart could barely keep up with his master’s actions. He felt his master’s unusual acts would give him a heart attack.

“Master, everything is ready; I prepared the west side room; we can swift her there.” Butler wanted to take the girl and let his master return to his usual self.

He was a man and she was a girl. He wanted to let Aunty Hina take over and change the girl's clothes after Butler put her in the room.

He was about to leave when a heart-wrenching scream gave both Alexander and the old butler a fright.

“Daddy, daddy, bad guy, go away, mommy, mommy, Rose will be good, she will not bother you, mommy, where are you? Take Rose with you.''

The girl kept shouting in her unconscious state and cried like a river flowing out of her eyes.

Both Butler and Alexander looked at the girl with a painful expression; the girl was too little; even though the butler didn’t know what happened to the girl, it seemed she went through something horrible to make her like this.

The girl twisted her little body and kept screaming. Alexander looked at the girl with a frown. He was not very good with humans, but seeing her like that, he felt the girl shouldn’t be in such a state; she was just a little child.

“Call Daniel.” Alexander didn’t even look at Butler. He walked back to the girl and grabbed her tightly as he tried to calm her.

Butler looked at his master with widened eyes; it seemed he would see many things.

He went to call Daniel Reynolds, their master’s doctor, and friend, who was older than their master, but that man was even more childish than a 5-year-old child. God knows how he became a doctor.

Sometimes, even Butler Harold felt the man became a doctor by cheating, but for his medical skill, no one could say a word of doubt because he was good at his profession.

Alexander didn’t know what the girl sensed, but she quieted down and clutched his shirt as if she were holding on to the thread of her life.

“Don’t hurt Daddy,” she murmured as she cried softly.

“No one will hurt Dad, little Rose; calm down, it's just a bad dream." If anyone knows what a nightmare feels like when one has a deep wound in their heart, he was that person, so he knew her pain even though he was not well with his words.

He knew she wasn’t even conscious, but he felt he should say these to her because he was to blame for everything that happened in her life; if he didn't exist, she wouldn’t be like this, and she wouldn’t have to lose her family.

Dr. Daniel was one call away whenever he received any news from Alexander’s side. He appeared at rocket speed, and when he saw it was not Alexander who needed it but someone else, he was stunned.

“Who is she?” was the first question that appeared in Daniel’s mind. Unlike Butler and the maids, he could speak his thoughts out loud.

“Just check on her; why do you ask so many questions?” Alexander sounded angry as he answered Daniel.

Daniel pouted his lips; damn, you called me to treat a patient; at least give me some information, but he knew where to stop, so he didn’t mess with Alexander and checked on her.

After checking on her, Daniel looked at Alexander. “Tell me everything‌. It seemed her sickness had nothing about the physical; it’s about her mind,”