Chapter 21 - Hidden Treasures Of Cliff Top Manor

Emmy heard Alex's soft voice with a furious tone hidden in it. After the accident, she always had forsworn any relation with others, but now she never hated the physical contact with Alex. Whenever he embraced her or sat beside her, she felt absolute comfort and inner peace within her.

"Alex, would you believe me if I tell you the truth about myself?"

The guy who was furiously waiting for an answer when met with a strange question gently patted her back. He was certain that he should patiently wait to let her open up to reveal the scar of her past. Alex didn't rush Emmy, he gently smoothened the flocks of her hair and pacified her.

" I am Emmetina Ezbertraz, the only child of Shawn Esbertraz and Lilian Dargardian. Three years ago, I lost my parents and my memories in the accident or should I say, assassination staged by an unknown power. I heard it was the people from the Dagardian family who wanted to kill their prodigal daughter for defaming the whole family. I do not remember what happened on that day. After waking up, I had no one there to accompany me, all I saw was blood everywhere and my parents' bodies in the basement of our house. They had last written a letter with a will attached to it. From that day, I am a person who is seeking answers to know why such a peaceful family was slaughtered without any reason. "

" You won't believe me if I say that after my memories got lost, the only name in my head was Salian. I didn't know whether you are a friend or that enemy that I am trying to find."

Alex tightened his hold over the little girl inside his arms, his curiosity had made Emmy tore open the wound of her life.

"So that is the reason why you were like a firecracker whenever you met me huh!...."

" Firecracker? Me? oh, tell me who was sitting frozen like a thousand-year-old mummy, with no expression and just an arrogant looking face. ".

They both slowly deviated from the painful memories and started a kitty fight but soon tiredness washed over both them. After putting Emmy to sleep, Alex slowly got up from her bed and returned to his bed to catch his sleep. However, in the early morning, he woke up hearing the rumpus made by Emmy in her sleep. He could hear her sobbing and amidst murmuring something.

Alex leaned to hear her feeble sound, and then suddenly a powerful force clutched his throat. He looked frantically at those hands which were clenching his neck forcefully.

"EMMY….."

Alex shouted with all his might, abruptly Emmy opened her eyes making Alex shocked to the bones. The green-colored eyes were looking at him as if the owner was ready to kill him with just a snap of fingers but in another second, the expression turned as if the owner had found her lost possession of her life.

The grip gradually loosened allowing Alex to catch his breath back, and he was stunned to see the killer woman closing her eyes to sleep peacefully. With that sudden attack, Alex came to the conclusion that Emmy is no ordinary earthling. Her demeanor might be simple but deep down, she has a powerful self that is inactive for some reason. Though Alex's sleep was long gone, just as he laid on the bed, sleepiness washed over him, putting his paranoid brain to rest for the day.

The next morning, Alex woke up late to find his gang inside the room discussing the news they found. Mike got the news that no one is bothered about the missing of the eldest Agnartic princess as their elders strictly warned her family to stop searching for her. The elders stated that a calamity will arise if the cause of her disappearance is made known. So they are keeping low for now.

Juliet found something rather interestingly adulterous, the second prince of the Salian family has an indecorous relationship with the second princess of the Agnartic family. It is not known to the elders but the Agnartic majesty has plans to give away his daughter to the Salian prince…..not the second prince, but to the crown prince.

"What? That pig head wants me to marry his daughter, he is inviting his death if that is the case."

Mike shook his head when he saw that his brother had woke up, "Brother, that is just the insider information. You know our father pretty well, right!! He is biased to the second brother, so do you think that he will allow this marriage knowing that the second brother has eyes on her?"

" Do not get fooled by his clumsy behavior, he is the most cunning and sly fox among the various leaders. He plans to collude with the Salian family's power to terminate the dark clan. He will never admit defeat easily. He shall use any methods to exact his revenge on the dark clan as all Agnartic people believe their princess was killed by our lord. "

Jordan sat beside Alex and warned the gang about the cunning diplomats of the Agnartic clan.

"Alex, what happened to your neck?"

As Jordan shot the question, all looked to the place where he was pointing and simultaneously looked towards Emmy. Emmy, who remembered nothing when she woke up in the morning, sat near the window dumbfounded. She looked at Alex's neck, and sneered, " Guys, grow up. Yesterday I slept like a pig."

Now it was Alex's turn to sit dumbly, he clearly remembered those green eyes and the feelings which it showed.

Alex gave a sigh, and he elucidated the matter which had happened during Emmy's pig sleep.

" Are you saying that I have powers? No, I heard from Jordan that my aura is different but having powers inside the body, the owner would be able to detect it. However, I have never felt such a thing. "

" Do you find it hilarious? I will never forget those green eyes. Emmy, I would not let you off, if those eyes haunt me in my beauty sleep."

The bickering between the two eased the tense atmosphere.

" Guys, what to do about the dead-end? From where should we start again?" Janet spoke up.

" I believe the cliff-top manor holds secrets in it, Alex, the basement where I found my parents' bodies last is mysterious. I never dared to open the basement again because my dad wrote in the letter not to open the basement ever again. We need to start from there, I feel that brutal killings have got some connections in the disappearance of Lady Vilmon."

" Emmy, why do you feel that both of these are connected in some way?" Everyone was as curious as Juliet, however it was Juliet who asked her doubt first.

"Because it is the only place where the treasures of the clifftop manor lie…..."