70 THE TRUTH 2

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I stared at him in utter shock! I felt a stab in my heart, a ringing sound that tore down my cores, I was speechless for a bit as I tried to compose my beating heart to calm down. I tried to open my mouth only to close it.

'Why is it painful? Too painful for my heart... Is it because of longing? Is it because of the Duchess?' 

The reason was unknown but what I'm sure of is that this will lead me to another path. If I take the chance to learn about everything that happened during my childhood days, would that lead me to a bigger problem? Or would that lead me to escape? It was a path full of uncertainty.

Still, this will give me enough purpose to continue searching for myself and how and why do I have to reincarnate in a novel.

Whatever explanation that maybe, I'm sure that I need to keep on digging it.

If the duchess died at the back garden then the reason why that garden was untended and abandoned clicked to me. 

I now knew...