4 Chapter 4

"What are you doing here mister?" Celestina looks at the expressionless duke.

'His face is to handsome!'

The duke doesn't answer instead he walks around the cramped room and his face grows darker with every step he takes.

"Louise, buy this orphanage." Louise looks at his master with wide eyes. His cold master who never care about these things suddenly wants to buy this orphanage? What's wrong with him? Is he sick? Hundreds of assumptions fly through Louise's mind in one second. He composes himself and quickly agrees to his master's words.

"Can we talk for a second Ms. Vivi?" Louise politely guides Ms. Vivi into her office as if the orphanage is his. Ms. Vivi obediently follows him. Celestina sneers at the sight of that, the woman fears of the powerful yet uses the weak to earn money and she even abuses them.

"Mister, what are you doing?" Celestina says hastily when the duke picks the sick Ambrose up from his bed. The young boy cough uncomfortably before settling to a comfortable position in the duke's arms.

"Let's go." The duke says the words firmly and walks out, his steps slow down when he notices Celestina's short legs can't follow his pace.

"Mister! What are you doing?" Celestina follows the duke and grabs the tail of his coat when she finally catch up to him.

"I will explain it all when we're out. This place is too filthy." He spats these words out and looks around the room once more before walking out with his pace even slower this time as Celestina is still holding his coat.

"Fine."

They walk through the short hall and Celestina watches as other children play at their own rooms and at the hall.

When they are finally outside, the duke carry Ambrose to a really good looking carriage and puts him inside it. He then carry Celestina who is clearly struggling climbing up the carriage.

"Where are we going mister?" Celestina asks when the duke sits himself.

"To my mansion."

"What about the other children?"

The duke thinks for a while and makes up his mind when he sees Louise walking out of the orphanage.

"Louise will take care of it"

Louise who is walking down the stairs feels a stone hitting his head. 'Huh? What's that?'

The carriage brings them to a white building after 15 minutes. The servants outside carry Ambrose out of the carriage and in the hospital.

The duke himself carry Celestina down the carriage and brings her in the hospital with her hand holding his coat.

When the doctor sees the frail Ambrose and quickly does check-ups on him before sighing in relief.

"His condition is safe. Thankfully you bring him here quickly. Eat this pill once a day until his temperature goes down, don't let him be exposed to the cold wind and make sure he eats regularly. His body is way too malnourished and his immune system is weak so make sure he eats and exercise a lot." The doctor who doesn't know he is talking to servant of Duke Ashdown talks casually and even dare to lectures the him. He doesn't seem to mind and receives the pills respectfully before gently carrying Ambrose out.

"What's wrong with him?" Celestina asks to the servant.

"His body is malnourished and he has high fever. The doctor says it's fine as long as he eats the pill and eats and exercise regularly." The servant stares at the cute young girl whose eyes was looking at him pitifully as if she's about to cry if he says something bad happens to the boy in his arms.

"I see. Thank you.."

"Let's go now. It'll be dark when we got back." The time is already six in the evening and they have to be quick or it'll be more than 7 when they got to the mansion.

The journey to the mansion is quiet. Celestina who doesn't eat enough doesn't have much energy after walking so much in the afternoon and the duke who is a quiet person doesn't bother to make small talks too. Celestina soon got sleepy but she tries to keep herself awake by looking outside. The sits in the carriage is even more comfortable than the beds in the orphanage. They have soft cushion and isn't hard at all.

"Sleep, you look tired." Francisco says when he sees the small girl blinks her eyes to keep herself awake.

"Hehe, should I? Hoamm" Her sleepiness finally wins and she falls asleep after yawing.

Francisco takes his coat off and places it on top of her. Her white dress is too thin and the weather has got colder. He looks at Ambrose who was comfortably sleeping by her side and scrunches his eyebrows.

"What should I do with them?" His decision to help her is not a wrong decision but to bring her and that boy is a thoughtless decision but since he has said his words, there's no way to break it.

It is 7 and a half when they arrives at the mansion, the small mansion for Francisco is a huge mansion for Celestina. It's bigger than any house she has ever seen.

"Carry him to a guest room and call Henry." Henry is a family doctor of the Ashdown family. His talent is said to be one of the best but no one know what his background.

"Yes master" Louise bows and carries Ambrose from the servant arms and brings him to the guest room before calling Henry.

The servants lining up for the duke's arrival are stunned with the sight of the two children but the quickly composed their minds and greet the duke respectfully.

"This child's name is Celestina. Bring her to the second floor and get her something to eat." He hands her over to a woman with some white hair. The woman smiles warmly to her and holds her tiny hand while the duke goes up to his office to continue his delayed works.

"You can call me Ginny. Nice to meet you young miss." Ginny says warmly, it's been so long since she takes care of a young child and it makes her giddy all over again.

"Okay Ginny" After Celestina done talking, her stomach growls loudly and she holds her hands together at her stomach looking very embarrassed.

"Oh my! Look at me, let's get you something to eat first okay. You must be really hungry." Ginny leads her to a dining room while all the other servants follow behind them like chicks.

"Do you have anything you want to eat?"

"Anything is fine! Would you mind giving it to Ambrose to?" Celestina is concerned about Ambrose, the young boy is so frail and she is afraid that they forget to feed him.

"Don't worry young miss. Yilina is taking care of him- she's a very good worker." Ginny quickly explains to her to make sure the young girl doesn't misunderstand anything.

"I see... thank you!" Celestina smiles brightly. Ginny is stunned at her cute face and composed herself forcing herself to calm down. She cannot scare the young miss. The servants around them too calm themselves down.

"Here's the food. Porridge with some chicken meats and healthy vegetables. It's already late so the chef prepares some easily digested food so you won't feel ill later. Eat well young miss."

"Thank you" Celestina climbs up the high chair and eats slowly. The porridge is very yummy and it smells so heavenly, it reminds her of the food in her old life.

After she eats, Ginny brings her to a beautifully decorated room and brings her to bath before settling her down to her bed.

Ginny goes out after she blows out the candles.

"Good night, Ginny."

"Good night, young miss. Have a nice dream." With a lantern in her hand, Ginny closes the door gently and goes to her own room.

Celestina lays in the huge bed and thought about her old life. Speaking of it, she misses her parents, what are they doing now? Is she missing in her world? What happens to her body there?

She doesn't know anything, she has no idea about what happens to her. How did she come here and why did she come here.

Not wanting to think anymore, Celestina lets her fatigue come and sleeps in the foreign world.

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