He Could Not Believe It

Timothy kept looking at the hill with his eyes flickered. Had he heard any sound from there? No! It was just a fleeting feeling that the girls were there.

But could the girls climb the hill! No! He shook his head there was no way that those girls could do that. Both of them were sheltered and have never gone out of the palace.

It was already a wonder that they had reached the woods.

""Are we thinking of going to the hill, master!"

"No! We are going to check the main path to the town where local carriages can be used. While two of us would go and check the hill and the last two would go and check the dark woods.

That way it would be easy to cover all the areas!" and he would not feel uneasy!

All of them bowed their heads. Those who were asked to check the dark woods and hill felt discontent, but they did not dare to complain to their master, whole cold eyes were so domineering that they felt they could not breath while looking at him.

"Only two!" it was easier than she had thought! Olivia raised her head and looked at her sister who was still looking in the direction of mercenaries with her racing heart and then looked at the surroundings.

If I would kill them, others would be suspicious and send more to look for us. But if they all would return and say the same thing that they did not find us, then we would survive for long.

"Ophi, even if we hide, they could find us since there is not much place to hide in these hills except these few trees.

And if we fight, we will attract more knights." the girl turned to look at her sister with worried eyes. She had noticed the shining swords of the man and the scene of her father getting slashed by them passed in front of her eyes.

The thought was enough to make her sad and the words of her sister were like salt rubbed on her wound.

"But.. if you help me, we can survive this!" With her eyes glimmering like stars, Olivia showed a vicious smile on her face that felt too strange and scary to Ophelia who was already feeling like her sister had changed a lot in a single day.

"What.. what do you want me to do?" intimidated by her face and smile, Ophelia wanted to back away but Olivia was still laying over her while she was trapped between her hands on the ground.

It would have been a dreamy and very intimate position if she would have been a man. Not to forget that she had cut her hair and was dressed in a man's clothing with mature and dark makeup on her skin that was giving her a tanned and mature man's face look.

"I want you to moan when I pinch your neck!"

"Huh!" taken aback by the strange request Ophelia looked at her sister as if she had lost her mind but she did not dare to raise her doubts when she noticed the cold look on her face and nodded her head looking down again.

"Don't you think the master is being too conscious? He had told us that we would not look here but now he is even sending others to the dark woods.

Did he think that those weak girls could even fathom going there?" The man scoffed as he jumped from his horse and looked around with a look of frustration on his face.

"More than that? Why am I climbing the hill when others were enjoying the ride on their horses, leisurely riding on the main road!" He added running a hand in his hair while the other knight fastened the ropes of the horses on the nearby tree and walked towards his friend.

"You should be glad that we are not sent to the dark woods. I didn't even want to imagine how many wild beasts we would have faced while finding princesses there!" The man shuddered even at the thought as he sat beside his friend who frowned but then nodded his head after thinking about it again.

"Hey, do you think that we should go and check that high? How about we sit here for sometime and then return after a day telling we have looked all around but did not find anyone?" He raised a brow and asked with a smug look on his face as if he had finally thought of a great idea that could save all the trouble but the other looked a bit hesitant and then shook his head.

"No! What if the master found out? We should be full of sweat and exhausted face if we do that much hard work.

Looking at our refreshing faces, he will realize we are lying. I did not want to get punished." he shook his head as he did not want to spend the rest of his life working in the stables.

He felt goosebumps just by recalling the angry face of his master.

"You do not need to worry about it. I have everything planned. But if you still want to go, go ahead. I am going to take a nap here!" The man laid where he was sitting, using his left arm as a pillow and covering his face with the other hand to stop sunlight entering his eyes.

The other looked for a while towards his sleeping friend and then at the hill. He knew that friend was not lazy or weak, he just could not believe that the young girl they had seen for years who had trouble walking in high heels and often lost her balance would be able to climb a hill.

Taking a deep sigh of giving up, he laid beside him and closed his eyes too.

"This is a good chance, we should leave before they wake up, Oli or they will find us!"

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