Anxious- Part 2

Getting out of the cell, the Lord began walking out not before stopping midway.

"Malphus," Alexander called out to him.

"Yes milord," the ghost replied immediately without delay following him.

"Stay here for tonight," he ordered to which Malphus made a dumbfounded face. Even though he was a ghost himself he didn't like surrounding himself in an eerie dungeon where men and women had died, "If something comes up, go to the butler."

"But he can't see me," Malphus replied to see the Lord smile.

"While you're here help the guards with burying the bodies in the woods," and the Lord left without another word.

Being dead for such a long time, it had slowed down Malpus's thought process and it took him some time to realize that the Lord had told him to help in the burial because the guards could see him now!

Inside the mansion, Katie paced front and back in her room with nervousness.