Chapter 9 of chapter 8 I missed her

Duke Pov.....

I have waited for hours and my heart keeps on beating staring at the door entrance, hoping it would opened any minute soon..

I am hoping to see her beautiful face and lovely smile, I want to hold her in my hands again . We have long be apart for some days now. I missed her, I missed her womanly scents. Her lips and every part of her body I have touched and kissed.  She is my other half...

I can't believe that asshole mistress wants to harmed my Isabella, she should be grateful that nothing happens to her and Marcus come at the right time. If not, I wouldn't have spear her life this time, I promise to ripe it off, makes it rolls on the ground and send it back to Lord Mayors for a proper buried!  No one touch the woman I want! 

I dragged on the mattress of the bed, squeeze on it. I need her, I need my woman. What's keeps her waiting, isn't this early enough for her to start working, or she didn't want to come back to my chamber. 

She shouldn't even dare. She had keeps me waiting for days and was far away from my rush. But today, today I am going to plead with her that I have nothing to do with Lady Elsie, she is just my sex mistress.. and you are....

Oh goodness! I need to practice my apology speech if I don't want to ruin the moment. 

I coughed to clear my throat. " Oh Isabella, my Isabella, you're my precious gem and no one else, and I promise that I would never take you for granted. Please just please be my woman. I command you to be my woman, I don't care if you like it or not! You must be my woman!" 

"Really? Is that the way to win a lady heart?" I looked at the door entrance, it's was my favorite person in the world after my Isabella. 

Marcus..

"By command her to be your woman? Arthur, you never stop acting  childish don't you?" 

He walks in and seat on the mattress where I hold on to practice my speech. 

"Who gives you permission to enter my room without knocking" I questioned, looking fiercely at him. "Well the last thing I remember is that someone had granted me all the permission I want years back" He title his head at me. I known clearly well he was reminding me of my promises to him .

I seat up on the bed, " I heard Lady Lily went drowning on the swamp. How was she?" 

He Sighed before answering me. " She is well, I shouldn't have known what to do if anything happens to her" 

" I also heard someone was crying like a baby in my mansion"  I turned my gaze at him. 

He was speechless and didn't know what to say. And the way he looked, he hadn't getting a good sleep at all..

"Next time if you want to cry, go to the sea to cry. I don't want my mansion to be flooded by someone tears that we had to used boats as transportation" 

"Seriously?" He asked creased. "Yes seriously. Don't you know you're a man before crying like a baby in the mansion? I can even heard your cry sounds from here" 

He looks at me angrily. "Are you saying you can hear my tears sounds from here?" 

I nods quietly. "Then, I will be waiting for your turn to cry" 

"Why should I?" 

"Because someone would makes you cry and that Isabella" 

I chuckled after hearing the name he just called. Why would my black precious diamond makes me cry and why will I even cry when I know who I am.

"Please, stop joking I want to enjoyed my day in peace." 

"Haven't Isabella come to clean your room, I hope she hadn't heard  the news of Lily drowned. If not she would be angry with me knowing full well I am the reason she drowned. "

"Why will she? Did you pushed her in the swamp?" I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Really Arthur? Why will I pushed the woman I love..." Then he stopped. "You were going to say a word I have never heard you say. You love her?" I asked trying to teases him more. I know the Marcus I grow up with. 

The first lady I suspected he had feeling for was my Isabella but since he had stayed time with Lady Lily, his feeling shift. That I am more grateful for, because I can't share my woman with someone else. 

"I don't know what you are talking about, I never meant to say any word like that"

"Really?" I frowned " but Why can I feel your heartbeat, Beating for something like love" 

"I have told you never to used your vampire powers on me! What about you? Don't you love the black maid Isabella?" 

" I never said anything like love, I only said I long for her" 

"Well, to me you just say the word love, that means you love her. Nothing you say will change that. The only woman your heart beats for is Isabella and you know that. Or can't vampire not tell their fate?" 

"Get out of my chamber" I said calmly, he was really getting in my nerves. I don't want anything to provoked me except the thoughts of my Isabella. Wait,  am I mad? Only her thoughts should provoked me...

"Alright, I'll leave, I need to stay be the side of Lily before she wakes up. Why you can keeps on denying your love for her. See you in the dark"  he waved and scooped out.

I seat quietly on the bed, thinking of what Marcus just said. What if I am in love with her? I think the best way to know, is to go and look for her since she had refused to fulfill her duties as my handmaid. 

That woman does has some guts...

Suddenly, I saw myself walking in the corridor heading to the servant quarter. What a stubborn woman that my cold heart beats for. 

Along the way, all maids were surprised to see me in the servant quarter, thinking what must have bought down the Duke here. Immediately they saw me, them bowed and refused to lift up their heads until I am out of the sight.

I remember lady Pearl said she lives in the first quarter. The numbers are written on the wall of the building entrance. When I get to the entrance, there were loudly noise coming for the hall. 

I sighed tirelessly, this is the reason I hated coming to such a place in the first time. 

Servant quarter is always noisy, I wonder if them are animals kept for rearing that they always make noise. Can't they just keep it down! 

Anyway, the only reason I'm here was to get my woman for her punishment not to come and attend to her duties. Then, all this flies who are called maids, I will deal with them later....

I wonder how she sleep with all these rockets every where. I scooped in with my heavy boot that makes the sounds of horror and also of dead.

Immediately all places turned into a slient desert as all eyes were draws to me looking scared and frighten, they all bowed without told to. I didn't care and walks in further, why my eyes search for her. 

After looking around and I couldn't found her, my eyes fell on her friend. The girl I have saw her with, the second time my eyes lay on her..

"Emma" I called, as she looks up seem frighten and shrivering. I don't know if my presence terrified her that much. 

"Where is my woman?" I asked straighten looking serious at her with cold eyes that almost send her to her grave. I know she is frighten and the same time confused about the mention of the word 'my woman' 

"Milord.... who is your woman..." She stermmer with her hands shaking.  I could feel her heart beats, beating out of fear. What scared her that makes her this tremble. Is not that I don't like the way theirs hearts beats with fear around me just that hers speak of something different. 

"Where is Isabella?" 

She appears to be speechless as the mention of her name like her words refused to come out of her mouth. She was shaking and same time sweating. I was really getting impatient with her acts. Can her just speak!

I looked at the others, theirs heads are buried to the ground forever as it refused to be lifted up again. What the hell is going on here! 

And no one is speaking! Where is my woman! 

"If I asked you about her whereabouts again, your head would be on the spear" I calmly said keeping my rages in control..

"Milord please have mercy on me!" She cried and fell on her kneels. "Please don't take me too" 

"I will take you too if I don't get the information of my Isabella. Now, where is she!" 

"She... is... take... away. ..by your..... order" she breaks her words as my heart skipped! 

'She is take away by my orders!?' by who fools that touch her, claiming it my orders! 

"Who the fools!?" I growled angrily. She tremble include the others as they heard my thunderous voice. I was burning in rage, my eyes color had changed to it devilish eyes..

She was scared to look at my face and buried her face on the floor. 

"She....was.. taken by the mansion guards.. I don't know where they have taken her to" she explained out of fear. 

"Which day is that?" 

"That was yesterday" 

"And you failed to report that she was taken by some idiots who would soon died in my hands?!" 

She couldn't answered and I seen it's of no use wasting my time to shouts at her who is not in power. 

Lady Pearl would explained this to me much better. Whosoever that taken my Isabella away from me, his or her head would paid a answer for it!

I stromed out angrily...