Mia
“Yay! We did it.” We screamed as we got to my room, jumping around like kids with our hands held together.
I inhaled the air, loving the familiar smell of my bedroom. It was good to be back home. I couldn’t wait to have a long soak in the bath tub and sleep for hours on end. I would pick the comfort of my bed anytime over being on that island but Albert came first this minute. We had to free him before we start to think of rest.
We should go to his study, check if there was a material that could help us track his whereabouts. We would find his broken soul, kill him, save Albert and be back to our big, happy family. I missed mum and I knew that she would have missed me greatly. She would have called while I was at the forest and probably worry herself to death for not being able to reach me.
I sighed. I would send her a text later to tell her that I was fine and apologize for not calling because I was busy. I couldn’t afford to call her because I didn’t trust myself or my voice. What was I going to say when she ask of her husband?
I turned to the boys to ask them what the the next step was and gulped when I met them staring at me.
“What is wrong?”
Jack frowned. “Where was your mind? Haven’t you looked around your room?”
I gasped as I saw it. What? This was unbelievable.
“Was it like this?” Quinn asked.
I didn’t know what to say. I hadn’t tidied it after packing that day in my rush to go with them on the trip so they wouldn’t leave me behind but it wasn’t as rough as this. Even if it was, the cleaning staff should have tidied it up. Had they really left my room like this all this while? I needed to have a word with them. Did they become relaxed from their duty because we weren’t at home? What were they doing? What had they been up to? What had the head staff been doing?
“I…” I began but stopped when I didn’t know what to say. I was embarrassed that the boys had found my room like this. Maybe we should have agreed on Quinn’s room.
“Don’t worry. I will have a word with the staff once we are outside.” Quinn said. “Even if you had left your room like this when we left, it shouldn’t be like this when we are back. What were the maids doing? It seems more like someone had been snooping around the room, I will have to ask the head maid what happened in our absence. Did they employ a servant that was untrustworthy without our knowledge?”
I gasped as I saw my bra hanging off the edge of the bed and rushed towards it so I could push it away and hide it. I wasn’t fast enough though. The boys already saw it and chuckled when they saw what I wanted to do.
“You are hiding your bra from us after the intimate moments we have shared together?” John laughed at me.
Quinn chuckled. “How funny that she is suddenly acting shy.”
“Don’t mind her.” Jack laughed. “She wasn’t shy when she was writhing underneath us as we lavished our tongues on her boobs and fucked her like crazy.”
“Boys!” I gasped at their words, blushing furiously. I didn’t have to be before a mirror to know that I was redder than a tomato.
They chuckled. “Let’s go and find out what happened here. Who dared to not clean your room?” John growled.
“Or who dared to snoop through her room?” Quinn growled.
“Whatever it is, we are finding answers today.” Jack replied.
“Let’s go.” I nodded and stepped out after the boys.
We were shocked to get out and find out that there was nobody in the house. Everywhere was dry. It was as if there was no living souls at all in the house. I frowned and realized that the boys were also scowling when I turned to them.
I didn’t know what to make of that. On a normal day, we couldn’t have walked for five minutes in the house along the hallway without seeing at least two maids and even if they weren’t serious with their duties because we weren’t around, it wasn’t possible that they weren’t all serious. The lower maids could have done that but the head maid couldn’t have done that. I didn’t think I had ever seen anyone as workaholic as she was.
Something had to be wrong.
“Let’s drop our bags in Quinn’s room since it is nearer and find out what is going on here.” Jack suggested.
We all moved to Quinn’s room. We gasped in surprise at the eyesore we saw when we moved into his room. It was exactly like mine, with clothes strewn all around and scattered. There were open drawers and books were upturned in an haphazard manner, leaving them lying face down on the floor.
This wasn’t a case of not tidying one’s room before leaving it. This was a search and a horrible search at that. This was an attack.
“I didn’t leave my room like this.” Quinn growled. He was pissed at the state of his room.
“We know.” The three of us said without hesitation. It wasn’t possible for Quinn to have left his room in a state of untidiness. Even if he had, it wouldn’t be as worse as this. I was left with no doubt that someone had scattered my own room. That wasn’t how I had left it. I felt less of a dirty girl at that realization. Who could have done that? I didn’t know any of the servants who could have done dared to do that.
“What is that person looking for?” John scowled.
“Maybe we should check every rooms and confirm if it was only Quinn’s and Mia’s rooms that were invaded.” Jack suggested.
“Nice idea.” We moved towards the other rooms and was shocked at what we found. Jack’s room was worse, scattered so bad that the person who would tidy it would curse all through while cleaning. John’s room was still better.
We glanced at one another and started running towards the study at the same time. We only had one thought in our heads. If our rooms were searched as badly as that, I didn’t think that the study was safe. Albert wasn’t safe. If the person that searched our rooms had barged into the study, he would have found him and that was a disaster I didn’t think we were all ready for.
We gasped as we found the study door wide open. Our hearts were thick with fear as we dragged our feet inside. With the way a door that was meant to be locked was thrown wide open, we were already waiting for the worst but we didn’t want to believe it. We wanted to confirm for ourselves and we sank to the floor as we saw the thing we had feared the most.
“No! Father!” Quinn screamed as he sank low to his knees, his fists clenched on his laps.
Just as we had feared, Albert had been taken.