My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Dunn followed Wynn and the others, while Emma and Aaron followed closely behind.

Hendrix and I were some distance behind.

Walking side by side through the corridor, we enjoyed some alone time together. As I looked at the thin boy who had fallen to the back of the line. All sorts of feelings welled up in my heart as I sighed, "He's still so young. He doesn't know what it means to be a servant. Isn't it rather selfish of us to make an agreement with him where he has to protect Aurelia with his life?"

I didn't object to Hendrix's good deed, but he had made the agreement under very unfair terms. Although this was for Aurelia's sake, we couldn't guarantee if the boy would get wounded one day and develop evil thoughts once he had grown up.

"And," After a brief pause, I continued solemnly, "I feel that there's more to him than it seems. Although he looks like a child, he isn't as innocent as one. He's like a deep, stagnant pool of water...

Just like that person.

While I was lost in thought, I felt my shoulder being wrapped in a warm familiar feeling. I turned around and saw Hendrix's hand holding onto my shoulder, pulling me into his embrace.

"Aurelia has a pure and innocent nature. We have to be very careful to preserve it." Hendrix took very good care of me and took each step forward steadily. He said this easily, which reassured me. "No one can stop my daughter from growing up peacefully. In a few days time, I will find a suitable opportunity to send the child away. At that time, I will need you to cover for me."

He had already taken everything into consideration.

I smiled and agreed, "If necessary, it's fine for me to be the bad guy here. Aurelia isn't very close to you. She shouldn't be estranged from you over this."

each other. Only then

lowered his head and smiled without saying anything. I wonder if

worried. Aurelia paid much more attention to

moment he entered the house, Hendrix instructed the servants to get the

It made me uneasy.

much

the first

the abyss. You might get to know just the bare minimum about a person but be completely oblivious to

it over, I called

ruffled his freshly washed hair and said with

nodded and agreed without saying a word. "Mommy, what

a moment,

ear, "Aurelia has been playing a lot today. Cangou think of a way to send her to her room

Wynn agreed

stone

be playing with a toy.