Charlotte’s POV
I moved as fast as I could towards the door before I closed it behind me, trapping the female, whose name I hadn’t bothered to learn, inside just as I had been.
The thought of knocking her out had crossed my mind. Still, I had decided against it, knowing that it would not serve me well as it would probably just end up wasting time, since I had the butler person to deal with. But as her shouts from inside the room grew louder, I knew I had made a mistake.
I took a quick moment to scan the cottage's layout and found that everything was an open plan. Besides the door to the room I had been locked in, the only other doors were to a room I assumed to be the bathroom and the door that led to the outside. There was a small window next to that door but nothing much else. There
