The next morning, I got word from Ravon that Alphonse and Archor were leaving for a work-related trip that would last through the next two weeks. Apparently their absence was due to some newly developed information regarding my family's situation, but as usual, I was kept in the dark as far as details were concerned. Half of the Hale's men were going with on this assignment, leaving me to Niklaus and a handful of bodyguards.
After patriarch of the Hale family had left the manor, others followed suit, one after another leaving me alone with the man who's made it his life's concern to ignore me unless I was in some sort of immediate danger. I slipped into a pink blush colored two piece swimsuit with a flannel to cover me up before I tip toed out of my bedroom. Ravon had told me that there w
