My Dear Duke(BL)
Chapter 34: Kidnapped

Chapter 34: Kidnapped

’I slept well. Maybe a little too much.’

Asher, who finally woke up from a long sleep, stretched his body and yawned again.

He slept too much unlike any other day.

’Could it be because of sex? Or was it because I was exhausted?’

Whatever the reason, he never really slept for days before. So this was quite serious. Since it had never happened before, he guessed this must be related to his heat.

’Damn heat. My ass was on fire really back then. Ugh!’

He hated those heats. How good would it be if they never came again? Sigh...Asher knew very well he was going to experience this exact same cycle once again, so he scoffed and got ready to go to work.

The servants always have breakfast before going to work. However, it was almost daytime then and he knew there might not be anything left in the kitchen until lunchtime came. So he skipped breakfast and left for the mansion to see his little Miss.

Asher was surprised to see some new servant sneaking inside Anne’s room through the half-opened door. Usually, no servant comes up unless to serve food or something important as they are afraid of their miss.

Asher silently got close to the man and tapped on his shoulder.

"Aaagh!"

The person quickly looked back and took a step back when he saw Asher there. For some reason, he looked suspicious and Asher watched mercilessly as the person fell with the slip of his foot.

"Why are you sneaking around? It’s disrespectful and inappropriate."

Asher asked in a cold voice when he saw the person very nervous.

"I...I was just worried about her since no one was coming to help her. I wanted to go inside and greet her but I was nervous."

The young man got up quickly and explained. But his voice trembled and Asher felt like he was lying.

"I will take care of her. You can go."

Asher didn’t say anything else. So he asked him to leave and that young man left with quick steps.

’Sigh...He looks weirdly suspicious.’

Asher watched him disappear and opened the door to step inside. But only for him to suddenly freeze...

The room was a mess. The broken window. The shattered teacup. A piece of cloth which seemed to be from Anne’s gown.

And the piece of paper with a warning.

You will never see her again.

Panicked, Asher ran down to see the duke.

"Duke! Duke!"

Asher pounded on the door until Felix asked him to come in. The duke looked visibly tired but he acted all tough so it might be Asher’s eyes playing tricks on him.

Whatever, Anne was the important matter right now.

"I think Miss Anne was kidnapped!"

Asher gave the note to Felix and explained what he saw.

"Catch that servant."

Felix put his every work aside and went to find that servant who would explain what was going on as he looked suspicious according to Asher.

And what was he sneaking? Anne wasn’t even there by the time Asher was there.

However, that servant was nowhere to be seen. From what Mary said, all the servants were gathered and Asher still couldn’t see that one. Which meant that one was not a servant there at all. He had come from outside. With the little knowledge they have, it might not be easy to find that man.

And Anne?

How are they going to find Anne?

Felix was losing his mind.

He didn’t really want to think Anne wrote this note there and ran away to plan something.

It could be that she was really kidnapped.

But how could anyone kidnap her? She was powerful enough to kill anyone and it just doesn’t add up. Like the time when she was kidnapped and Asher saved her.

’She is doing it on purpose! Yesterday! Right! She acted all weak and pitiful to show up in front of that bastard. He is already looking for a weakness to hit me on. Fuck! She must have showed up there on purpose. Wanting to be a prey and then hunt them when they take her away!’

Slowly realising Anne’s plan, Felix didn’t know whether to worry or be angry.

The only thing he could do was to go and see count Belk.

Asher also stuck along with the duke as he was the only one to see that suspicious person who could give them a clue. If they were to see him again, Asher could recognise him so Felix asked Asher to follow him.

They both got on a carriage and left to count Belk’s place.

But surprisingly or maybe not, Count Belk was away for official work.

Felix was losing his temper at that point. No matter what, he was worried about his sister. He needed to find Anne as soon as possible.

Felix didn’t know where else to go. He was confident that Count Belk must be with Anne since Anne wanted that and Count Belk also seemed to have wanted that.

Without knowing where to go, Felix came back to his mansion and asked his guards to look for Anne in the city everywhere they could.

It was better to have many people to help rather than him going around the city, wasting time.

While he waited for news, Bill came to see him, running with a letter in his hand.

"Duke! We found Miss Anne!"

Asher jumped up excitedly hearing the news. But Bill looked frustrated which shouldn’t be as they should be happy to find their kidnapped miss.

"Where?"

"The royal guards took her!"

Asher didn’t understand anything. But Felix kept questioning Bill to get to know the situation.

"Why?! Why did the royal guards get involved?"

Felix felt his heart thumping for a moment. Did she get caught?!

"It happened to be that she was kidnapped by some human traffickers. It said some grand duke’s daughter was also kidnapped at the same time and he had sought help from the emperor to find his daughter. When they found her, she was not alone. There were around 50 children. Miss Anne was also there."

Felix was relieved that she wasn’t caught. But what Bill said didn’t make any sense to him.

"Human traffickers don’t leave messages when they kidnap anyone. There must be something wrong."

"Well, I don’t know about that sir. It happened to be.. all this while, it was the group of count Belk that had led this business."

"Count Belk?"

"Yeah. And there were a few more counts who had joined that business. It said the emperor had ordered to catch them and serve them the death penalty."

Asher could see Felix frown and think something upset mindly.

’He said he stopped selling children. That bastard! He still does that.’

Felix angrily cursed the count Belk while he tried to contain his emotions from running wild.

This was also how he was involved in this mess with Count Belk.

He was also kidnapped by human traffickers when he was a child. Even though he was saved later, before that, he had to go through very terrible things that left him traumatised, until now.

And that was also count Belk. The past was a long story and everything about it made him feel sick.

"Sigh...So when can we get Anne?"

"The royal guards took all the children. Their guardians have to come and pick them up. "

"Okay. Then let’s go first."

Felix got on the carriage along with Asher again.

This time, Asher thought he didn’t need to go there since they found who kidnapped Miss Anne.

However, Asher was quite suspicious about this whole thing.

If it was a group that always kidnaps kids or people, then why would they leave a note that feels like a personal attack? To distract them? It somehow made Asher feel things are not as it sounds.

Whatever! None of these were his business. So, he silently accompanied the duke since the duke asked Asher to come with him.

’At least we found Miss Anne safe. That’s enough.’