Babel Novel
I Can’t Let You Risk Your Life
When Brigitta came back, she packed all the empty dishes on the table including the poisoned tea to the kitchen and washed them all. As for the poisoned tea, she just poured it away.This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.
Just when she was done washing, she turned and saw Ragnar Marshall standing by the door, “I may need you to sleep on my bed this night.”
“Why?” She corrected quickly, “why sir?”
“My nightmares are getting worse.” He confessed. The first time she had slept beside him overnight, his sleep was peaceful. Perhaps, she’s the antidote for his terrible sleeping habit. He suffers from insomnia and when he managed to sleeps, he would be hunted by all sorts of terrible nightmare.
“Okay, sir.” She said. She watched him turn from him and walked away. But she smiled, at least, he thinks of her. Knowing that gladdens her. Breaking an ice isn’t easy, so is breaking an icy heart. It won’t be easy but at least, it’s breakable. She can’t wait for the day when Ragnar Marshall will truly warm up to her in the most affectionate way.
Cassie who was spying and setting her hear keenly to what Ragnar had to say to Brigitta was furious when she overhead what Ragnar said and it troubles and angers her at the same time. She appeared from nowhere and walked up to Ragnar as he walked outside, “sir, I am also done dressing and heading to work, perhaps, we can go to work together.”
She quickly added, “that reminds me, our baby is fine now. He has a very strong immune system.”
There was only just three days left for the month to finish, Ragnar Marshall hoped that the son may truly be lucky. Perhaps, Cassie’s child wouldn’t die. But beyond if the child will survivor not, he, in all honesty did not feel any connection or affection towards the boy.
Even Brigitta’s kids that aren’t his, he seems to have this unexplainable affection for each of those five kids. Perhaps, he didn’t feel any connection towards Cassie’s child cause he thought the baby would not make it pass nine months.
“Aren’t you ashamed you are my mistress? Being a mistress is not dignifying in any way. I’m amazed you accepted that position.” He said.
“I don’t have a choice, sir. I don’t mind being a slave as long as I can be close to my child’s father. I want my child to be raise properly. I didn’t ask for this, sir. I was just a victim.” She lowered her head.
Ragnar Marshall observed her and almost had pity for her. He had taken advantage of her without knowing.
“Let’s go.” He said and they both began to walk out together.
As if Cassie knew Brigitta was watching, she turned and when she saw Brigitta, she pouted her lips and walked away proudly with Ragnar Marshall.
Brigitta smiled. She felt like Cassie was so immature. Did Cassie thinks she will be moved just because she saw her going to work with Ragnar Marshall? She scoffed and went to pick up a few things inside then went to work.
When she was done with work, she went straight to her training ground and on meeting with Beocca, she tendered her greatest trouble to him, “uncle, you must help me as regarding this.”
“What you are asking me to do is dangerous.” Beocca said. He added, “of course, I can get a few men and storm Alex’s mansion, then help Nikolai escape. But what if Ragnar finds out?”
“How will he find out except one of the men that went with you tell him?” Brigitta said.
“The men aren’t the issue. My men are loyal and would do what I order either it’s right or wrong. My concern is Alex and his men, they are the one who can cause an uproar that may reach the ear of Ragnar Marshall.”
“Then we can silence them all.” Brigitta suggested.
“Yes, but that is if we overpower them. What if they overpower us? We wouldn’t be able to save Nikolai yet, Ragnar Marshall would still find out I lead men out without his consent.” He said, “Ragnar Marshall had just been betrayed by Rollo, I don’t want to be another betrayal. I serve him with my life.”
“Do you know I’m Ragnar Marshall’s wife, I love him just as much as you love him, uncle. But this is very important, Nikolai had been in Alex’s custody for more than a year, I must save him.” She said and added, “If not because of me, Nikolai wouldn’t have been in the bad book of Alex. Nikolai was trying to save me when he ended up getting into a fight with Alex.”
She continued, “please uncle. If I do not save him quickly, he will be taken to Maridonna.”
“Does it matter, we have a plan to attack Maridona soon, we can save him during that time,” Beocca said.
“We don’t even know when that will be. By ‘soon’ you probably mean next two or three years cause my training alone is one year.” She said.
“We have spies at Maridona, they will let us know when to attack. Could be before this year ends and it could be after a decade. But we don’t attack blindly, we attack after finding weak points of our enemies and seeing how we can leverage on it to defeat them.” Beocca explained.
She walked closer to Beocca, “uncle, you are the only one who can help. Do this and I’ll owe you my life.”
“Stop!” Beocca looked away, it wasn’t easy for him. “Let’s get to training.” He said.
The training lasted until 10PM after which she was extremely tired. While Beocca was leading her to his car, he said to her, “I’ll attack Alex.”
She paused and looked at him excitedly, “thank you so much, uncle. I’ll never forget it.”
“But my fate lies now in the hands of God.” Beocca added. “Once I drop you home, myself and a few men will attack.”
“No way. I’m following you.”
“Huh? You can’t even handle a sword yet, talkless of a gun. Just go home and leave the rest to me. Plus if Ragnar Marshall can’t find you at home, he may suspect.”
“I can’t let you risk your life because of me, uncle. Let’s go together.”
Beocca knew that trying to convince her to go home would be difficult so he gave up and said, “then you must follow my instructions and put your two days training to use.”
“Got it!” She smiled and excitedly followed him back to the training arena.