Sophia observed the maids for the next two days watching their every movement and how well she had timed them seemed to be practically accurate.
Today she’d mapped out a good plan so she bit her nails and walked around her room for hours looking out at the destroyed maze and vast compound.
When she heard the knock of the maid, she quickly scrambled into the closet.
The maid knocked and knocked before saying she was coming in.
Sophia held her breath as the maid called for her and when she knew she was soon going out to likely call the guard outside.
She softly said she was in the closet.
She opened the door a little, poking her head through to find a young looking girl standing next to her book on the bed.
The tray of food was already on the bed since the closest table was by the door.
Her eyes twitched in amusement.
She must like books.
She was distracted.
A good start.
“Please can you help zip up my dress?” She asked, struggling with her zipper she’d dragged down, pushing the door wide for her to enter and then go to stand in front of the mirror.
The young beautiful girl’s eyes left the book and went to her, nodding, she got into the room with Sophia who muttered she forgot a pin for the dress in her room and ran to bring it, closing the door behind her.
When she came out, she locked the door from the outside.
While confined in her cage, she swept through every nook and cranny of the room and found a key which was able to lock and unlock the room doors including the closet, toilet and room. New chapters come out on NovelPing first.
Maybe the owner held the rest but she didn’t care how he built his house, she only needed to leave the room.
She locked the door with the key and sprinted to her room door, exhaling before hauling the door open.
The guard swiftly raised his head and stared at her with what are you doing out of your room?
Eyes.
She coyly smiled and then when she realised herself she frowned and her face turned sour and somber, pointing her hands backwards into the room she frantically said “I…I…don’t know she…fainted while helping me fix my dress and…and” she swallowed, her voice shaking and her hand waving signs in the air “please can you go check her. I don’t know come help me—”
She didn’t even finish her sentence when he busted into her room and she acted like she was following after him before dashing out the door.
Her breath laboured as she fiddled with the lock and it finally clicked signaling her final success on her escape.
She beamed walking backwards before turning and racing towards the first stairs she saw.
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“…make sure the shipment goes to the safe house. No one should go missing. I will be there tomorrow to look at it myself. Don’t tell anyone that” Luca groaned as he sighed papers with his right hand.
The burns in his hands didn’t look like it was healing but the doctor had said it was.
“Shit. I need to be out of this bed in the next few days” Luca threw the papers for his consigliere and he caught it.
“The doctor said you’d have to stay in bed at least three weeks before you’re able to do big work with your right hand. That’s not very far from now—”
“But I’m here”
His consigliere shook his head at his boss’s outburst and his eyes roved his body that was covered in bandage but majorly his right hand.
His hand had burned while taking out the fire, a third degree burn that left him bedridden.
Grumbling on every single thing and in all, he continuously asked about Sophia and made sure she didn’t come near his wing.
“How is she?”
Knowing who he was talking about, his consigliere shifted on his feet, he didn’t have any information about her but knew she was fine and eating and not causing any form of trouble even with her locked up.
“She is fine”
“I know she is fine, why wouldn’t she?
What I mean is what has been up to.
What has she been doing lately Angelo?” Luca sat up, his arm straining but he didn’t care and tried coming down the bed and his consigliere moved to help him but he held his finger up “what has she been doing with her free time” before he came for her.
Luca smirked at that thought.
He was coming for her if he heals, she had a lot to pay.
She has a lot to pay for.
His maze was ruined to ashes and almost left him in ashes too but he was in time to run out.
But not her, she was not running away from him and he wasn’t letting her go.
She couldn’t take care of herself.
Only for just a few days he intended to stay away from home and focus on the mafia and the Albanians with the trouble the bratva had coming and she resolved to this.
Going to the maze she knew nothing about.
Trying to goad him to chase her out of his house.
He licked his lips, thinking how he was going to teach her a lesson.
She was wrong and going nowhere.
Her punishment was coming but first “how is she doing? Has she been asking about me?” That he needed to know.
“She’s been doing fine and—”
The door creaked open slowly announcing the presence of someone coming in, Luca pulled his gun from under his pillow same with Angelo behind his back however they didn’t expect the person.