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"We will find her my Lord."
"I hope you are right."
"She is a fighter."
He chuckled. "Believe me that I know. That I know." Maria nodded and walked away leaving him to his thoughts. She walked to the living area. She saw Virginia and Lord Coulson sitting by the fireplace, talking. Maria cleared her throat. Both turned their head to her.
"Listen your the fifth maid wh-" Lord Coulson started but Maria cut him off.
"This is important! They took Natalia." Maria stammered
"Come again?" Virginia asked shocked.
"Natalia is kidnapped."
Natalia slowly opened her eyes, looking around. She was tied up on a chair in a dark room. Her eyes felt heavy, her throat was dry. Her body felt sore and she was hungry. Natalia tried to remember what happend. The last thing she remembers is walking through the halls of the castle, on her way to her chambers to take a nap. When she reached her door someone grabbed her from behind and put a handkerchief on her mouth and nose. After that everything went black.
Natalia heard footsteps and the door opened, revealing a woman with brown curly hair. She wore a blue silk dress. She did look familiar, but Natalia could not place her. The woman walked to her, stopping in front of Natalia. The woman smiled slightly. Natalia was sure she had seen the woman before.
"Natalia Romanova..."
"Who are you? Why am I here?"
"I am Katherina, the one Clinton actually should marry."
"Katherina.." She had heard that name before. Then it hit her. "You are one of Clinton's maids?"
"Not for long, because once I let my dear Lord know that you are dead I will be the one to comfort him. He will see that I am a appropriate Queen. We will marry and start a family." The words hurted Natalia more than she would admit.
"You are insane! He would never love you. You are nothing to him! Clinton probably does not even know you exists!" Katherina looked down at her angrily. Before Natalia knew what happend, Katherina slept her hard across her cheek. Natalia smiled on the inside, she needed to get under Katherina's skin. And it worked.
"You filthy whore! You think every men will fall for you! You play with them and then you kill them! If Clinton can love a whore than I can assure you he will love me! And I will not let Clinton die because of you! Just like you did to Re-.." Katherina stopped, realising she had said too much. Natalia realised who she referred. What was she to him? Katherina looked angry and sad at the same time.
"Reynold Seger? What was Reynold to you?" Katherina did not answer, she walked away, locking the door again.
Philip came stand next to his sad friend. Maria told him what had happend to Natalia. He did not like her but his friend did, Philip would do everthing to get Natalia back, just for Clinton. He hated to see his friend like this. Philip clapped him slightly on his back. Clinton turned his head to Philip and smiled sadly.
"I heard what happend. How can I help?"
"You do not have to help me Philip, I know you do not like her."
"You are my friend Clinton, and for some reason you love her."
"You wanne know that reason?" He said smiling. Philip nodded and Clinton continued."Natalia and I have a history together."
"Do tell me."
"I met Natalia in the forest of the Romanova Kingdom. I was 16 years old, she was 13. We became close friends and spoke to eachother every day. I knew I was falling for her, but I told her when we first met that I was someone else. I thought that if I tell her who I was, she would become a love-sick girl who wanted me for my money. But that was before I know who she was. Afters she told me that she was the daughter of Lord Romanova, I could not tell her I lied. She did not trust people easily so if I told her, she would hate me."
"What happend?"
"We were in love. Two years later we decided to run away together to start a new live. I could not come to the forest the day we would run away. It was the day my Father became sick. I became the Lord of my Kingdom, and after that we never saw eachother. I always send a maid, to keep an eye on her."
"Why did you never visited her?"
"I was going to, but than she married. I was too late."
"So is it true? She killed her husbands?"
"Yes but I made her to, I left her while she was pregnant and went to a miscarriage al alone! Is it that strange that after that she did not believed in love anymore?"
"She was pregnant and you left?!" Philip souned surprised and disappointed at the same time.
"I did not know she was pregnant!"
"Good Lord... I am sorry Clinton. I will do everything in my power to help you."
"Thank you." They stood in silence, waiting for detective Fury to arrive. 15 minutes past before Clinton spoke again. "The person who kidnapped her, must work in the castle." Clinton realized suddenly. "Why did I not realise that sooner?!"
"You lost me Clinton, do explane."
"No body except for the people who are in this castle know about the betrothal."
"Well that is the information I was looking for." A unfamiliar voice said. Philip and Clinton turned, happy to see that the unfamiliar voice belongs to detective Fury.
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