The Darkest Secret
An Hope Holmes Adventure Chapter XXVI
Faith Robin
In the early morning hours…
A knock sounds on the wooden door. A nun hurries forward to answer the door. She opens the peephole.
"May I help you Miss?" She asks. She sees a young girl with a red mark around her neck. Her voice is concerned for the girl's health.
"I need sanctuary," The girl whispers hoarsely as she shivers. The nun closes the peephole and opens the door to her.
"Yes come in, you poor thing." the nun says lifting her shawl to help shield the girl from the rain.
"Thank you," the girl whispers, her teeth chattering from the cold wind. Her hat and coat were drenched with rain water. I showed her to a room, and helped her remove her coat. She refused to give a name, and kept her hat intact. The nun left the room with a promise of tea. Leaving the girl to her thoughts and to relieve herself of her fear. The girl was now safe, now in the hands of the hidden walls of the nunnery, Fields of Juniper.
The next day…
The door was opened and I looked up. A familiar figure walked into the room and closed the door behind him.
"Hello Mr. Holmes," the man said.
"Professor how good to see you again," I said somewhat cheerily.
"The pleasure is all mine," The Professor said grimly.
"If you don't mind my asking how did you survive the falls?" I asked. He smirked and pulled something from his pocket.
"That is something I will keep to myself as for the subject of survival, I believe I have something that belongs to you," He said tossing it on the floor in front of me. I picked it up; it was in the shape of a heart. It was the locket that I gave Hope.
"What do you what Professor?" I asked gruffly my hand tightening on my daughter's necklace.
"I want what you want; I want my daughter safe and back in my arms. Where is she?" He questioned.
"I don't know where your daughter is. I haven't seen her since she was kidnapped from my home."I said looking up at him. "Leave my daughter out of this; she has nothing to do with what happened nearly seventeen years ago. She has nothing to do with your brother's death. And she most certainly has nothing to do with your daughter's disappearance."
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