Fore note: This is the original chapter of this story that my friend and I co-wrote. I tried to revise it to be like the first 4 Chapters but I don't have time. I'm really sorry but if you still get the story and would like to keep it this way tell me or if you people want, I can revise to the second version (the first 4 chapters). Enjoy.

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Chapter 6: Deception and Betrayal?

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When reaching the Kenix's house, they saw a lot of soldiers there. Sitting on a large chair with another woman, Kenix furiously looked at the soldiers who ransacked her house. Crouching near Kenix, the young woman was seemly dismayed. Some servants gave the soldiers their frightened looks. Vivian was surprised, "What happened?"

A soldier politely answered, "We were ordered to search Frankie's house, Your Highness."

"Searching Frankie's house? For what?" Vivian asked.

"For his corpse, Your Highness." The soldier politely answered.

Vivian angrily ordered, "Stop it. And leave here immediately. Ask your commandant to meet me right now."

The soldiers abashedly glanced at together, "We…."

"Are you deaf? Prince Vivian wants to talk with your commandant. Go and find him." Andrew loudly said.

"I am their leader. I am here at your command, Your Highness." Vic seriously said.

"You ordered them to search here, didn't you? Why did you do that? We aren't sure that Frankie died, so we don't have any right to thoroughly check their house." Vivian frowned. "I know we are competing, but don't make it become serious. Don't you see your soldiers are frightening every body here?"

"I am sorry because my soldiers made them scared. But I can't leave here before searching thoroughly. This is Lord McNeil's command." Vic tried to control himself, "Although we are in competition, but I've never use any trick to get advantage."

"How do you dare to disobey Prince Vivian?" Andrew was furious.

Vic didn't know how to made both the Prince and his assistant calm down. He had to do whatever his Lord asked him. While contacting with the Prince, Vic noticed that Prince Vivian was smart and kind. He treated everybody like his friends. At that point, Vic felt uncomfortable when remembering Vivian treated Zoë very intimately. 'He would be a good King. Why does Lord McNeil opposed him?' Vic asked himself.

Alec taped Vic's shoulder, "Do what your Lord ask and pay attention to your soldier. Remember that you are searching, not ransacking?" Seeing Vivian's hatred look, Alec tried to ignore the prince, 'It seems that the prince and I were born to become enemies to each other.'

Vivian angrily glanced at Alec, 'How dare he support the disobeyer? I really want to fire this traitor. But I can't prohibit Victor to carry on Lord McNeil's decision.' She sighed, "OK, do your duty. Don't make anybody dismayed. I want to talk with Kenix again. Can you and your soldiers leave this room a while."

"Thank you for your understanding." Vic smiled.

"Wait a minute, please. Can you find two persons for me? I want to know their names and where they live now as soon as possible." Vivian gave Vic two pictures she sketched this morning based on her memory and Alec's help.

Suddenly, a soldier accidentally dropped a china cup to the wood floor and that cup was broken. Kenix's face became pale. She gazed at the cup and was going to cry. Seeing Kenix knelt on the cold floor to collect the pieces of the broken cup, Vivian could read her desperation through her face. "Are you alright, Mrs. Baldwin?" Vivian gently asked.

Kenix didn't answered Vivian's question as if all her mind only focused on the broken cup. She wrapped all the pieces on her handkerchief carefully after checking the floor to make sure that she didn't lost any piece.

A soldier shouted at Kenix, "Bitch, why didn't you answer the Prince's question."

Vivian angrily said, "Shut your dirty mouth up, and get out of here right now."

A group of three including two men and one woman politely saluted Vivian and her assistants, "I am honor to meet you and your assistants, Your Highness."

Seeing Vivian was surprised, a man introduced himself "We are Frankie's younger brothers and sisters. I am Trevor. This is Lucas, and Anna. The one near my sister in law is Gigi. I am glad that you came here to take care of our case. Your intelligence will return justice to my brother. Who killed my brother have to be punished hard."

Vivian frowned. She really hated who praised her too much, "How do you know your brother was killed? We still didn't find his body yet."

Three of them became abashed. "We don't know. But we felt." Anna said.

"So, you just guess, right? Don't give any conclusion until we find his body." Andrew asked.

After standing up, Kenix tiredly said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

"Don't thank me because I helped you nothing. You look very devastated, Mrs. Baldwin." Vivian concerned. "You should take a rest now."

"Thank you for your concerning. I have to go to our shop right now to draw the final balance sheet of this month with my husband's brothers and sister."

"If you leave now, who will show us the house?" Alec asked.

"Or one of you stay here to help us to find your brother's body?" Andrew asked Frankie's siblings. They exchanged their glances, "But we need to go with Kenix, we…"

"I see all of you like to calculate money more than to find your brother." Andrew mocked them

"Gigi, my husband's sister will guide you around the house." Kenix introduced the young woman to Vivian and left there with Franco, Lucas, and Anna.

Gigi shyly asked, "What can I do for you?"

Andrew gave Gigi a friendly smile, "Please, show us your house."

Gigi nodded gently, "Please, follow me." She led them to each room.

"This is my brother's room." Gigi timidly said.

"Can we look at inside a while?" Vivian asked.

"Yes, Your Highness." Gigi seriously answered and her eyes rooted on the ground.

"Call me Vivian, Gigi." Vivian gently asked. Looking around the room, they couldn't find any special evident. "Does the room change something from the day your brother leave here?"

"No, Your… Vivian." Gigi was too shy to give a long answer.

Alec opened the wardrobe and checked it, "I don't see Mr. Baldwin clothes here. Did he take all clothes with him when he was on his trip."

"No, my brother just took a few clothes because he didn't want his luggage to be heavy. Kenix has washed them each week since he left here because she wants my brother to have fresh clothes when he come back." Gigi explained. "She just washed them this morning, so that why you can't see my brother clothes in the wardrobe."

Vivian and Andrew smiled when seeing Gigi could talk more with them. "Gigi, I have a curious question. Why did Kenix seemly love the broken cup very much?" Vivian asked

"My brother purchased a china set including two cups and a teapot on their wedding anniversary last year. Kenix loves them very much." Gigi answered.

"I see. Thank you Gigi. We finish here. Can we visit your garden?" Vivian amusedly asked.

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Seeing the garden, three of them were very surprised. It was very wonderful with many beautiful and rare flowers and trees. The gardener must take care of the garden with the whole-hearted. They couldn't find a wild grass on the pathway. The lawn was cut carefully. Andrew pointed the roses, "Vivian, they are so beautiful. Do you want some for Princess Vicki?"

"Andrew, don't cut them before asking Gigi and the gardener." Vivian prevented Andrew.

"Take any flower and as much as you want. I glad you like it." Gigi enjoyable said. Her face became vivid, not pale and passive as before.

"Thank you, Gigi." Vivian smiled. She looked around; the wonderful camellia that was difficult to grow in the Briton attracted her eyes. She still remembered how many times her gardeners tried to grow that flower but they failed completely. She was walking to it and was going to cut some camellia flowers.

"Oh no." Gigi shouted.

Vivian was stunned by Gigi's weird attitude, "Sorry. I don't know that I can't have this camellia."

Gigi abashedly bent her head down, "I …."

"That's fine, Gigi. We should leave here now. See you later." Vivian tried to comfort Gigi who returned to her passive attitude as before.

Gigi still stood immobile near the camellia flowers as if her mind went to a different world.

They gave Gigi a last glanced and then walked toward the main gate.

"She is really weird." Alec shrugged his shoulder.

"Yeah. She acted as that camellia is her child or lover." Andrew nodded, "She is pretty, but so pale and shy. Viv, what do you think about her?"

"Me? She seems to have a miserable past and she is still overwhelmed by it. I wondered what happened to her?" Vivian frowned.

"How do you think about other his siblings?" Andrew asked.

"Although they acted as if they love Frankie and want to protect him, but they really want his oldest brother died." Alec gave his opinion.

"Of course, they want him to die and their sister-in law is the murderer, so they can take over the Baldwin's heritage." Vivian said. "These bastards really offended my eyes."

"Do both of you think if one of them killed Frankie and blamed it on Kenix?" Andrew asked.

"May be." Both of Vivian and Alec answered at the same time. Vivian cleared her throat, "So we need to know their information thoroughly including their pasts, their present, how they make to live. Do you know what we have to do now?"

"It's clear, Viv. I think Vic will provide us some. If not enough, we can ask their neighbors, their servants, their friends, and their enemies." Andrew enthusiastically said.

Alec looked at both Vivian and Andrew. 'They don't have any empty fame. The rumors of their smart are right."

They carefully analyzed information they got. "Trevor Baldwin, 28 years old. Occupation: none. He has one pretty wife name Emily and one 2-year-old daughter named Susan. His wife uses to spend lavishly and complain that her husband doesn't give her enough money and any expensive jewelry although Baldwin family possesses a big jewelry shop. She also warns Trevor that if that situation is unchanged, she will divorce him. Their neighbor told me that he loves his wife very much." Alec looked at Vivian, "So, that Trevor has a motive to kill Frankie. Because he is second son in Baldwin's family, if Frankie die, he will inherit all the fortune."

"The third son in the Baldwin's is Lucas. He is 26 year old. Occupation: art collector. But his business seems not to work well. He borrowed a lot of money and isn't ability to pay off it. He didn't get married yet, but he already engaged last year with one of his creditors. His future father in law, Mr. Philippe, threatened Lucas that he would get her daughter back if Lucas didn't return the loan." Andrew shrugged her shoulder,

"This one also has a motive to kill Frankie. But based on the Briton's rule, only the first son inherits his family heritage. So if he kills Frankie, the one who will get benefits is Trevor, not him. Therefore, I don't think he is so stupid to do that, except…"

"Except Trevor promises that he will share Lucas the fortune if they succeed, right?" Vivian continued, "or he killed Frankie accidentally when asking Frankie about money."

"You are right." Alec nodded.

"Of course, I'm always right." She proudly said. "Anna is the fourth child in that family. She is 24 years old and didn't get married yet. She falls in love with Lawrence but he just loved Kenix. The servants told that her temper is very bad and cruel. Sometimes, they heard that she cursed Kenix and wanted her sister in law to be hanged. Therefore, although she doesn't have any motive to kill Frankie, she has a motive to hurt Kenix, her revival in love. Maybe, she didn't murder her brother, but she know who did it." Vivian concluded.

They glanced to the last file, Gigi's information. "You are right, Viv. Poor girl. She was rapped by one of their gardeners, Thomas Simpson two years ago. There are some rumors that she got pregnant after that, but fortunately, she was miscarried. Since that terrible accident, she changed completely to a shy and passive girl."

"How about the gardener?" Alec asked.

"He was hanged after his crime." Vivian answered. "Tonight, we continue watching our primo suspects: both Lawrence and Kenix. So take a rest now." Vivian suggested.

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"Viv, can I come in?" Vicki knocked the door and asked,

"Of course, Vicki." Vivian answered.

"Viv, do you forget what you promised me?" Vicki sniveled.

"I still remember, Vicki. Reading your new poems, right?" Vivian tried to hide her tiredness. "Do you want stay here or go to the garden?"

"Go to the garden, Viv. Tonight is full moon. I like to read poems under moon lights." Vicki smiled.

"Viv, you should take a rest. I will go with princess." Andrew proposed.

"I don't need you to accompany me." Vicki angrily said.

"Let me go with Princess." Vivian held Vicki's hand, "Let's go, Vicki."

Vicki abashedly let her hand in Vivian's hand. A warm feeling ran around her body and her mind. She really wanted her cousin to hold her hand forever.

Andrew gave Vivian a pity look, 'I don't know how long Vivian can stand with this weird situation.'

Alec came back his room, 'this prince is an amorous young man as rumors. After working whole day and last night, he still continues flirting with Princess Victoria."

The Wellington's region:

"How about her?" A masked man asked the Lord Wellington's physician.

"She seems to be better. She can recognize some simple things." The physician answered.

"Did you report it to Lord Wellington?" The man in mask asked.

"No. I am waiting for your order." The physician answered.

"That's good. You can tell him the truth if he asks you." The mysterious man said.

"I heard the Princess went to the Lord McNeil because of Prince Vivian, right?" The physician politely asked.

"Yes. But it's not your business. I don't know why the Queen allowed Victoria to do that. Remember, report me her health situation usually." The masked man left the forest.