I was inside the carriage with Meyrin. "If anything happens to me, you know what to do." I glanced over at her and she nodded her head. It was fairly simple, if something bad would have happened and she can't get a hold of me, she'd get her guns out and make the move. I'm not going to rely on Sebastian for help since he's on another mission.

I shifted my gaze everywhere to calm my nervousness that was rising. A warm, gentle hand was placed on my knee. I looked over at the hand and traveled my eyes up to Meyrin's face. She was smiling at me, feeling my uneasiness. "Don't worry. I am here to protect you from anything even if it means to risk my life." She reassured me, but I didn't want that.

"No. Don't risk yourself to die for me." I grabbed her hand into mine and stared deeply into her eyes. "I will not let you die for me. If it comes to that point, I'll risk my own life if it means you can live another day." Then I lowered my head down as my hair covered my face.

"No! You're pregnant!" She shouted.

"Won't Sebastian always come to save the day? And it won't be the same at the Manor if someone is dead. No one is irreplaceable." I smiled to myself, thinking now how I never really got to know the servants until now. I pulled her into a hug. "Please stay here. Having you with me will make Lance think he's not trustworthy even though he may not be. But I have faith in you that when your instinct tells you that I'm in danger, come and get me." I sweetly smiled one last time before departing from the carriage to his estate.

One of his servant came out to get me. "You must be Lady Elena?" The servant asked and I nodded with a small little smile on my face.

"Lance Greyston….is he-"

"He's waiting in the garden, Lady Elena. I'll show you the way." He bowed and I followed behind him as I looked around the estate.

There was a lot of roses in his estate. Not only red roses but pink, yellow, blue, and more. The red roses grew on the grey brick fence as it looked beautiful. It was the stand out of the whole estate. "Is your Master keen to roses?" I asked, looking up at the blue sky then down to view the big garden from afar.

"Yes, he is. He likes variety of roses. He'll take in any shapes or sizes because in his eyes, all roses are beautiful in their own way. That is what Greyston feels about people. No matter what flaws you have, he'll overlook it." The servant was swayed by his master as he spoke about him in such kind words. I can could already see roses falling down the servant.

"Wow. Very sentimental." I coughed out, not knowing what to reply back. I was in the state of confusion. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to see a different side from Lance or not, because the face he showed me was rudeness, impatient, and egotistic. "He must be different when he's at home and out at places…" I muttered for his servant not to hear me.

"Here we are, Lady Elena. The master is sitting over there." He pointed where I saw him.

"Thank you." I went off to Lance who was sitting in a brown chair with the matching color table beside him and the open chair for me. He sat near his maze garden, admiring it as he smile.

CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK.

"Um, Lance… I'm here." I announced myself awkwardly, standing in front of him, fiddling with my fingers.

"Sit down in that open chair." He suggested, wanting me to be comfortable as possible.

I did what he suggested and sat down on the chair. My heart was pounding from nervousness. It's not like everyday you get to meet a creepy person who won't stop bothering you. I placed my right have over my heart to breath out slowly. "There's no need to be nervous." I jolted from hearing his voice speaking out to me.

"Oh god…" I whispered.

Then I cleared my throat. "So, I heard that you can oversee people's flaws, am I right?" I started the conversation. I made eye contact with him to be polite and making him know that I'm paying attention to him.

"Yes. We all have our own flaws that we cannot change no matter how hard we try. Roses for me is a symbolic meaning of that."

"I can totally tell. Everything out here is decorated with roses in many shapes, sizes, and colors." I bit the insides of my lips as I made eye contact with him, but that was the mistake I shouldn't have done.

Lance stood up and offered me a hand. "Do you want to look around the maze garden?"

"It's a maze. I have to look around to find my way out." I took him hand and he helped me stood up. Lance didn't let go of my hand as his other free hand snaked around my waist, pulling me in closer to him. "Lance!" Using a lot of force to rip his fingers off of me, I struggled to do so because his fingers felt like heavy metal. "Don't forget that I am an engaged woman!" I hissed and glared at him. Feeling so disgusted that he doesn't care if you're engaged, married, or whatnot.

"I'm sorry, Lady Elena." He whispered down to my ear, before letting go. He stood his distance from me.

"Keep on making moves on me, I swear I'm going to slap the shit out from you." I threatened him. I don't want to be one of his victims that are violated by him.

Soon after that small and annoying incident, we were separated in the maze since he wanted to go first to 'demonstrate' but how can he 'demonstrate' if I can't see it. But it doesn't matter now since he's out of the way. The sharp whistle was heard that it was my turn to go through the maze and get out.

The first step inside the maze made my soul frightened. "Calm down…" I was alone and isolated from the outside as I saw the bushes rise before my eyes. I was at lost of how towering the bushes were. "This is not real… I'm just imagining it." I shook my head, still in a daze from what just happened.

The further I walked, hitting dead ends, turning back around to find another way, my head started to throb. I wasn't sure if it was the sun's radiation since it was said that today's forecast was sunny and hot.

"Shoot…." I huffed quickly, wiping my sweat off from my brows and continued to finish this damn maze that I got myself into. My throat was dry as I kept on swallowing my spit. I didn't understand how Lance got to finish this so quickly. Maybe it's because he has done it before.

It got hotter as the air was getting humid. It felt like a desert...so dry and waterless. I pleaded to give up. "Lance… I can't finish this! I'm going to die from a stroke or something…" My headaches are worse now than before. It hurt so much that I sat down than continue to finish the maze. I was so dehydrated. "Lance! Get your butt over here!" I screamed until I couldn't as I felt my throat closed up. If I try to talk, it's just like rubbing two dry things together to create a fire.

I laid on the ground as I stared at the hovering bushes. The throbbing increased that I eventually blackout from pain.