Chapter 21
Worried all inning, Dapler finally irceived news, but it was had.
The buller personally canse to tell her,
“Ms. Miller, according to the surveillance footage, the snakelet left the
the study by climbing out the window and went straight for the front gate. The gate wasn’t
protected by a defensive barrier. The smakelet slipped out during the soldiers‘ stati change
“But don’t worry. Colonel Lester has already sent people to checabe closed–claculi television cameras. I’is sure we’ll know where the skelet went soon.”
Daphne sat on the conch, replaying the butler’s words in her mind again and apalıt
Where could the snakelet have gone? The city still had traffickers around. What if her child pot…
She didn’t dare think any further. She could only hope her child would be sale.
She still had one sitake egg, left as she had already lost the other.
she had to make sure she didn’t lose the temaining o
not she had no idea when the egg would hatch, she decides to take responsibility as a mother and stay with it mutil it died.
Still, she couldn’t help but wonder why the snakelet left though the window,
Was it because she had promised to see him the next day but ended up spending all her tine with Luzien?
She had avoided the snakelet out of feat. Had he gotten upset and disappointed in her and then left?
Daphne felt even more guilty thinking about that.
She blamed herself. It was her fault. It was her first time being a mother, yet she already had a rift with her child. She wasn’t a qualified mother at all
The more she thought about it, the sadder she became. A tear slid down her check
Just then Emma entered the room and couldn’t help but speakup, “Ms. Miller, please don’t be so upset, Colonel Lester is powerful. I believe he’ll bring your child back soon.”
“I hope so,” Daphine said, still lost in sadness.
Seeing her like this, Emma felt bad too, Daphne had always treated her kindly, and she wanted to help ease her worries. She could help with socow, but she wasn’t sure if Daple could handle it.
orries. She remembered hearing that drinking
She told Daphne her idea.
“Ms. Miller, I’ve never had any alcohol before, so I don’t even low what it tastes like. If you’d like to try, I can get some for you.”
Drowning her sorrows in alcohol? It was true that drinking sometimes helped people forget their troubles.
Daphne had tried drinking once before, when she did poorly on a test and her roommate took her out for drinks. It really had helped. The next day, she felt more at
ease.
She agreed to try it again.
When the alcohol arrived, though, Dapluse panicked,
She looked at the colorful bottles in front of her. “Are we sure these are drinks and not experimental potions?”
“Ms. Miller, I went to the wine cellar to get them. They said fruit–based wine taste the best look one bottle of each kind. Would you like to try?”
Emina poured Daphne a glass of wine.
As Daphne sipped the bright red liquid, she recognized it as grape wine siglt away.
Sering Emnia’s eager eyes, she realized Emma wanted a taste as well.
“Go ahead and uy it.”
“Thankyou, Ms. Miller. En immediately poured herself a glass.
They tried one bottle after another and ended up with different favorites.
Daphne preferred the grape wine, wille famia liked another fruit unique to the region. That happened to be Daphne’s least favorite, but Emina loved it.
For beastlin, the alcohol content infruit–based wines was inconsequential, but that was probably not the case for Dapluse.
fanana kepi drinking excitedly, while Daphne was already close to bring drunk.
By the time Lester arrived in the afternoon, he saw them slumped crookedly on the couch. He frowned slightly, aking, “Who let them drink?
To him, she w still like a child. Drinking too much could hurt her health.
The screen on the Robo staring outside trembled a bit. “They themselves chose to dalik.”
Lester immediately told someone to help Emina back to her mom Then, he carried Daphne to bed
They had prepared a hangover remedy, but she wouldn’t take
