Chapter 305: Little master has lost his mind
Daisy had not voiced it back then but she had a nagging suspicion that Si Yena was alive and she was the one responsible for Si family’s downfall.
’’I had asked Benjamin to look for her. I wanted to deal with her before she came back as a bigger problem but it all led to a dead end and piles of evidence that she was dead,’’ Ryle was consumed by his own troubles regarding his sister so he did not even get the time to doubt those things.
He never considered the possibility that those records of her death could be faked and perfected if Si Yena found herself a powerful backer. And even before he could think things through, Locke informed him of the DNA test results. Following that he had to come to Vegas.
’’Who could have known she was all out to marry my sperm donor?" Ryle frowned.
Daisy’s lips twitched. She went silent for a long time before speaking, ’’There have been clues all along. The first attack on us back in Shanghai, the assassination attempt at my apartment, then the scheme against Diana in Beijing at the Chen’s annual event, the pictures of you and your sister that were sent to mislead me...’’
Ryle nodded, paused for a moment before shaking his head, ’’The assassination attempt at your apartment was not Si Yena’s doing.’
’’Those men...’’
’’I know. They belonged to the same origin but it wasn’t Si Yena’s doing,’’ Ryle paused, ’’That woman is insane but she had a pattern. She targets the people around you. Somehow, you can track that down through her activities never once had she aimed a vicious attack at you.’’
Daisy frowned, ’’She might be saving me for the last.’’
Ryle’s lips thinned. He could not deny that possibility if the other party was someone like Si Yena. She had been holding grudges against Daisy for her entire life so it wasn’t impossible for her to have some designs on what she wanted to do to her. But she had to ask if he allowed her to harm a single hair on Daisy’s head.
’’Then, that incident...’’
’’It was Nathan’s doing,’’ Ryle coldly said, ’’I had this guess for a long time but now, I am certain. The man was testing how far he can control me. He does that often. If I have no one around me, he would send his people to deal with me...’’
Daisy’s eyes turned cold when she thought of the old scars on Ryle’s body. Perhaps, now, they were not a threat to him. But they gave him those scars when he was still growing, didn’t they? When he had yet to acquire power in his hands.
’’But they thought of you as a weakness of mine,’’ Ryle chuckled as he threw his head back. There was simmering rage in his heart that they had tried to even harm her, ’’They saw that you look so fragile by my side, in my arms but these fools never understood that my Daze is fragile like a bomb. You can take them all down before they blinked,’’ he played with her hair.
’’That works well for us,’’ Daisy smiled slightly.
Ryle returned the smile. That did not work well for him. They had touched his inverse scales when they extended their claws to where they shouldn’t and he had waited patiently for a long time. Now, the time to write off those grudges was nearing and he could not wait to see how they met their doom.
The aura around Ryle changed subtly.
Daisy frowned, reached out towards him and kissed his forehead.
That night when Daisy returned to the servant quarters, the room was empty. Maria was nowhere to be seen.
Just when Daisy got into bed, the door opened and Maria walked in, ’’Daze, you are back already,’’ she sighed in relief, ’’I looked for you everywhere but I could not find you at all. I thought you must be feeling upset.’’
’’Upset about what?" Daisy leaned back on the bed when the woman approached her and patted her shoulder comfortingly.
’’I know it must not be easy for you to get used to the job and then you have to handle my share of work because of my mistakes. I feel terrible about it...’’
’’You don’t have to. You have it worse already,’’ Daisy tapped her hand as she laid down on the bed, ’’Maria.’’
’’Yes?" Maria pulled the blanket over to her neck and turned to the side to look at her.
’’This new madam... did you know her before?’’
’’Hmm... I don’t think so,’’ Maria shook her head, ’’I also thought so when she hired me straight away but then I saw that she also hired you in a similar way. So, I was not an exception after all.’’
’’I see.’’
’’But why do you ask about it?" As Maria questioned, she started answering her own questions following that, ’’No matter what, she seems so kind to me. And it also looks like the Master is deeply in love with her so they might get together. It will be a good thing if she becomes the new madam. Don’t you think so?"
’’Mm,’’ Daisy turned to the side and closed her eyes but Si Yena’s words from the morning crossed her mind.
Masquerade party. Very well. She would look forward to it.
The next few days, it was rather quiet and peaceful in the Kingsley mansion. Nathan was mostly absent from the mansion and Si Yena had her meals in her room. Ryle mostly stayed in his room and kept to himself.
Occasionally, there would be loud noises of things crashing in his room. There was one time a servant was alarmed and went to check on him only to find that the man had swept off a flower vase in rage and he was holding another one in his hand, looking like he would throw it at him,
From that day on, there were rumors in the mansion that their little master has lost his mind in his confinement.
’’Ryle... wait..’’
