“My lady, I do not need money, I want to tell you that you are not alone! There are many others like you.” Hazel furrowed her brows as she did not understand what the amid was talking about but she was looking.. Unnerved. Though she was not looking straight into the eyes of Hazel, she was farting a lot and her knuckles had turned white due to the force she was putting in holding her apron.
Hazel was sure it would only be a matter of seconds before the dress would torn.
“I did not get you. But the money is for your family. So, you do not need to think much about it. Keep it for your daughter or son.“ The words worked like a trigger and the woman who was still holding on to her sanity broke down.
Tears started to fall from her eyes and soft sobs left her mouth. She shook her head as she looked at the coin as if it was mocking her for her incompetence surprising Hazel who took a step back from the woman who looked like she was having an episode of mental disbalance.
“My.. my daughter! She was only sixteen. She.. she wanted to see the world and marry the man she loved when she grew up.. But.. she.. Everything is over for her. She couldn’t bear it. It is all my fault..
I am not a good mother. If only I had stopped it. If only I had been stronger!” the words were incoherent due to her muffled cries.
The woman had fallen on the ground and covered her face with her both hands as she shook her head while continuing to mutter the words. She was talking more to herself than to Hazel who looked bewildered but she understood one thing that the maid was suffering because of the problems of her daughter.
Did she come here to ask for help? The thought brought another wry smile on the face of Hazel who needed help from others for her survival.
When she could not even survive herself, what right did she have to offer help to others? She mocked herself in her heart as she felt that by helping others, she was only deceiving herself that she was strong enough just like she had deceived everyone in the palace of vampires when she had gone there for the first time.
“I can not understand you. But if you are here asking for help, then tell me what you need. If you need more money for her treatment or her dreams, then I can offer you more coins.
You do not need to worry and act like that.” Hazel fumbled with her bag and took out a few more gold coins when the woman raised her head in shock but more tears continued to come out of her eyes.
She did not know why, but she did not like the gaze of the woman who was staring at her like a lifeless soul, who had lost everything in her life.
She felt overwhelmed looking at the hopeless eyes of the woman who cas crying her heart out just a few minutes ago.
“Here, you can have it all!” one thing that Hazel did not lack was money, so she felt not at all troubled as she took the whole pouch of gold coins and passed it to the maid who was behaving strangely.
Her face was covered with tears and her lips were muttering slowly but they were so incoherent that Hazel did not understand a thing.
In the end, she took a deep breath and smiled bitterly while more tears continued to fall from her eyes, “it is too late, my lady. Money can not save her anymore.” she took a deep sigh as her eyes filled with longing and nostalgia but then her eyes burnt and she stared back at Hazel with determination.
“My daughter was a young girl with so many dreams, my lady. She wanted to fly high. Since she was my only child, I gave her all the freedom, forgetting that girls need to be protected in the house.
If they were left free in the sky, hunters would find about them and burn their wings so that they could never fly again.,
My daughter wanted to study medicine. A rare and luxurious dream i say since neither woman nor commoners study medicines and unfortunately she was both.
I brought her here to work with me, hoping that she would forget about her foolish dreams when she would see harsh reality.
But I did not know how that cruel prince came to know about my daughter. She was so innocent that she believed that he would help her.
I told her to forget about those dreams and work but she stopped listening to me. She started trusting lord Vincent words more than me and in the end, she left the place to live here.
She.. she..” more tears filled her eyes as if she could not even bear to spell the rest of the words as she closed her eyes and cried again.
Hazel crouched down on the ground, even if she would not listen, she could guess what would have happened. That scumbag must have used her and then threw her away like a ragged doll.
As if feeling comfort from her touch, the maid took a deep breath and wiped the tears from her eyes as she started again.
“He enrolled her in a medicine class in spite of the dissatisfaction of everyone but he praised her publicly telling she had a talent and she could do it.
I have never seen my daughter so happy in her life. I thought that I was being too sentimental and wary. I should be happy with her happiness. But I was shocked when my daughter told me that she had started to like the crown prince.
No matter how much he helped her, she was just a mere commoner like me. I told her not to see more dreams but she did not listen..
Next morning, when I came to the palace.. I found her.. Naked and dead!”
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