It was the day where very one were going back to Zachary's house. Zachary's including mine were going with them to visit Julia's and Gale's house. I walked up to the door to bid them farewell as I was the only one who wasn't going. I wasn't feeling well and that is why I denied politely for going with them. My family would return in the night while Julia's family will stay back in their house.

　　"Are you sure you don't want to come, my dear?" Zachary's grandpa asked me as he kept his hand on my head. I smiled and shook my head no at him.


　　"I will come some other time, for sure," I told him and he nodded.

　　"Okay and dear," he said but stopped in mid-sentence. I nodded at me asking him to continue.

　　"Please forgive my Udolf, I will talk to him! Believe it wasn't what I taught to hi-"


　　"Grandpa," I stopped him and smiled.

　　"It's okay! Everything is sorted out now," I said and watched as the sadness in his eyes didn't leave instead it grew even more. I guess he saw behind my facade of smiling face. He was the 'General' after all.


　　"Please don't give up on my Udolf," he asked and that broke my heart. When there is no hope in our relationship how could ever have any faith upon Zachary?

　　Nonetheless, I nodded to keep his words and he smiled.

　　"Take care," he said and replied the same and watched as they got into the car and drove away.

　　Sighing, I closed the door and went back to the bedroom. Nobody except me and Hilda was in the house today. I went to the balcony and looked out to find the bodyguards guarding the house perimeter. Zachary went to his office, for work. He didn't join fo which I'm really glad because I didn't want Julia or grandpa talking to him about anything that I didn't want him to listen. Even Kiara went them. It will good if she maintained the distance from him else she would end up spilling everything before him.

　　It was already afternoon when I had my lunch and I walked back into my room. Unlike the other days, I felt really hot today. The temperature was high and I chose to wear a black short pant and blue stripped boyfriend shirt to ease my body temperature. I was just about to turn the Tv on when there was loud noise which came from the outside. I jumped on my toes and looked towards the balcony thinking what just happened.

　　Then I heard gunshots and people yelling and screaming. I felt the bile rising up as I walked to the balcony door and looked out of the glass door peeping through the curtains.

　　A gasp escaped my mouth when I witnessed a man killing our guards. But the fact was there was not only one man but many as they shoot and killed every guard as they made their way towards the house.

　　"Nicholas?" I said and clamped my mouth using my hand when I noticed him from one of those men.

　　"Ma'am" I heard the door opening and walked in a worried Hilda. Her face was pale and she huffed out air as if she just ran a marathon.

　　"We have been attacked," she cried and ran up to me.

　　"Hurry! You need to hide!" she cried and pulled me with her.

　　"No, wait!"

　　"Don't argue!" she snapped at me.

　　"I have already informed sir and he is in his way, now hurry you need to hide. Sir told me to hide you," she said and looked around thinking where must take me in order to save me.

　　"Bu-"

　　"Please! Don't say anything! Let me think! Oh, my goodness! What should I do?" she cried and then dragged me out of the room. Gun shots were heard everywhere and people screaming and yelling at each other was clearly heard as we made it up to the third floor and towards a room.

　　"Where are you taking me?" I pulled her to stop.

　　"It's not the time to argue. Please trust me and cooperate with me," she said and pulled me into a room.

　　"You will stay inside this room, make sure you lock up from inside!" she said and turned around to leave but I stopped her.

　　"Where are you going?" I asked and stopped her from going out.

　　"I need to stop them from reaching up her," she said as she tried to free herself from my grasp.

　　"No! Are you mad? Stay here! It's dangerous! You will die!"

　　She pried my hands away and shoved me backward. I stumbled on my own foot and fell on my back on the ground.

　　"Please forgive me, I am just fulfilling my duty," she said and ran out of the old and dirty storeroom closing the door behind her.

　　"No-" I coughed and tried to get up "Wait!" tears blinded my vision as I stood up n my feet and walked towards the small open window and looked out. The window was facing the backside of the house and luckily I found no one under the window. But I could hear the gun shots and the scream of people. Guessing from the pitch of the scream I assumed that, people were dying. It was the scream of their plea and I placed my hands over my ears and closed my eyes pleading the Almighty to help and save the people and to stop it.

　　Twenty minutes later, everything stopped. I could no longer hear the scream nor any gunshots. As a ray of hope lit inside my heart thinking that it was over, but then it shattered into pieces when I heard rumbling and footsteps from outside my door. Clamping my hand over my mouth I looked around frantically searching for a place to hide.

　　"Did you find her?" I heard Nicholas's voice and that made me even more frightened than I already was.

　　They have reached me!

　　"No, we checked every room even his study room for any type of secret passage but found none!" another man spoke.

　　"Did that woman open her mouth?" Nicholas asked and a gasp escaped my mouth when I thought about Hilda being captured.

　　"No! she isn't opening her mouth. Your father is handling her!" the man said and as if it wasn't enough the mention of his father made my heart pound against my chest.

　　Vito was also here?

　　"Go! check that room, I will check this room," I heard Nicholas and then heard his footsteps nearing the room where I was hiding. I looked here and there frantically when my eyes fell on the window. I made a run for the window and looked out. The only thing that I found was a narrow beam beside the window. The beam looked as the only support for my life and I struggled to get out of the small window and carefully took baby steps as I walked towards the side with my back facing the wall and my front facing the front open area. I did a mistake to look down and that knocked the sense out of me. I was standing in a narrow beam, three floors up from the ground with no help but the walls to be held as I took small sidesteps in order to get away from the damn window.

　　No! Don't look down.

　　You can do it, Juliette!

　　God, please help me.