My Lonely Duke

My First Day

Hazel POV 

I note down all the things which are coming to my mind regarding taking care of Kathy. She seems like a nice person and I believe it would be easy for me to do this. 

I go to the kitchen and look all over for place for the things I need. When I see that the dust had settled all over the utensils and shelves, I conclude that it needs cleaning. 

I take all the utensils out and start to clean the kitchen. I am coughing in no time as it is too messy. 

In about an hour, I have made the kitchen suitable for cooking, I have cleaned the utensils and washed them properly. I like it hygienic and I wouldn't want anyone to expect anything less. 

Should I charge them extra for this? I will ask the Duke later. 

I prepare oatmeal and a glass of fresh orange juice. Well I brought the orange for myself since there were no fruits present earlier. 

I can imagine that Kathy must be hungry and take it to her room. 

As I am about to enter, I remember my manners and knock. 

I could hear things being shuffled around and then the door opens. Kathy is looking at me with a wide grin on her face and that gives me relief. 

As I enter the room it feels really warm or I could say hot. 

The hall and the kitchen were supposedly cooler than this. What’s with this room?

I place the food on the table beside, I notice that Kathy is looking at me strangely. 

Then I remember, I am all dusty with the cleaning. 

“I was actually cleaning the kitchen. Sorry for my appearance” I say looking down. 

“No worries my dear, I am not too bothered by the dirt outside as much I am bothered by it being inside” she says looking nonchalant 

She confuses me. 

“Would you like something else?” I ask her

She seems happy by my question and hand me a list of things. 

I looked down at the list and I am taken aback. 

It mentions a whip, a sack full of coal and 12 knifes. I look up at Kathy then down again at the list, waiting for an explanation. 

“It gets cold here, so to keep the room hot and there are animals around here a lot” she explains still smiling which I find to be little creepy. 

And here I was starting to think that she is normal

"I have mentioned the person to contact in the paper, he could give you everything." she says

I hear the door bell and look at Kathy. 

“Lets see who is here at this time” she starts to move towards the door” 

We reach the door and as she opens it, I see a figure so dark that if I wouldn’t have known someone was there at the door, I would never have noticed him. 

The guy standing at the door emits such a dark aura that I feel sick all of a sudden, it feels as if I am losing all my energy by just standing so close to him. 

As Kathy gestures him to come inside, my eyes fell on his face and he looks like an angel. 

I have never seen angel but if there were angel he could possibly be one. 

The color of his skin is pale while and it is flawless. He has a square jawline and his eyelashes are too long. The chin dimple almost takes my breath away. 

He looks at me for a moment and I realize that I am openly drooling.

“I didn’t know you entertain people” he says with his heavy voice. 

“She is my caretaker” Kathy says 

He laughs at that and it leaves me confused. 

“Why are you here today?” Kathy asks

I feel it to be little rude as we usually don’t ask our guest this question but maybe they are close. 

He looks at me and then at Kathy. 

“As there was an accident nearby, I thought to visit you. The man seemed to be a known serial killer” he says 

From the corner of my eyes, I see a wicked grin on Kathy’s face. 

“It would be fun” she says writing down something in her notepad. 

“What would be fun?” I ask suddenly, too uncomfortable with the conversation. 

“Bad people getting punished” Kathy says now giving me the sweet innocent smile. 

“Okay, I should go get these things” I say in hurry as I don’t want to stay a minute longer in the eerie environment. 

“Is she the same girl?” He asks 

“Yeah…” Kathy continues talking 

It’s all I hear as I step out of the haunted kind of house.