~Zoe~
It was like they had both disappeared into thin air. I had been looking for them everywhere, but there was no sight of them. Not even the staff knew where they were, though I wouldn’t put it past Niklaus to make sure that they didn’t tell me. He knew that I was going to keep beating myself up over the last words he said to me yesterday afternoon, and he wanted to draw out the suffering for as long as he could.
I couldn't understand why he was so annoyed though. So what if I had been speaking with Alex only moments prior? Alex was the closest thing I had to a friend in the mansion, so it shouldn’t have come as a shock that I liked talking to him even though he played such an expensive prank on me.
To the best of my knowledge, I knew that Niklaus didn’t read minds; at least that w
