Affair in the Red House

CHAPTER 19 : ESCAPE

The blazing afternoon sun already settled on the west and the dark sky already ate the remaining light on the sky bed. Evening came again and Rein moved his leg helplessly as the metal chain made a clanging sound again.

It's his second night on this situation and he's been tiring himself attempting every angle to unlock the chain but it's all a failure

And his continuous movement suppressed by the chain made his skin on the part of his ankle bled. A line of reddish mark made by the tight bound made his foot look miserable.

He was looking around the things that he already took hold to break free, there's a ballpen that he took from the side table, his side lamp which was already broken due to his rage, he mindlessly made it as a hammer to break the chain unfortunately, it has no use and his shoes then his belt, he tried unlocking the hole with it's tongue but it's too big!

He was contemplating hard when someone knocked.

"Good evening Sir, your dinner." the familiar voice called, it was the maid that has been assigned to deliver his food to him every eating hours.

"Come in." Rein replied

Soon as she heard it, she slowly opened the door with the tray on her hand.

"We got beef stew and your favorite side dishes Sir." she said

Rein just nodded as he wave his hand gesturing to just leave it there.

The maids in the house were clearly instructed not to mendle with the affairs of the couple that's why as soon as she placed the tray, she turned. But as she was about to reach for the door, Rein called her.

"Hey," he called casually "...do you wear any hairpin?" he asked

The maid turned to face with a confuse look but still answered, "W-Well, I do usually Sir." head hanged low, it was her first time to have a talk with Rein.

Rein nodded then moved at the edge of the bed, the chain sounded as his leg moved along with his body "But right now, do you wear any?"

The maid finally lifted her head to see Rein staring at her, she blushed since the man was looking sexy for the moment, his white sleeve were loose, hiding the firm body beneath but a part of his fair upper chest were exposed due to the unbuttoned parts of his sleeve.

"Do you have even just one hairpin? Right now?" he asked again

The maid finally snapped from her sudden fantasies and immediately reached for her hair, she took two from the back of his low bun and walked nervously towards the man.

"I-I have two Sir." she said

Rein didn't mind anything as his eyes fixated on those two stick pins on her fingers.

"Do you need help of anything with it Sir?" she asked and reached her hand to give to Rein

Rein smiled as he calmly took the pins from her, concealing the purpose he had in mind.

"It's okay, I'm just bored and I wanna...play something with it." he awkwardly answered

"Oh," she responded with an expression as if it's something reasonable, "Then take it as you like Sir." she said enthusiastically.

Rein smiled until the moment that the maid got out of the room. When the door finally closed shut, Rein immediately tweaked the hairpin to have a straight edge so that it can pass through the key hole.

His body bent to fully focus on unlocking the chain, one hour has passed but there's still no progress, brows squinted deeply as the pin started to slide off due to the sweat on his palms.

He sighed when the pin finally bent from the force he's been exerting to it. He threw it away and took the other one, he has been hearing clicks from the inner part of the keyhole so if he could just reach the main function, it would be success.

He straightened the edge once again and have it enter the keyhole, the moment he turned it to the right, he heard a click. A loud click that made him stop for a moment.

His eyes slowly turned just to see that the metal chain that was securing his ankle were unlocked. It clicked open!

Rein couldn't felt anything but bliss! Complete bliss! He almost lost hope but who would have thought this single unexpected turn finally let him free.

He immediately took the chains off of him and ignored the bleeding lines caused by the chain, he moved his leg and got off from the bed.

He is aware that the door is locked so he immediately went straight to the balcony where the fire escape stairwell is located near.

This house was three storey so he's lucky enough that his room was on the second and he didn't need to climb down such height.

He felt the night breeze the moment he went out on the balcony but he didn't have time to spare and immediately reached the escape stair, it was a meter in a half away from his balcony but since he had enough length of an arm to reach and long legs to jump towards it, he immediately succeeded.

He hanged for a moment at the back of the skeletal stair but soon composes himself as he climbed to reach the main body of the stair.

He panted for air as the cold breeze passes by his sweating head. He couldn't imagine that one day, him, Bei Rein would climb his way out indecently.

He stared at the full moon ahead, it was shining brightly in the dark sky and with it's help, he could see the path below and the gates that's almost covered by trees surrounding the place.

He braced himself to climb down immediately and upon arriving the ground, he heaved sharp breath, his ankle has been aching for a while but since he couldn't waste a single second on this escape, he ignored it.

Now, the thing he would trouble next is how to get out from the gates and to sneak out from the guards.

Wait---

He stood stupefied. Now that he got closer look on the surrounding field, there are bodies lying on the ground not too far from his position.

Bodies!

He froze and was about to step backward when he felt a hand that suddenly pulled him by the corner.