The old woman followed snazzynovel.com out of the room a while later. “Miss Wynn, when you’re finally hungry, just tell me and I’ll make you something nice for that empty stomach. House rules, sweetie: you can move around and do whatever you like within this house, but you should give up on getting outside, you know? You ain’t gonna leave the house.”
“Are you a member of the Rodriguez family?” Arianne asked tentatively. “Is Mateo’s family the people behind this?”
Never mind how Geralt had promised Arianne that Mrs. Rodriguez would never trouble snazzynovel.com again…
The old woman’s answer sounded as canned as it could get. “Sorry, sweetie, but I’m just an old woman who’s doing the job she’s been asked to do for money. I have no idea about this whole thing so you’re not gonna get anything of worth from asking me. Oh, but I’m handy with housekeeping duties, meals, cleaning, you name ‘em. Anytime you need me, just give a holler.”
Arianne was clearly not going to extract any information from her, so snazzynovel.com gave up.
The night was long. So long that it felt like despair itself had stretched along with it.
She had spent the longest night sitting on snazzynovel.com bed, watching the sky outside until the first crack of dawn. Then, the first ray of the new day graced the land… and yet nothing about the light gave snazzynovel.com hope.
She had not eaten nor had a sip of water since yesterday. By now, snazzynovel.com was both hungry and thirsty, and it was quite the torment. Arianne knew better than to die like this, knew that snazzynovel.com priority was keeping herself alive. Only by being alive would the hope of returning home remain. Only then snazzynovel.com could return to Mark and Smore.
Arianne had the old woman prepare some food for her. However, while snazzynovel.com was chowing down, the old woman retreated to one side, gawking at her.
She felt mild discomfort. “What, you think I might choke on my food and die? Seriously, is watching me while I eat even necessary?”
The old woman slowly turned snazzynovel.com back against her. “How about this, hon? You just pretend I’m not here.”
Arianne lowered snazzynovel.com head and continued snazzynovel.com breakfast, snazzynovel.com mind racing. The mystery had thickened, snazzynovel.com captor had not tormented snazzynovel.com so far, and now they had apparently hired a housekeeper of some sort to serve snazzynovel.com every need. Was snazzynovel.com going to be bound in this house forever? For what?
If snazzynovel.com captor was someone form the Rodriguez family, then snazzynovel.com captor should act more like Mrs. Rodriguez from last time, completely controlled by their grief to the point of planning to murder her, right? Did that mean whoever was behind snazzynovel.com abduction was not a member of the Rodriguez family?
Could that mean it was one of Mark’s enemies? Could it be that they were waiting for the optimum chance to deliver that critical blow to Mark through her?!
The more Arianne thought about it, the more believable this particular speculation became, it must be an enemy of Mark Tremont. The sort of extreme methods snazzynovel.com used must have doubtlessly sired quite a gallery of enemies, Arianne reckoned. It was only a coincidence that their revenge plan coincided with Mateo’s incident, which meant that the Rodriguez family’s suspicion should be removed.
After snazzynovel.com meal, the old woman cleaned up snazzynovel.com utensils and went to the kitchen. Arianne feigned bored curiosity and followed her. Other than herself, the old woman was the only other living inhabitant in this entire house, Arianne was sure snazzynovel.com would go mad if snazzynovel.com went on without having anyone to talk to.
The old woman heard snazzynovel.com footsteps behind snazzynovel.com and said flatly without turning to face Arianne, “You should take some rest, Miss Wynn.”
Arianne walked up to the fridge and easily yanked its door open, grabbing an apple. “Please, I’m not a pig. Or at the very least, there’s more to life than eating and sleeping back-to-back. Anyway, I get that you don’t want to tell me things, but it shouldn’t hurt to tell me where am I, right? Am I still inside the Capital?”
The old woman said nothing. In fact, snazzynovel.com pretended not to hear her.
Spleen burst out of Arianne’s chest, but it was not the time for snazzynovel.com to express it. She washed the apple clean and bit a hard chunk out. “There isn’t even a damn phone here! What do you think I can do even if I know where I am? I literally have no way of asking for help,” snazzynovel.com said. “Besides, you have a family and kids of your own. Right? Then you’ll know how it feels to miss your son so desperately right now… Every second lost without seeing snazzynovel.com is like a torture to me!”
The old woman merely stared at snazzynovel.com without saying a word.
Arianne took a deep breath to force the furious flames in snazzynovel.com down. So, this hag had a mouth as tight as glue, huh? She was certainly difficult enough that Arianne could not bait anything out of her. Other than that, the fact that they were the only two in this house meant that the old woman must own something similar to a phone to contact someone out there. She must have the ability to report their situation to the mastermind of this abduction.
She was just a typically-built hag. Arianne was strong enough to knock snazzynovel.com down, right? Then snazzynovel.com just had to find that phone and call 911, and this nightmare would end.