Filed To Story: A Little Princess's Journey from Darkness to Light Novel
The ghost baby continued to scramble about in a daze. Lilly rejoined them in the room in her cherry-print pajamas after her shower. “Hey, where’s stepmother?”
“She left.”
That took Lilly by surprise. “We don’t need to catch her?”
“She can no longer endanger anyone. Her soul will vanish from the earth even if we don’t catch her. Let her be.”
The ghostly infants would have to be temporarily kept in the jar of souls. They would be free to go once the opportunity for them to reincarnate arrived!
Lilly nodded. “Okay.:
There was a knock on the door. Bettany walked in to nag at the girl for not yet sleeping and offered to read her a bedtime story.
The little girl obediently got into bed and listened to Bettany reading her a story until she finally fell asleep.
Bettany gently ruffled Lilly’s hair and wanted to kiss the child on her forehead but found herself unable to do so.
She couldn’t stand up and Lilly was already asleep.
“Ah, my age is catching up with me.” Bettany threw her granddaughter reluctant looks. “Who knows how long this old bag of bones can remain by your side…?”
Pablo leaned by the wayside as he watched the sleeping child.
The kid must’ve wanted to ask who her father was.
It was only natural for her to be hurt after being so viciously called a bastard.
“Looking for your Dad, huh…” Pablo took out his booklet. “That’s easy to do. All I need is ten seconds.”
He concentrated his energy on opening the latter half of the booklet he usually wouldn’t be able to reach.
The veins in his forehead were rippling from the strain until he finally turned the page that belonged to Lilly.
“Damn… It’s going to take up all my energy if I try this every time unless it flips open by itself…”
Despite his painstaking efforts to open it, the column where her biological parents read, “Mother – Jean Crawford and Father – N/A”.
“…”
F*ck!
He closed the booklet to stroke his nose bridge. He lightly cleared his throat. “Forget it. You don’t need to know who your father is. It’s information we don’t need.”
Lilly, meanwhile, was deeply asleep.
She dreamt that she was in the middle of a dense fog where she could barely make out shadows of a forest in the distance.
“Over here, Lilly.” A deep, soothing voice rang out.
“Daddy?” She blurted out and sped toward the direction of the forest but no matter how she tried, her destination never got closer.
She flopped onto the floor in her exhaustion when laughter rang in her ear. “Hehe.”
That scared her. She was greeted by an old woman in a green Victorian ball gown as soon as she turned around. The elder was laughing.
“You’re looking for your Daddy? I know who he is. Let me tell you…”
The old woman reached out…
That immediately shocked Lilly awake.
It was the weekend the very next day. Drake and Josh Crawford were generally disciplined by nature and were up by 7. Zachary and Hannah on the other hand were not morning creatures and would not wake up unless they were hungry.
Josh was in the study on the first floor, seated upright on a chair with a serious expression on his face.“Magnetic induction… B=F/IL…” Josh mumbled to himself. “If B is the force of the magnetic induction and the magnetic flux required to be on a supernatural frequency is phi… and B and F is…”
Drake, who was seated opposite Josh reading Shakespeare, looked up from his book. What was Josh calculating?! Drake wondered.
“Are you waiting for Lilly?” Drake asked. Josh usually preferred to stay in his own room since there was a large desk for him to work on his mathematical equations.
“Of course not,” Josh responded without looking up.
Drake smirked as he tapped on his cellphone. “You said yesterday you weren’t looking for her either, but I caught you going over to her room!” he
Josh’s ears turned red, but he did not crack. “Which eye of yours saw me going into her room? I wasn’t looking for her. I just happened to pa*s by her room.”
Drake refused to let his younger brother off the hook. He turned his cell phone screen in Josh’s direction and shoved it in his face roughly, accidentally hitting him on the cheek.
“Argh!” Josh cried out in annoyance and pain. “Fine, so what if I did look for her?” Josh had no qualms turning to Lilly for help since she was a genius. In fact, if Drake found out just how much of a genius Lilly was, he might even fight for her attention. No, Lilly was his! Josh eyed Drake warily before grabbing his math textbook and moving over to the other end of the sofa.
Drake thought Josh was being ridiculous and sensitive, as if he would even be interested in Lilly. Was that even possible? Drake scoffed as he restrained himself from rolling his eyes at his brother.
Just then, Lilly appeared at the bottom of the staircase, hugging Bunny in one arm and rubbing her eyes sleepily with the other. Josh immediately shut the math textbook he was reading upon noticing Lilly. “Lils, you’re up!” he exclaimed.
Drake barely lifted his head from his book despite overhearing Josh. Wow, he gave her a pet name already? Drake thought to himself.
Lilly looked dazed and unfocused, and her hair became even more frazzled as she let out a loud sneeze.
“Why didn’t you sleep a little longer?” Josh asked.
“Mmm…” Lilly flattened her lips as she looked in Josh’s direction. “A ghost scared me, and then I couldn’t go back to sleep anymore…”
Josh could not help but recall the ferocity in Lilly’s eyes when she caught the ghost last night. How could she still be frightened of one? Just as Josh was about to offer Lilly some words of comfort, he noticed Drake looking at her intently with a curious glint in his eye.
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