Betrayed By The Hero, Loved By The Lord novel Chapter 127

Chapter 127: Rightful owner (2)

Selene exited the carriage and made her way inside to get a better look now that Ruby and Trevor would not be in her way.

The guards were quick to pull everything from the walls and place it outside.

"I want all the things belonging to Paige packed neatly and set to the side. My battle was never with her," said Selene.

"You can trust her?" Xavier asked, following Selene.

"I don’t know. I simply have to take her word for now. I have never spoken to Paige to know where her heart lies but she left without a fight. Her anger might turn to me and she could want the home back, but for now, she did nothing to me," Selene said, willing to give Paige the benefit of the doubt.

Selene touched the wall, running her fingers against it. "The walls used to be a different colour. There is much to do to get it back as it once was. Do you think the old painters would accept money to recreate our portraits?"

"For the right price they would," Xavier replied.

"It sounds to me that you intend to have threats involved as well. I do not mind as long as you don’t hurt the innocent artist. It is becoming more clear how cruel you need to be to get things done. They only left when violence was used. I will need to be more like you," said Selene.

"I do not want you to be like me. I already like you as you are. You’ve done well today. I mean it," Xavier added, noting her expression as though she did not believe him. "Sometimes it is fine to sit back and let others handle the matter for you. There have been plenty of times I stood back and let my guards handle something for me."

"Besides," Xavier held Selene’s left hand and lifted it to leave a kiss. "I am fond of your kindness toward the people you love. It is rare amongst our kind. Leave the cruelty to me. I am too far gone to have a heart like you do."

Selene frowned. Why would he think such a thing?

"I think you are kind. If no one else has told you then I will. No one who is cruel would do as you have done for me. In your way, you are very kind to the people you care for. At least to me," Selene said, seeing Xavier differently than the town saw him. "They removed it," she noticed another change.

Selene held Xavier’s hand to take him to her old room. "My room was on the second floor. There used to be a big tree with a big branch that I could reach out to climb down and sneak out to play in the garden."

"So, you were a sneaky child," Xavier noted.

Selene laughed. "I do not see it that way. My mother would always spot me first and rather than scold me, she would stay with me in the garden. It was her favourite place to be so my father kept the garden well decorated. I was a well-behaved child."

Xavier disagreed. "If you had to climb a tree to get to the garden then you were being sneaky. It is good to know that between us, you were the troublesome child."

"Me? I refuse to believe you were more well-behaved than I was," Selene replied. _{ƒгeewebnovёl.com}

"I was lovely as a child. I liked to be alone so who was there for me to misbehave with? Between us, you were the social butterfly."

"Well, that has changed now. I understand why you prefer to be alone but I don’t want to be so alone that I think of going into a deep slumber. We should make some friends if we can. Since we do not have many friends, what if we start to annoy each other by spending too much time together? Luckily, the estate is big enough to avoid each other," Selene said but she hoped it wouldn’t come to that.

Selene opened the door to her old room. No longer was it as vibrant as she remembered it to be. It was piled up with boxes as if it had turned into a storage room. "I had thought it would be kept for a room for a child but they decided upon storage."

It was too full of things they wanted out of sight for Selene to be able to see if the large tree outside remained.

"We will rebuild," Xavier promised. "Having it back in the hands of the rightful owner is a start. I can find someone to start working on it by the end of the day. You would only need to give a detailed description of how it was."

"Thank you," Selene said, grateful for his help once more. "I will also need to find someone to work here and watch over the home to keep my relatives from coming back inside. They would be so angry they would try to destroy it. I cannot let that happen."

"I will have guards come here to keep it safe but I don’t think you will have to worry about your family. They will have their problems to take care of," Xavier said.

"Will it not be too suspicious that someone else around us is dead? There is already so much we are being questioned on," Selene said, worried the guards might find something.

"Enjoy bringing back life to this home and leave everything else to me. Since I am kind to take some stress off of you, aren’t I deserving of something? The men are busy-"

"This is the last place I would do anything with you so excuse me," Selene said, quickly exiting the room. "You must remember this is my parents’ home."

"You didn’t care that the estate once belonged to a relative of mine when we were in the library," Xavier replied.

He was reluctant to follow Selene after she turned around to glare at him. "I will not speak of it again," Xavier promised.