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“What do you think you’re doing?!” She heard a voice scream. A blurry face staring at her but after that, all she heard was drowned out voices.
‘It… feels warm…’ she thinks, closing her eyes
“PENELOPE DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES” she thought she heard someone calling out her name but it felt so far away she no longer knows if it was real or not.
*STAB*
Penelope shot up despite being asleep less than a second ago. Waking up feeling a stabbing pain in her arm, something she didn’t enjoyed feeling, wasn’t out of the ordinary to her anymore.
“My lady, wake up.” She heard a voice say.
‘Huh? I could’ve sworn I was just with Reynold…’
Turning to her side, she saw her maid, Emily standing there with a smirk. A sense of Deja Vu swept through her body.
‘Wait what…?’ Penelope looked around the room just to see if her mind was playing tricks on her.
“I’ve prepared water for you to bathe in, so please go and wash, my lady.”
With that, Emily left and Penelope had no choice but to go ‘wash up’. In the bathroom, her suspicions came true.
‘So I did go back…’ her eyebrows furrowed trying to come up with a logical reason on how she went back with no luck. “Looks like i have to go through this day again.”
A knock on the door snapped her out of her thoughts.
“My lady, breakfast is ready. Will you be a little while?” She heard Emily say on the other end.
Finishing washing up with the bowl of cold water left for her, she left the bathroom and followed Emily
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“Please enjoy. You must be hungry.” Emily said setting Penelope’s rotten food down in front of her.
Penelope, who already lived through this, knew that if she did what she originally did, she would just have to relive this torture again.
She only had one option.
To eat the rotten food served to her.
Picking up the spoon, she began to eat the spoiled soup. Swallowing, she had to hold back a gag, “EEK…!”
Seeing this, Emily was surprised, “Huh?”
Unable to finish the soup, Penelope moved onto the moldy bread.
“M-My lady! Are you really…?!” Emily yelled out not believing that the mad-dog of the Eckhart house would actually eat the food served to her without causing a tantrum.
At that very moment, someone else had walked in.
“What is going on?” They asked.
“Oh…!” Emily let out after turning around to see who it was that had just walked in. “M-Master Reynold!” She yelled out.
“URRRK!” Penelope had let out, unable to stomach the rotten food anymore.
Upon hearing that, Reynold walked closer to her to see what was happening.
“Hey, are your okay…?” He asked when he got to her side. Looking down, he finally saw the rotten food served to her.
“What is this…?!” He yelled out in shock. Coming out of his shock, Reynold turned around to Emily.
“Hey. What did you just fed her?” He asked the scared maid
“M-Master! I-It’s just-“
“Even if you dare disrespect the Duke’s household, there is a limit!” He yelled slamming his first into the table.
“A mere maid gives this garbage to their mistress for food…!”
“Mast I… This isn’t what it looks like! I-“ Emily said trying to claim innocent.
He interrupted her, “Leave this room now. I will be telling my father and brother about this.”
“Ah,uhh…” Emily let out, unable to say anything further.
“Is anyone outside? Butler!” Reynold yelled out.
At his call, a maid a butler had arrived. “Young master, is there a problem?”
“Take this bitch and lock her up.” he told them
“M-Master! I’m sorry! Master! Master!” Emily yelled, still trying to be innocent.
Ignoring Emily’s pleas, Reynold turned back around to Penelope.
“Hey, are you okay?” he says, putting as hand on her shoulder.
“Why did you just foolishly sit there and eat that? You should have flipped the table and screamed like you normally do.”
Penelope didn’t answer him.
“hey… you don’t look good at all. Should i call a doctor?” Reynold asked, a slight worried tone could be heard.
Not used to seeing Reynold like this, Penelope hesitated before answering him,” Why do you care? You never cared about me before today so why bother?” Penelope looked away from him after, not wanting to possibly anger him more.
“You…Fine.” He said, a slight disappointed tone shining through,”There isn’t a doctor in this estate who can make time for you anyway. Stuff your face with whatever you want. You can even die if you wish.” With that, he walked away from her.