The Devil's Temptation!

225 Agnes’s Touch

“Is there anything you wish for me to take care of Milady?” Agnes proceeded to ask after she was done arranging the Lord’s chamber. It was advisable to test her working capabilities in order to judge her accurately, since she deals with chambers mainly. Becca suggested the Lord’s chamber would be a good place to start since it’d require for the new maid to put more effort.

From Anna’s fair observation, the woman did a remarkable job when it comes to taking care of a household. The room appeared neat and sparkling tidy. The chamber was already neat before, but there was some touch the maid added that Anna found the room to be neater than before.

For that, Anna was indeed impressed.

“No, there’s nothing more.” Her soft response was what came next as she lowered the book she was reading, so she could look at the middle-aged-woman who kept her head in a low respectable bow.

All of this sudden respect felt extremely new to Anna, she could remember how she was the one who did most of a maid’s duty, but she never imagined that a day will come when she will be the one to make servants do her own bidding.

It felt a bit uncomfortable and since Anna wasn’t fond of it, she didn’t really need someone to take care of her things since she’s more than capable of doing them herself.

“Are you sure Milady?” Agnes asked again for second confirmation, and Anna nodded with an honest smile, already aware of why she took a second confirmation.

“Yes, you just arrived, so I think you should get settled first and then we can talk later.” She asserted thoughtfully. Agnes slowly raised her head up to look at Anna, and she smiled warmly as a sign of her gratitude to Anna’s kindness.

“Thank you for welcoming me in.”

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“The pleasure is mine, you may leave now.” Anna dismissed the new maid before turning away to read the book she was holding, sitting more comfortably on the dressing table while the maid bowed once more before turning around to leave.

Once again, that disturbing dizziness Anna had felt was starting to trouble her again, most especially her sight. The pages on the book she was reading appeared blurry, and it was difficult to make out the words written in them. Closing the book in annoyance when the frustration started to kick in, she let out a tired hum before placing a hand to her forehead, her eyes closed and she said nothing more.

Agnes’s face immediately contorted into a worrisome expression after taking notice of Anna’s predicament. She was about leaving when Anna’s movement made her stop to see if she was alright.

“Is everything okay with you, Milady?” She asked, still standing at the threshold and waiting for Anna’s permission to come in or not.

“I’m fine.” Anna opened her eyes, but her vision still wasn’t stable. Apparently there was supposed to be one mirror on the dressing table, but she was seeing two mirrors.

She could feel a headache trying to cloud her senses and none of this was explanatory. What’s happening to her all of a sudden??

“Are you sure?” Agnes asked again when the lady didn’t respond. This time, she took a step in, forgetting that she needed permission to enter the lady’s chamber, and she was standing behind Annalise whose eyes were closed again as she tried to deal with the headache and dizziness at the same time.

“I’m just_” Anna’s voice trailed off. When she opened her eyes again, she was looking into the mirror, but instead of seeing the usual brown eyes she possessed, her eyes were shimmering with an usual golden glow swirling in her irises.

Her eyes changed color??

“M_my eyes???”

A shocking gasp tore from Agnes’s lips when she saw the difference in Anna’s eye color. She wasn’t as shocked as Anna who no longer cared about her dizziness when her eyes at the moment were a completely different color.

“What... what happened to my eyes??” She leaned forward to the mirror so she could look at it properly, in case she was dreaming or not.

“You need to calm down Milady.” Agnes reached for her side the moment Anna started to panic. The shock and fear were written on her face as she studied her eyes in the mirror, and it appeared she wasn’t seeing things.

Her eyes changed color!!

“But my eyes-”

“You’re panicking, you need to calm down or it might affect you even more.” Agnes hinted worriedly when she noticed the dressing table vibrate magically on its own, as though it’d violently break if too much pressure was applied to it, and if Anna doesn’t calm down, not only will the tables break, but the windows and shelves and basically everything in the room would shake and shatter noisily.

“Milady.”

Agnes stood behind the chair Anna was sitting on and began to massage Anna’s head for her.

At first, her unexpected actions had taken Anna by surprise, she wanted to ask what the lady was doing, but as the soothing massaging continued, Anna felt her system relax gradually from the woman’s touch, her eyelids appeared heavy while her head was currently having a moment of her life.

The vibrating stopped, and Anna’s golden eyes turned normal when she relaxed against Agnes’s touch.

“Are you fine Milady?”

Anna wanted to respond, she wanted to ask what sort of relaxing technique this was. It was just a massage, but the familiarity of her touch didn’t skip Anna’s heart. It reminded her of someone, and when she managed to lift her lids up so she could look at Agnes, she appeared to be genuinely concerned for her health while continuing the massage.

Who is this woman?

“Are you feeling better?”

Anna’s attention shifted to her face in the mirror, and her eyes had returned to their original color again. But she was starting to feel sleepy and couldn’t respond.

“This massage_” she looked at Agnes through her heavy lids. “This massage feels familiar.”

At the mention of familiar, the woman massaging her tensed at the spot, and her hands stopped like someone who just got caught in the act.

“For a second there, I thought someone really close to my heart was touching me.” She admitted before looking at the frozen Agnes.