The Jewel in My Heart
Chapter 15

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The sound of the door knocking woke Anna from her deep sleep. In his lyrics the wall clock that punched the number eight.

Anna jumped straight out of bed, but a second later she smiled amusedly.

This wasn't her house, and today it was certain she couldn't teach so she didn't need to panic due to being late awake.

Anna yawned once before opening the door. A young woman dressed in a light green uniform was standing at the door with her left hand carrying a suit of clothes hanging neatly as if she had just come out of the laundry while her right hand was carrying a large cloth bag.

Anna was about to ask something but the woman left immediately after Anna received her clothes and the bag she was carrying.

With a frown Anna looked at the clothes for her and Nina. Anna was impressed when she opened the plastic that wrapped her.

Great, Anna thought after putting the clothes on her body, where could they know her size?.

Anna took off the clothes, which turned out to be her label still sticking to it from her hanger and her face turned even more amazed, behind the clothes was a set of underwear with labels still attached as well.

They provide new clothes, how generous he is. whereas Anna thinks she can go home in a taxi without needing to change her clothes, no one sees her.

With curiosity Anna opened a cloth bag that turned out to contain a can of formula milk that is usually in Nian drinking, which is, a clear plastic box contains five bottles of milk that are still warm as recently sterilized, and a small thermos filled with warm water.

Anna realized, during her stay at home it turns out the foreign man noticed everything.

"Maa.." whined Nina when the toddler just opened her eyes.

Anna immediately approached her daughter and gently rubbed Nina's hair. "So soon, Mama make milk first" said Anna and immediately made milk.

Half an hour later Anna and Nina finished bathing and put on new clothes. Anna watched Nina who was running around the room.

Nina touched everything she could touch. While Anna was thinking hard, what else should she do now?

The sound of knocking was heard again, Anna quickly opened the door and wished it was a foreign man who had come with her here.

But the one who came was the middle-aged man who delivered him to this room last night.

"Let's come with me" she said, gesturing for Anna to hurry.

Without wasting any more time Anna grabbed Nina's hand and led her following the middle-aged man's footsteps.

They arrived at a fairly spacious balcony, where there was a round table with four wooden chairs surrounding it.

The foreign man who brought Anna here was sitting on one of the chairs while reading the newspaper. Anna stepped up agitatedly while Nina looked pleased.

The toddler immediately released his hand from his mother and ran towards the foreign man who was folding his newspaper.

Anna is again surprised because Nina looks amazingly happy when the foreign man lifts her into his lap and starts tickling her belly while laughing. She didn't know that her daughter knew the man very well.

The middle-aged man who escorted her immediately left them.

"Sit down" said the stranger.

Anna sat politely, suddenly feeling disinclined with the stranger. "Nina came here" said Anna, trying to persuade Nina to move into her lap, but the toddler seemed reluctant to come down from the stranger's lap.

"Let her" said the man.

"Like you're an important person" Anna said carefully.

"really"

Well, maybe he's an ambassador, Anna thought.

For some reason, in a neat suit, the stranger looked dignified, and Anna became awkward.

The stranger nodded "I also thank you for helping me that night"

"Yes" Anna was silent for a moment. "You think.. the people who came last night... Will they come again?"

"certainly"

Anna's face paled "What should I do?"

"Nothing"

"Nothing?" anna was confused.

"Yes, nothing" the man insisted, "I'll take care of everything"

"Detach? you mean arrest them? or that kind of thing? what about me? I didn't even bring any clothes..."

"I'll provide it"

"Does that mean I have to move out of my house?"

"Yes"

"Then I have to clean up my stuff first"

The man shook his head "You can't go back to your house, too dangerous. I will prepare all your and Nina's needs. You don't have to worry about things like that."

Anna freaked out, does she have to move now? then where will he stay? what about his job? how about Nina?

"Have you prepared a place to stay for me and Nina? ask Anna.

The man nodded and thanked her as a woman delivered three bowls of soup and placed them on the table.

The woman immediately left after nodding respectfully.

"Of course"

"I hope it's not too far from my house. You know. I teach private lessons" Anna said carefully.

"You're gonna stay with me at the Freyster"

"Freysters? Anna repeated with a frown, she had never heard of that place "Is it far away?"

"Yes"

"Where?"

"European Continent"

Anna felt like she was about to faint at the reply of a stranger who was sipping coffee in front of her.

Nina had already descended from the man's lap and was now trying to sit on one of the wooden chairs.

"That far? who the hell are you?"

"I'm Arthur Drake Tenace, Head of State Freyster. Since Freyster is monaric, I am King"

Both of Anna's eyebrows shot up high, trying not to laugh out loud. Truth be told, it is still medieval...