mystery lover

During the two days of recuperating in Tom's manor, Charles learned a little more about the man beside him. For example, among the deceased parents, his father was a Muggle, and his mother was a pure-blood wizard, so they naturally inherited some family property. There are also certain contacts in the wizarding world, and this is the conclusion that Badger came to based on his own observations.

Everything seemed reasonable, but Charles still had a faint sense of weirdness in his heart.

But if he couldn't figure it out, he didn't want to think about it. Little Badger, who had been taken care of by Tom for two days, quickly ignored that little bit of doubt.

On Sunday afternoon, Tom, who was about to send himself back to Hogwarts, seemed to have encountered something important. After telling Charles that he would be back soon, he left the manor with another wizard who rushed over.

After Tom left, Charles wandered around the manor a little bored.

This made the young man once again feel the magnificence of this ancient manor with its exhausted luxury. In addition, the young man also had a little curiosity in his heart. It turns out that Tom also likes this style?

When Charles walked into the garden, he vaguely saw a few figures coming in from outside the manor, but at a distance, the young man only regarded it as Tom's guest, so he didn't pay much attention, after all, he was not here the master.

But Tom said for a while, it's time to come back now.

I don't know what that guy did, and Charles only knew a little about Tom's work, but the other party didn't say much, so Charles didn't ask any more questions. Although he had met some wizards in the manor in the past two days, Tom It doesn't seem to be the intention of introducing them to him. If you ignore the slightly strange attitude of those wizards when they meet him, Charles thinks this is pretty good, at least he doesn't have to deal with strangers.

On one side, Charles was quietly waiting for Tom to come back in the garden. On the other side, Bella Lestrange, who had just returned from the American wizarding world, heard the news that had been passed on among the Death Eaters. Bella, who never thought that her master would fall in love with a boy, took advantage of Lord's absence from the manor, and almost ran into Charles in the garden not long after.

"You are Charles McAvoy?"

When the woman's slightly sharp voice sounded, Charles was momentarily absent-minded because he saw the person in front of him clearly.

Why is Mrs. Lestrange here?

Bella stared at the silent boy, her tone was a bit harsh, but she was concerned about her master, so she just said viciously, "It's not that bad, you dare to seduce Lord?"

"..."

Seeing the aggressive look of the other party, Charles was speechless for a moment, and became even more froze after hearing the Lord in the woman's mouth.

"Why on earth is Lord being so nice to you!"

The anger and jealousy in Bella's eyes almost tore the boy opposite him apart.

At this moment, accompanied by a gloomy male voice, a tongue lock directly hit the person opposite Charles.

"Tom!"

Little Badger, who was initially unable to react because of Bella's words, jumped to the man's side as if he had found a savior when he saw Tom walking over there.

Bella looked at the wizard who was approaching, and after a moment of doubt, she was horrified to find that the man in front of her, who was looking at the boy with all kinds of concerns and checks, was her master!

This made Bella, who guessed Tom's identity, look at the boy enjoying the man's favor even more jealously, but the next second, the witch tremblingly put away her emotions that she shouldn't have.

After Voldemort gave her a cold look, Bella could only lower her head in horror. It wasn't until the master left with the boy in her arms that waves of fear surged in the witch's heart again. With that warning look, Bella knew The Lord will definitely not just let it go, but why, why their Lord would fall in love with a worthless boy!

The witch's eyes were full of puzzlement.

*****

"Tom, will you just leave like this? Mrs. Lestrange is still over there."

Leaning in the man's arms, Charles asked worriedly. Although he was very happy for Tom's behavior of leaving with him, otherwise he didn't know what horrible words the lady would say.

but……

Mrs. Lestrange actually went to Tom's manor to question his unrealistic rumors.

This is... too weird.

Does the whole world think that rumor is true?

"She knows how to leave herself." Voldemort said without emotion, although the first moment he saw Bella standing in front of Charles, the Dark Lord was worried that the servant had said something wrong to his boy the words said.

"..." Charles was silent for a while, then suddenly looked up at the man, "Tom, why is Mrs. Lestrange here?"

"I have cooperated with their family."

Voldemort said succinctly, but the haze in his eyes was aggravated by Charles' doubts. For both of them, now is not the best time to reveal their identities.

"Oh." After hearing the man's answer, Charles stopped talking.Although I still have some doubts, why this rumored high-sighted lady almost looks down on any other family except Slytherin, Black and other ancient nobles, and Mrs. Lestrange would be so... tolerant of Tom's rudeness?

Charles really couldn't find a word to describe the strange feeling just now.

Vaguely, the young man felt that the feeling seemed to be a kind of...

Surrender—?

Charles was taken aback by his own thoughts, and after looking at Tom with the same expression as usual, the boy's thinking got stuck again.

But how?Everyone knew that whether it was the Lestrange family or the Black family, these pure-blood nobles in the wizarding world would only obey the dark king.

Even if Tom has a cooperation with the Lestrange family, wouldn't this be too rude.

But Charles finally found out that this man didn't only behave in such perverse ways when he was treating him!

This guy simply has a communication problem!

As a result, the little badger, whose thinking was running further and further away, naturally ignored some details again.

*****

"Take your medicine on time, for a week."

After sending Charles outside Hogwarts Castle, Voldemort reminded this little badger with a bad head again.

"Got it." Charles carefully stared at the man's face. Although Tom had been by his side for the past two days, the man's face was not good-looking at all!

However, the man cared a lot about himself, which made Charles feel a little bit of joy in his heart.

Hearing the boy's answer, Voldemort's expression softened, and his voice softened, "I'll prepare a birthday present for you."

"That would be—what?"

After hearing the gift, the teenager's eyes lit up immediately.

"It's not a surprise if you know it in advance."

"Huh—who knows if it will be a shock at that time."

Charles glanced at the man in front of him with great distrust.

"I don't know that."

Listening to the man's extremely irresponsible words, Charles choked for a moment, and then heard Tom's nice voice ringing in his ears.

"After all, I don't quite understand what my cute little badger likes to do—and things."

"—!"

Meaningful!

Absolutely pointed!

Charles took a half step back and looked at the smiling man in front of him.

Oops, my ears are red again.