Chapter 0271

Terry narrowed his eyes a small margin. Julian had put him in a corner now. It would seem almost cruel to deny Piper, especially with Julian himself defending her.

“Hurry back,” Terry said, voice silky smooth for the watching cameras.

“I will,” I promised, a blatant lie, and hurried away from the table.

Outside the dining room, I turned to a lingering servant.

“Excuse me, can you direct me to the bathroom?”

But the servant, eyes downcast, gave no indication that he even heard me. This place was a hell–scape. God knew what these poor people endured on the regular.

I left the servant without a word and sought out the bathroom on my own.

After a few minutes, I easily found Nicholas. All I really had to do was follow the sound of his cursing.

The bathroom door was halfway open. He sat on top of the closed toilet lid with a small waste bin between his knees, as he callously plucked the shards of glass from his hand and dropped

into the

and it had been a servant. They held out a basket for me. Inside was cleaning wipes and bandages.

you,” I said, heartfelt. With the way they had obviously been trained

the entire encounter did they look at

the door, I knocked on the wood and pushed

tense. When he saw it was me, he exhaled

I said, coming

dropped my gift basket onto the edge of

see,” I

me. “I got most of the glass out, but I can’t see the underside as well. There’s one piece stuck in there, I can feel

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set to work. The shard was clearly

clenched his teeth but didn’t otherwise react as I quickly removed the glass and dropped it

“Better?”

sighed in relief. “Yes. Thank you.”

sink. We’ll clean

at me a little.

blushed, realizing how demanding I had sounded. “I

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