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

the

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

the gift quickly. “Thank you,” I said, heartfelt. With the way they had obviously been trained to be obedient only to Terry, I knew this offering came with

the entire encounter did they look at me. Instead, they

knocked on the wood and pushed

saw it was me, he exhaled

said, coming into the room.

plopped back down on the closed toilet lid. I dropped my gift basket onto

see,” I said.

hand toward me. “I got most of the glass out, but I can’t see the underside as well. There’s

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set to work. The shard

quickly removed the

“Better?”

sighed in relief. “Yes.

to the sink. We’ll clean you up.”

at me a little. “Yes, ma’am.”

blushed, realizing how demanding I had sounded. “I didn’t mean…”

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