Love For Hire

Chapter 10: 10

Nicholas sat at the table watching Kinsley enjoy the French toast the cook had prepared for breakfast. It was two thick fried toasts with powdered sugar, syrup, hand-whipped cream and fresh-cut berries. Along with the French toast were a few sausage links, some bacon, and a tall glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. Kinsley was devouring her meal, having worked up a mighty hunger from their earlier encounter. On the table in front of him the same meal, but as always, his remained untouched. Everything except the full glass of fine expensive cognac in his hand that he had been sipping since they sat down.

Kinsley swallowed the food in her mouth and then looked at Nicholas, who smiled at her. “Still not going to eat?”

“Not hungry,” he said.

“You know I have known you a few days now, and I have never seen you eat so much as a single bite. How are you not dead?”

“The human body can go days without food,” he told her.

“True, but that does not mean they should,” he just smiled and sipped his drink. “That is another thing. “It is not even ten in the morning, and you are drinking liquor straight up.”

“Yes, well, I am an alcoholic.”

“Seriously, or are you just teasing?”

“Drinking is one of the very few pleasures I have left in life.”

“It is not healthy.”

is the least of my problems,” she paused and watched him without a word. “What?” He

am watching you enjoy your breakfast,” he

in America and not back in

He is running a clinical study, trying to find a cure,” he scoffed. He had little faith in him living long enough to find a cure. “My father insisted I come here so the doctor could treat me and monitor

you are here

“Correct.”

the medical system in Kustium

system. It is just that the top doctor in this

long are you

am either cured, which is unlikely, or I am dead… which is far more likely,” he did not want to

like to go out,” he frowned. “Now I know you said you do not like to go out. But we can only do so much cooped up in this huge house. It is a nice house, do not get me wrong, but it would be nice to get

to say no, but the pleading hopeful look in her eyes was hard to say no to. “Where would

is a carnival at the Pier. Why don’t we

could not be seen so unkempt in public. “Just let me wash up and groom a little, then we will go,” he stood up, and she did the same. “No, please, sit, finish your breakfast. I will be back down later,” he promised and then made his way up to

his way to the stairs, he

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