Love For Hire

Chapter 36: 36

Kinsley answered the door after buzzing Octavius in. She had been surprised he had come to see her. She stood in the doorway and watched as he stepped off the elevator and came in her direction. “Hello, Octavius.”

“Miss. Wells,” he nodded politely and then held up the tablet he had in his hand. “I am sorry to bother you, but we are leaving for Chicago in an hour. I just needed your signature,” he explained, handing it to her. She read over a digital consent form.

“What is this for?”

“It is just written consent to allow the royal family to pay off your debts and to grant them the ability to directly deposit a million dollars into your personal bank account, as agreed upon in the service contract you signed with the Prince. It is your compensation for your time.”

“Right,” She sighed. He made it all sound so casual. Like her fling with Nicholas had merely been a business arraignment. She was being paid off. Kinsley stared at the consent form. She offered it back. “I do not want the money.”

“The money is yours.”

“I told you I do not want it,” she did not want her time with Nicholas to be sullied and cheapened by getting paid.

“I have orders not to come back without your signature,” Kinsley sighed. She did not want to make things harder for Octavius. Using a stylist that clipped to the top with a magnet, Kinsley signed the digital form and handed it back to him. “Thank you, Miss. Wells.”

“How is Nicholas?” She asked before he could leave.

revived. He is skeptical about the outcome but

him

him. “I shall relay

“Watch over him.”

always do,” he promised, and then Kinsley watched as Octavius left.

the other hand, she was now debt-free and a million dollars richer. She could afford to get her own place. Hell, she could buy a house outright and maybe a car

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of Chicago, one

enough to participate in the physiotherapy they had planned. So for three weeks, his only task was to eat and to keep down food. For years Nicholas despised eating because

side, but to his withered muscular structure, they might as well had weighed 500lbs. They were trying to build upper body strength so

not even needed his pain killers. His vision was still gone, and he still

as he lifted Nicholas’ leg up into a bent position and slowly pushed it, so his knee touched his chest before straightening out the leg and then repeating the motion. He had done it to one leg

his therapy. The muscles had atrophied, and this exercise helped to stretch the tight muscles in the legs out and helped him keep limber enough to engage in the physiotherapy in the clinic. Nicholas was not strong enough to do it on his own, so Octavius helped him. They went through this routine three times a day, and it

Octavius had to do almost everything. He would help in and out of bed each day, in and out of his wheelchair. He helped Nicholas clean up and groom himself each day. He’d help him bathe, and then he would shave Nicholas and help him brush his hair and teeth. Only a true friend would bathe another man. The first week and a half, he had even spoon-fed Nicholas until he regained enough strength to feed himself.

but he was now strong enough to feed and groom himself. After a long day of therapy at the center, Octavius would help Nicholas back into his bed. Then he would sit in a chair near the bed and read the newspaper to entertain Nicholas. Octavius was ever vigilant, and Nicholas knew even if he

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