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.

easily found Nicholas. All I really had to do was follow the sound of his

closed toilet lid with a small waste bin between his knees, as

I felt a sudden tapping on my shoulder. I turned, and it had been a

way they had obviously been trained to

did they look at me. Instead, they turned and

the

second, body suddenly tense. When he saw it was me, he exhaled long and slow, and

coming into the

dropped my gift basket onto the edge of the sink and came near

me see,” I said.

but I can’t see the underside as well. There’s

it.” I set to work. The shard was

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

“Better?”

relief. “Yes. Thank

sink. We’ll clean

a little.

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