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.

few minutes, I easily found Nicholas. All I really had to do was follow the sound

between his knees, as he callously plucked the

on my shoulder. I turned, and it had been a servant. They held out a basket for

heartfelt. With the way they had obviously been trained to be obedient only to Terry, I knew

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

on the wood and

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

I said, coming into

lid. I dropped my gift basket onto the edge of the sink and came near him.

me see,”

glass out, but I can’t see the underside as well. There’s one piece stuck

I set to work. The shard was

quickly removed the glass and dropped it into the wastebasket.

“Better?”

in relief. “Yes. Thank you.”

over to the sink. We’ll clean you up.”

me a little. “Yes,

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