The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0265

While the princes were giving interviews with the camera crews, Terry and a few of his servants escorted the candidates, including myself, on a tour of his mansion.

When the plan had been suggested, I had seen the worry in both Nicholas’s and Julian’s gazes, but their concern was merely blinding them to the benefits of such a move. If I could take the tour, perhaps Terry would show us to some of his more private offices. And if I could sl*p away…

I tried to convey as such with my eyes, unable to privately speak with Nicholas and Julian, but my efforts only seemed to double their worry. I wouldn’t be waylaid from my plan, however. This was the reason we had even pushed to have this event.

We needed the dirt on Terry, and this was the perfect way to find it.

Terry led the way, with the candidates behind, and the servants following. I had hoped there would be enough of us that I would have a chance to sl*p away. As it was, Terry kept me in his shadow. He touched my wrist when I dared stray too far from his side.

The gleam in his eyes made me nervous to openly disobey, almost like that was what he wanted me to do, so that he could put into practice his promise of… breaking me.

I shuddered at the thought. I could only imagine the horrors of what that would entail. From what it sounded like, my consent was not a part of the equation.

Finally, after several long minutes of waiting for Terry’s guard to drop, Jessica stopped him and asked about one of the artworks.

“Is this real? These brushstrokes look fake,” she said.

Terry’s entire face went red with outrage. “I can assure you this is legitimate, young lady.”

He walked closer to her and the artwork in question. He reached out, tracing the lines of the brushstrokes without actually touching the painting.

his early work. If

even with the servants. None of them looked at me. None seemed to notice or care when I

until I was near a corner of a hallway. Then, just as I reached it, I turned and darted down the hall.

hadn’t shown us down this hallway. I had no idea where I was going. But this was the only

not to ask too many questions when hit with

ducked my head into every open door. I found many bedrooms, some closets or storage rooms, a few sitting rooms,

to make sure it was empty, I ducked inside.

in its place and no stray papers in

with manila folders, and began fl*pping through them. They all seemed innocuous: copies of electric and water bills, a statement from an internet provider, an estimate for next

made me wonder if this was even Terry’s office at all. The walls were trimmed in gold, but I was learning from the tour that Terry

could easily be his accountant’s office,

One drawer held a fancy paperweight with no papers underneath. The drawer nearest the desktop was filled

written on the notepads. The pens were all symmetrical and identical. They gave nothing away.

to be incriminating in the slightest. Or, if it was, I would need an accounting degree to be able to

Maybe I still had time to check another room before my absence would be noticed enough for me to be actively looked for. My bathroom excuse would only carry me so far. After an

I came close to the door, suddenly, it slammed shut. A lock turned. I

sound of breathing too loudly would

to cease, and then I waited a minute more to be

hadn’t panicked, expecting there to be a knob to turn on the inside. There’was no lock on the

anyway. Maybe I had been hearing things. Yet when I turned the doorknob, it clattered and would not open. The door was

I was trapped.

was I going