Nicholas Pov After waiting some minutes and my partner was still not back, I decided to go and get ready. I didn't want to be the reason why you will have to wait or anything that will have to make them complain that I stayed too long, I said to myself. I stood up and took off my shirt as I stared at the mirror in just my trousers on . There was nothing I could do. I just have to be there. After all, I am the and I don't think that can ever change. Just then, the door opened and my partner entered. I quickly rushed for my shed to put it on and that was when Laura walked in. I left the shirt back on the bed as she had already seen everything. She looked at me and then back to the ground. My partner rushed towards me and tapped me on the chest playfully. “'She is the one who can clean this room without telling anybody about it ,” he said to me and then rushed out. But just as he got to the door, he muttered a word that I could hear from where I was. “'You have to be quick. Okay?

“Who is she?” She asked again. Even if I didn’t want to say anything to my mother, I knew I had no choice. I had to tell her this particular thing. It was really important because if I tell her about Laura, maybe she would help me get Laura to be my escort for this little party she arranged. I tapped my mom on the shoulder as she turned to me. “Is there anything?“ I asked. “You who you are looking for, but you refused to say anything to me, and I don’t plan on forcing you,“ she said. I couldn’t help but chuckle as I summoned up the courage to tell her. “Just as I said to you, I’m in love with someone, but the only problem is this person I am in love with is in this Mansion. She is here, and I need your help to get her,“ I said to my mom. But something in her eyes, the way she gazed at me, it felt like she was not surprised. It made me a bit confused. I expected her to be surprised that I said something like this, but instead, I kept silent and just stood there. She immediately star

I stood up immediately like I was struck or something shocking had just happened. I looked away as I could not even bring up a perfect word to explain how disappointed I was and how I was not expecting her to treat me this weak. "Is this how you want it to be? Is this why you're acting this way? Is this why you're doing all this? You want me not to go at all. You just want to cause problems for me. You know that my life is stuck around Nicholas. He is the only one who can tell me what to do because he is the one who bought me for my first owner." I shake my head sideways. No. I cannot say something like that to her. I did not ever want to say something like that. All these imaginations need to fade away quickly." She cleared her throat, bringing me back to reality as I turned to her, "really, I just give you a condition and you stood up. Is that how much of no respect you have for me?" She asked. I shook my head sideways and rushed to her holding to her hem of address again.

We were soon in front of the grand gates and I could see that Laura was still very nervous. I turned to her and assured her with a smile. “Do not worry. Nobody's going to choke you inside there. I am the one who invited you, I am the one who wants you here so nobody has the audacity to go against my wishes,” I assured her. Just then the door was opened widely as all attention was on me or should I say on us because they were all so shocked to see Laura. Laura seemed to be working very carefully like she did not want to miss her step and disgrace herself but something about the atmosphere was just so different. The way everyone stared at us, the way everyone interacted with us, I could feel it. I could tell that something was not right but I did not want to say anything and just kept silent. We soon walked to our seat as I realized that Nicholas had only arranged for them to place 2 seats, mine and his. I thought he was already aware that I was coming with an escort. Laura looked a

After listening to those words from Nicholas, I wasn't able to believe he could actually say something like that to me. It made me miserable and angry that I have no choice. I tried to still serve him because he did not even look up at me for a second. And instead, Bride Nora, who had been looking at me for a while, cleared her throat, which made me look back at her. “Don't you get it? Only Laura is allowed to serve him. All of you guys are just meh meh. She's the only special one. Yeah. Do you get that?” she said to me, but something about the way she talked and the way she looked back at Darius, I could tell that she intentionally said that those words maybe to get to Nicholas. This would even help. I think Ouiun and Bride Nora are not in a good terms either. I nodded my head and turned around as I silently left the room. I could hear Darius muttering some words to his mother, but I could not pick out any words from it. I go to the kitchen and saw some of the maids laughing an