Chapter 254: Summoning Thomas
Thomas followed the maid. He didn’t care for her name, but she was the same maid who came to get him three days before. Thomas touched his neck—the wound had healed completely, but he knew he hadn’t recovered from the crown prince putting a sword to his throat. Not just any sword, his own.
This was a bad idea, but he had turned the maid away three times, and each time she came back, desperately pleading. Rose should just ask the crown prince—he wanted nothing to do with this—but yet here he was, making his way to her bedchambers to hear what the issue was.
Thomas decided he wasn’t going to do whatever she wanted. He would sternly tell her no and be on his way. He also needed to tell her she couldn’t keep summoning him like this.
Chelsy stopped in front of the room and knocked twice. She could feel Thomas’s glare on her back. He didn’t say anything as she led him here, but his stare was enough to make her tremble in her boots.
When she went to call on him for the fourth time, she was certain he would strike her down, and if Rose didn’t seem like it was a life-and-death situation, she wouldn’t have tried again.
Chelsy doubted he was that much older than she was, but he terrified her. It was also the plain fact that he could be very cruel—he would punish her if she so much as looked at him wrongly.
As soon as the door to Rose’s bedchambers opened, Chelsy bowed to him and fled the scene. She didn’t care to wait to see if Rose needed her. She would return, but for now, she needed a moment away from the lord.
"Lord Thomas," Rose curtsied, watching Chelsy flee from the corner of her eye. Seeing her run was so funny Rose had to hold back a laugh.
She couldn’t blame the child. Every time she sent her back to Thomas, she would return looking paler and paler. She felt bad sending Chelsy back and forth, but today was the last chance she had.
Thomas narrowed his eyes as he stared at the top of her head. He had seen her face before she bent her head. She didn’t look like she was getting enough sleep, and she looked pale. Not the kind of pale gotten from being indoors—it was something more.