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CHAPTER 748
Seeing the look on Harold’s face, Millicent flinched."Don't you dare take that tone with me!" he hissed. His voice echoed through the quiet boutique as the shop assistants tactfully vanished into the back rooms. "I pulled you out of the dirt! You were fighting animals for bread, Mill! You would be dead if it weren't for me. You think you’re too good for me? You’re a nameless stray in a maid’s uniform!"He grabbed her arm, his fingers digging into her skin like talons. "I gave you a life, and I can take it away just as easily. Now, take the bags and get in the car. Not another word."Millicent stumbled toward the sedan, her vision blurred by hot, stinging tears. The warmth of Griffin Manor was gone. She realized then that she hadn't been rescued; she had simply been collected.**The air inside the car felt like it was thickening, turning into a suffocating fog of fear and betrayal. Millicent gripped the edge of her seat, her knuckles white. She looked at the man beside her, the
CHAPTER 747
When Millicent was led down to the basement, she didn't complain. To her, the room was a palace. As the heat radiated through the brick walls, she let out a long, shaky sigh of relief. It was warm, so much warmer than the oil-slicked highway or the freezing marsh. She curled up on the small cot that night, feeling safe for the first time since her world had turned to static.The days turned into weeks. Millicent became an indispensable ghost within Griffin Manor: efficient, silent, and surprisingly talented. When the head cook fell ill one afternoon, Millicent stepped in to finish the dinner."Where did you learn to cook like this?" Evelyn asked, actually finishing her plate."I don't know, Madam," Millicent replied with a small smile. "My hands just seemed to know what to do."But as the months passed, the atmosphere began to shift. Harold’s presence became more frequent in the rooms she was cleaning. He would appear in the library while she was dusting, his gaze heavy and un
CHAPTER 746
Standing just a few feet away, looking awkward and filthy against the backdrop of a thousand-dollar Persian rug, was Millicent. Evelyn’s smile didn’t just fade; it vanished, replaced by an icy mask of suspicion. She pulled her silk robe tighter, her eyes raking over Millicent’s matted hair and dirt-streaked skin with visible loathing."Harold," Evelyn demanded, her voice dropping an octave, "who, or what… is this? And why is it standing in our foyer?"Harold cleared his throat, his hand remaining protectively near Millicent’s shoulder. "She was wandering near the highway, Evelyn. I found her in a state no human being should endure. Since you’ve been complaining for weeks about the incompetence of the domestic staff, I thought I’d bring her back to fill the vacancy."He gestured between the two women. "Evelyn, this is Mill. Mill, this is my wife, Evelyn Griffin."Evelyn didn’t move. "A maid? Harold, she looks like she crawled out of a swamp. We have standards. We can’t just pick up
CHAPTER 745
Millicent’s mind screamed: Run! Danger!The memory of the man in the sedan was still scorched into her brain. She hit the cold brick of the grocery store wall, clutching the moldy bread like a treasure."No," she rasped, her voice cracking. "Go away."Harold didn't move. He simply stood there, his presence like a sturdy oak in a storm. "The animals will be back the moment I leave," he said gently. "And that bread will make you sicker than the hunger will."He saw her eyes darting toward the street, searching for an exit. "I have a daughter about your age," Harold said, a lie to settle her nerves. "I wouldn't want her eating from a bin. Just one meal, little one. If you want to leave after that, I will drive you wherever you want to go. My word as a gentleman."Something about that word, gentleman, felt like it belonged to the world she had forgotten. She looked at his hand again. It was clean, the nails trimmed, the skin unmarred. Slowly, she let the moldy bread drop into the dir
CHAPTER 744
The heavy envelope lay in the dust between them, a white rectangle of mocking victory. Evelyn stared at it, her vision blurred by tears, but as she looked up at Millicent, the grime of the slums seemed to peel away from the edges of her vision.The silence between them stretched, vibrating with the weight of years."You always did have a way with envelopes," Evelyn whispered, a ghostly, hysterical laugh bubbling in her throat. She looked at Millicent’s hands, now soft and manicured, resting on the armrests of her wheelchair, and remembered when those same hands were red and raw from the winter cold of the secondary estate. "Do you remember the first one? The one the Master gave you before I found out?"Millicent’s eyes didn't flicker. She didn't need to close them to see the image. The dusty yard of the slums vanished, replaced by the suffocating scent of lilies and the ticking of a grandfather clock in a room draped in gold leaf."I remember everything, Evelyn," Millicent replie
CHAPTER 743
Evelyn flinched as if she had been struck."I hate you because you knew," Millicent continued, her grip tightening on the armrests of her wheelchair. "You knew I didn't ask for that life. You knew it wasn't my fault that I carried Tedmond." She leaned forward, her eyes pinning Evelyn’s trembling form to the spot. "You knew the circumstances, yet you treated my pregnancy like a crime against your dignity. You used your power to tear a mother from her son. You made us live like ghosts, separate and starving, just so you could feel 'pure' in your mansion."The silence that followed was heavy, broken only by Evelyn's ragged breathing."I spent years wondering if my son was warm, if he was fed, or if he was even alive," Millicent said, her voice dropping to a dangerous, low hum. "I spent years in a hell you built for me. So, yes... I hate you. And seeing you sitting there in the dirt doesn't make that hate go away. It only reminds me of how much time we both wasted on your pride."Evely
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