Chapter 12

DAHLIA :

“I shall wait for you… After you take a bath getting rid of all that oil on your body and make yourself presentable, I will take you where the master would want you. You don’t have to put in your head any high position. You are a slave and shall stay so until your last breath. Even if you had children, Don’t think they would gain title or position. They would stay bastards and that… If you managed to stay alive more than a month.”

I nodded as a sign I understood perfectly her words. The woman who led me through dark corridors to the servant’s quarters was an adult in her fifties. She had brown hair with hints of white and pale blue eyes that couldn’t attract even the smallest attention. Everything was all tidy and intact, even the small bathroom I was pushed into wasn’t that bad. A small bathtub in the corner with cold water and a mirror, which wasn’t even big.

My toe touched the water and it was cold, I shivered but still jumpe