Chapter 26

I didn't bother treating the wound on the side of my lips and instead spent the last ten minutes being drowned with my thoughts. Staring at the ointment on my lap. I was reminded of how disappointed Nicholas was as he stared at me because I thought so lowly of myself.

Just when I was about to close the first aid kit after I put the ointment back inside of it. A small voice urged me to take it with me. I contemplated but in the end, that so-called small voice won.

The Spencer's mansion became a ghost town. I couldn't find their traces, not that I wanted to see them. We are mad at each other and we might end up screaming like uneducated people if we ever see each other again.

Just when I was about to pull one of the double doors in front of me to leave their mansion. I felt a presence standing behind my back. The woody scent of his perfume plays with my nose.

"Niklaus," I said his name and slowly turned around.

He took another step closer to me. His eyes were stern and cold, almost