Chapter Forty Five

Kazia

I followed Nancy into the laundry room, with Portia trailing not too far behind. The moment we stepped inside, I was taken aback by the sheer number of curtains that filled the room. It was as if an entire palace's worth of fabric had been stuffed in here. Portia let out an exasperated sigh, and I could tell she was less than thrilled by the sight in front of us.

"How many curtains are there?" Portia asked, annoyance evident in her tone. "Do we really have to wash all of these ourselves?"

Nancy simply pointed at the pile and replied coolly, "Count them if you're so concerned. You're here to wash them, aren't you?" She responded, and her rude tone only made me more irritated.

I felt my own frustration rising. "Why isn't Lady Agrippina having the servants do this? As far as I remember, washing clothes isn't our job, and it is most certainly not the job of two people to wash this many clothes," I said, hoping for a reasonable answer even though I already had a feeling that I wasn'