Chapter 283 Just To Let Her Sleep (2)

• I looked down at her and saw her eyelids scrunched as she pretended to be asleep. I stood motionless a long while, despite my urgency to go appease the brothel’s madam. I didn’t move until I knew she’d really fallen asleep again. Until her eyes became bleary and her body had relaxed.
• Then I padded to the door and slipped out.
• John Thomas met me at the bottom of the stairs. “They’ve been asking when you’d be done. I’ve kept them at bay thus far but she was set on kicking you out any minute.”