After leaving the shop, I instantly went to seek out Nicole to speak about one thing.

When she heard the request that I had, she could not assist knitting her brows and revealing an unpleasant expression.

After she completed listening to my request, she checked out me and requested, “My lord, are you severe about this?”

I simply responded with a easy nod.

Nicole knitted her brows much more when she heard this. Then she stated, “My lord, are you aware what the implications of doing one thing like that is?”

I gave one other nod with out saying something.

The 2 of us simply stared at one another after this.

Nicole tried to stare me down along with her glare, however it did not work in the long run.

So with out a alternative, she gave a sigh and stated, “Do what you need then.”

The look on her face made it clear that she had resigned to accepting this as destiny. She would simply let me do what I wished and see the way it turned out.

However it was additionally clear that she thought that this might finish in failure.

To be sincere, I did not have a lot confidence on this plan both because the different aspect was that pig of a rely. The way in which that he had handled me had made it clear that he did not give a flying shit about me.

So it was very probably that he would fully ignore my request within the first place.

However there was nothing else that I might do on this state of affairs.

I wanted the assist of the rely since I did not have any forces of my very own on this metropolis.

I used to be simply hoping that my notion of the rely was appropriate and I’d be capable of persuade him.

After she made her resolution, Nicole left the carriage to care for this matter.

Very quickly, I used to be summoned to the rely’s manor once more.

This time, the therapy was fully completely different.

As an alternative of being made to attend and being saved out by the guards, I used to be proven proper inside and led to a room the place the rely was ready for me.

Once I got here into the room, the rely narrowed his eyes to take a look at me earlier than gesturing for me to take a seat down.

I sat down in entrance of him the place he gestured earlier than ready for the rely to talk.

Because the decrease ranked noble, my place was decrease than that of the rely, so the one that ought to wait is me. However the rely did not say a factor as he sat there gazing me, as if he was sizing me up.

Lastly, after a protracted interval of silence, the rely stated, “So, you wished to see me?”

The way in which that he stated this appeared like he was asking a query, however in reality, he already knew what the reply to this query was. He was the one which had invited me right here, so in fact he knew what I wished.

However I nonetheless performed alongside as I nodded and stated, “I’ve one thing that I wished to debate with you.”

The rely nodded earlier than gesturing for me to proceed.

I stated, “I need to borrow a couple of males from you to care for some enterprise that I’ve within the metropolis. It can solely take a couple of days and I promise to return these males to you with out hurt. In the event you can be so type as to simply accept this request, then I promise that I’ll repay you tenfold sooner or later.”

The rely narrowed his eyes to take a look at me after listening to this earlier than saying, “The one motive that I agreed to fulfill with you was due to your “generosity” and now you are asking one thing of this from me. Do you actually assume that I’d conform to one thing like this?”

The “generosity” that he was referring to was the bag of cash that I had Nicole move to the rely.

This was the primary motive why he was even prepared to see me within the first place.

In any case, if I used to be prepared to present him cash the primary time, then it was doable that I’d give him cash a second time.

However I wasn’t fearful once I heard the rely’s phrases.

That was as a result of I might see from his eyes simply what he was after.

He may not be prepared to conform to this, but when there was sufficient cash, then he may very well be persuaded.

What he was doing now was requesting extra money be introduced out.

So I reached into my pocket and pulled out one other small bag that I placed on the desk.

With out a phrase, the rely reached out to take the small bag and put it in entrance of his face as he opened it. When the flicker of gold got here from the bag, there was a smile that appeared on that fats face.

With the face twisting from the smile, it actually was an unpleasant sight.

However I saved my feedback to myself as I waited for the rely to complete counting the cash inside this small bag. When he gave a happy nod and tied up the bag, I continued, “I belief that needs to be sufficient. So can I rely in your help?”

The rely turned again to take a look at me earlier than immediately revealing a smile and saying, “What help?”

I could not assist being greatly surprised once I heard this earlier than saying, “Your grace, the request that I made earlier…”

The rely stated with the identical smile, “In fact I will not be accepting that.”

My face twisted a bit once I heard this as I stated, “However the cash…”

The rely minimize me off by saying, “That is thought of a session charge that I can be retaining. You possibly can go away now.”

I did not know what to say once I heard this.

I had already identified that this pig rely was shameless, however I by no means thought that he can be this shameless.

However since he had already spoken, there was nothing that I might do…

Particularly because the guards on the door already put their palms on their weapons.

So I had no alternative however to depart the room.