Chapter Seventeen
Julie's point of view
I did not tremble, nor did I even try to justify my position.
Instead, I raised my head with a pride that made the long shirt sleeves hang down even further, and I looked at her with a coldness that provoked her more than my silence did.
I knew that seeing me in her "master's" clothes was the straw that broke the back of her patience.
I said to her in a calm tone, deliberately provoking her madness:
"Why don't you ask him? And aren't you the supervisor who knows everything? Why do you come to ask me?"
She was clenching her knuckles so hard her skin turned white, and she approached me with rapid steps that nearly consumed the ground between us, saying in a voice choked with intense resentment:
— "Mr. Robert's room is forbidden to everyone... how did you enter, you witch?!"
I froze in my place for a moment; I won't lie, I was shocked to learn this.
