Chapter 190

"This place rarely sees anyone. Even when the staff comes to get wine, they grab the bottles up front. So whenever I hid down here, no one ever noticed." Dominic bent forward, trying to sit down on the old sofa. His slender fingers brushed over a thick layer of dust-it clearly hadn't been cleaned in ages. "You used to live down here?" Louise frowned, her expression a mix of disbelief and discomfort. Given his background as an illegitimate son, she could imagine he hadn't had it easy at the Ellis household. But letting a kid stay in a place like this? That was just cruel. "Not really live here," Dominic shrugged lightly. "It was just where I came when I wanted to be alone... when I felt invisible." Everyone in the Ellis family had a kind of coldness that came from deep within. Even if his father accepted him without much fuss, Dominic always knew he'd only ever been a testing stone for Lucas. Unfortunately, that stone ended up being too sharp-sharp enough to crush Lucas beneath it, comp