Noelle stopped talking.

After breakfast, she cleared the table and did the dishes in the kitchen.

Laurence followed her into the kitchen and watched her clean up. He said, “We have staff to do the work for us. You don’t have to do everything yourself.”

While scrubbing a plate, Noelle replied, “If I don’t keep an eye on your food, you’d have been drugged and bedded by countless women.”

Laurence had zero comeback.

It was true that quite a few tried to slip something in his drink, and the