Chapter 131: Speaking the Virtus's Language

[Juliette’s POV]

Routines were thrown out the window—that was the first major change in the Virtus household. Which felt strange.

As soon as I passed through the iron gates that guard the Virtus grounds from outsiders, I felt like a soldier reporting for duty. Immediately (even though I was away for months), I remembered the exact timing for each meal and the chores I was supposed to do at each particular time of the day.

However, this time, I was told that I had no schedule at all, just as my life had been all these years at the Lux mansion.

Ralph took me to the ends of the plain field—which Margaret had already showed me. But I didn’t mind seeing it again; with Ralph, it was more fun—the way his thick brows knit whenever he saw the stretches of barren land beyond his property, it exuded the alluring charm of a man with great ambitions.

That fierce gaze seemed to say: one day, every inch of this flat terrain will belong to the Virtus—just as every inch of the terrains surroun