[Lovebite]

It took more than a day for Orvin to return to work, he sent in letters to the staff and the masters of the house about his disappearance, finding a way to avoid coming in for an entire month. Though even by the end of the month, money was again tight and he had to don his suit once more, a new one that he had received for his birthday from his daughters. Well technically his daughters, they had sewn the buttons onto it and his wife had done the rest, though it made him feel like he had an extra layer of protection in that house. For the next and first month back, the man had evaded the masters of the house skillfully, the servants making up for his absences and slipping him tea for his nausea when he could barely stand. It was well into the third month after the incident that the excuses and hiding couldn't cover for him any more, and he was called up into the Lord's office.