Nikolai pulled his pants back on, then led me back into the dining hall. It was empty.
He moved me through another door, and steam hit me. He shut the door and the steam cleared, revealing girls in white fluffy robes and towels lounging over three blue-tiled, giant, square hot tubs.
There was a platform at the end of the room with stained glass framing the wall in the shape of a window, and a fountain, the water pouring down from a hidden source, running through channels in the tiles to fill the tubs.
I tugged my dress around me like a robe, the silk ripped down the middle. I crossed my arms and followed Nikolai over to the platform where Braxton and Derik were, white towels around their waists.
Braxton was grinning, looking me up and down as Derik rolled his eyes. I didn’t miss the wh
