"Scarlett!" The other maid in the Martinez mansion called her out grabbing her attention.
Yes, she is in Martinez's mansion working as a maid taking her mother's place. Ricardo, dragged her with him that day from the emotional state she was having holding her mother's coffin. Despite all the bad things that happened to her mother, her father didn't speak against Ricardo, for taking her away. As if he doesn't care anymore for her, her father just stood straight and looked down on the floor.
Ricardo, on the other hand, had different intentions with her, his gaze on her body always made her shiver to disgust. That day he didn't try anything physically with her but he did choke her when she slapped his face for ruining her perfect little family.
It's been two days.
Two days after that incident and Ricardo, hasn't done anything to her except ordering other maids to teach her the duties of doing the job. Then the next day she got to know he had left the city for some business. That instant gave her a relief as the thought of him staying in the same household did not settle well with her heart.
Ricardo, made sure Scarlett, was living in his chambers where his other whores were living. There were a total of ten of them and every one of them sympathized with her situation. Her heart clenched when she got to know how he keeps these women malnourished.
Then and there she made a promise to herself, if she is going to stay in this hell then she will make better use of it. She will obey everything to his requests and at his back she will help these women get their required necessities.
At least for the sake of her own sanity.
Her heart shattered the following day when he came back and also when she saw it was her father who drove him back to his kingdom. She begged with her eyes to take her away from this prison when he met with hers but it all became worthless when he just turned around and left again with the car.
She turned back with a broken heart trying to prepare herself to help the cook in the kitchen when she bumped into someone and stumbled down back on the floor with a loud thud. "Ah!" She gasped out in pain but that just went out of her mind when she saw the person she bumped into.
Ricardo.
His lips curl into a sinister smirk looking at the clumsy woman down on the floor right before his feet. He extended his hand towards her to take which she looked at it and only one thought came into her mind.
Killer hands.
Her mother's killer's hands.
Keeping only that in mind she put on a scowl on her face and stood up despite the ache in her spine by herself, she made her way back to the kitchen with her wobbly legs while Ricardo kept on looking at the fiery vixen.
And his smirk grew even wider when an evil plan formed in his head.
"Matilda!" He yells out the older maid's name, the only one from his workers he knows as she served him the longest ever without getting punished or worse, getting killed by him.
She rushed to serve her master leaving the mop she was using to clean the floor and stood in front of him bowing her head. "Yes master."
He shoves his hands in his pocket and orders, "I want my usual drink in my office, now."
"Ok master." She quickly nods at him before turning away to follow his order.
"Wait!" He objects to making her turn back again.
"Yes master?"
"Send the new recruit with my order."
Her eyebrow furrows, "Scar- Scarlett?"
He smiles nodding, "yes, my sweet Scarlett."
"Stella!" An angry grunt caught her attention and again she scolds herself internally to pace off from reality.
It gets difficult mostly because it's not her real name, she's not quite used to her fake identity but trying is learning and she is following very hard.
"Sorry, I was thinking something." She says to the grouchy person sitting beside her, Jones.
He lets out a chuckle, "well that's going to cause you a lot of problems."
"Why so? It's not like I'm doing something wrong while sitting in a car and thinking of my personal issues." She retorts but he shakes his head and makes a disappointing clicking sound with his tongue at her.
"And here I was telling you some important details about Mr. Knight. I thought I could help you out but I guess you prefer making grave mistakes." Suddenly his eyes grew with amusement and looked at her with a smirk, "perhaps, you want to make mistakes so that Boss can punish you in his way, right?"
Scarlett wanted to yell at his face and call him a disgusting pig for even thinking about her like that. "I love the fact that you care about my wellbeing so much instead of your family. Kind of a cute gesture coming from you Jones, but let me tell you one thing clearly; oil your own machine." She smiles widely at him. "Got it?"
Even though he didn't reply back , she knows she has won her battle and now, at least for now, he won't cross his line in the name of a joke.
She sighs thinking how her day out went by, first this morning how she humiliated herself in front of him, then, the conversation of drawing lines, then, driving to his office and taking Jones's weird comments on her, then again, catching Ezra that's too intimate with his assistant, she knows he wants her the same way he wants his assistant; just for pure pleasure.
Scarlett's the kind of person who loves mending the broken and helping who needs help. Seeing Ezra, too, makes her want to help him but it's too risky to even come close to forming a friendly relationship.
She doesn't want to be toyed by him or challenged by him; just wants her days to go by in peace with him.
The car reaches back to the Elite Society where she now belongs for the next five years as per the contract she signed.
"Here we come again." Jones mutters to himself but she hears it anyway. He went down the car when it stopped in front of the apartment building of Ezra's.
Scarlett gets down the car too and closes the door behind her; she smiles at the driver when their eyes had contact with each other but he didn't return the kind gesture back and drove away from the driveway.
She felt that attitude was kind of weird. Well, every worker of Ezra's seemed weird around her. No one, literally no one behaves properly with her but thankfully she will be staying inside all day alone in his house until he comes back home.
Well, she thought so wrong.
Just as she enters the destined floor to Ezra's house, she is delighted by the mere presence of an elder woman sitting upright on the couch of the living room.
"Excuse me madam, who are you?" She asks immediately, feeling alarmed.
The woman then turned to face her upon hearing, "wait a minute, who the hell are you?" Suddenly she stood on her feet and marched towards Scarlett, with a glare on her face. "How dare you step into this house even after hearing all the chaos going on against my son?"
There, she realized who she was when she mentioned 'son' as referring to Ezra.
"What are you here for?" She screams at her face.
She waits for her to calm down so that she can explain her part but she keeps on scolding her. "Mam, you are totally getting me wrong."
She gasps loudly, totally looks offended by her words, "you do have a lot of guts talking back to me, don't you? I know my son thinks with his dick and looks past the evil intentions girls like you have. This is why he gets in trouble and evils like you get all the rewarding support from the world."
"Mom!"
Both the women look back hearing the owner of the voice.
"Ezra!" His mother smiles seeing him entering the house, "I'm so glad you are back."
"Hold it mother," he speaks sternly at her and comes to stand beside Scarlett.
"Sir." She nods at him just as he stands beside her but froze once he puts his hand back at her slender waist.
That didn't get unnoticed by his mother though. "Mom, you have to kindly control your mouth around my employees. Remember she works for me and not for you, so, I will kindly ask you to talk politely with Ms. Robinson."
His mother chuckles humorlessly, "she works for you? I thought she's just a hook…"
"Don't even complete your sentence mom," he warns his mother sternly, "she's my new housekeeper, better get used to her presence starting by now."
She looks at Scarlett, again from toe to head with surprised eyes, "she is your maid?"