"What is going on here?" Lady Anabel came from behind.
With her golden hair and angelic face very fine in the dark corridors, her hands were folder on her chest, her eyebrows low as if standing in attention, ready to cause any havoc at the moment.
"You puny maid, how dare you waste my time? I asked you to get me tea, but this is what you gave me—a broken cup and a tea on the floor. What do you want?"
"Do you want me to bend to the floor and lick on it?" Lady Anabelle bends, holding the maid's face as she speaks.
The maid's shoulders tremble. Her innocent, beautiful face covered in sweat and shoulders tenses
"No, please, my lady, spell me. I will not do it again. Please spare me. It was an accident."
The maid trembled with obvious horror in her face. It was as if Lady Annabel was the biggest villain, and she was facing that villain.
"You know, you peasants are so quite stupid and foolish. You all want to always look for the noble's attention.
You get to any lengths to do stupid things. Aaron is your master and a senirips of this mansion.
But you stayed there, not minding your own path, but you followed his own path, and you bumped into him.
You think that I cannot read you! … I cannot know or see your intention, stupid, foolish maid."
Lady Annabel frowned and sighed, shaking her head as she pointed at the maid.
She did not forget to point out every secret that the maid was hiding. It was as if she knew all the maid's intentions, and she predicted it. "No, my lady, that was not my intention. I did not mean it." The maid's eyes widened, and she panicked. She shook her head, hurriedly trying to explain herself. She had done none of what Lady Annabel was saying. Let Lady Annabel leave her alone. Lady Annabel was just being dramatic. "Oh no, am I the bad guy? You think of me as the bad guy?" Lady Annabel bent down and slapped the maid. The slap echoed in the corridor. Aaron's eyes widened, seeing the slap.
It was unexpected. He hadn't expected it to turn to this point. Lady Annabel was saying weird things to the maid as if she wanted to punish the maid intentionally.
Although the maid had explained herself, Lady Annabel was still not talking. She was even using the excuses as if she were protecting him. Of course, Aaron knew that she was not protecting him. After all, she is the one who appears to hate him the most.
"Lady Annabel, please let the maid go. It was I that bumped into her. It was I that wasn't seeing my path, and I broke your precious tea and cup. Please let her go." Aaron's eyes widened.
He pleaded to Lady Annabel. Lady Annabel stared and looked at him with a smirk up and down.
Her frown wrote the words like she would not listen to his plea. "You better let go, brother-in-law, or you are going to regret crossing me.
Lady Annabel took her attention away from Aaron, and her attention was focused now on the maid, who was kneeling on the ground. Aaron frowned at this.
Lady Annabel wasn't listening. Truly, he was the one that created all this accident. He was so excited to come back from the Silver Hair Man place.
However, he was unaware that he would encounter a maid and cause such trouble for her.
Lady Annabel was appearing stubborn, and she wouldn't listen to him. And lady Anabelle, right now she looks so furious.
He was taking almost all the courage from his body to answer her at the moment.
"Lady Annabel, please. I did not do it. Please. It was not me. I did not do anything intentionally. Please let me go. Forgive me."
The maid pleaded. Her voice softened. Her eyes turned red as if exhausted, like she was using all the strength from her body.
Aaron watched this with guilt. The maid was stressing out her body, and it was all because of him. She was receiving all this harsh treatment from Lady Annabel because of him.
"Annabel, please let her go. Aaron tried one last time to make Lady Annabel stop. He wanted her to stop. The maid did not deserve this.
He should take the punishment of the maid in her stead. Annabel, please let the maid go. Don't do this to her." Aaron's sapphire eyes blinked, and he pleaded for Lady Annabel.
Lady Annabel, seeing his face, growled towards him and snarled, "Don't look at me with those eyes. I am not your husband. So disgusting."
After that, Lady Annabel seemed more enraged. Her eyes turned into a more furious frown, and she opened her red lips and shouted the name, "Marigold! Where is Evelyn? Evelyn!" Lady Annabel shouted like an owl, but Evelyn did not come.
Then, the maid Marigold came with an off-shoulder, wild maid outfit bouncing up and down like a rainbow, and she kneeled down before Lady Annabel.
"Marigold is at your service, Lady Annabel. What do you need of me?" Lady Annabel did not even look at Marigold's happy expression, and she told Marigold.
And she pointed straight at the maid living on the floor. "Take her to the dungeon. She will face the consequences for delaying my time and me."
After Lady Annabel spoke, happy giggles escaped from Marigold's voice. She beamed like a happy rainbow.
"Please, Lady Annabel, please give her to me. Let her be my. Don't take her to the dungeon... Let her be for me."
Lady Annabel's mood was almost cheered when she saw Marigold's reaction, but she still frowned and told Marigold.
"You are too greedy for your liking, Marigold. She is not for you. She is for the dungeon. Furthermore, she has committed enough that the punishment that suits her more belongs to the dungeon and not your hungry monster."
Marigold's eyes dropped with the moment of Lady Annabel's words. "Yes, my lady." Marigold bowed down, and she began dragging the maid like a rag doll on the floor.
While the maid was being dragged like a rag doll, cries escaped from her. She pleaded. "Young master Aaron, please save me. It wasn't me. I didn't mean it. Please, I don't want to die." "That dungeon, a terrible place. I don't want to go."
The maid started pleading. She pleaded. Anyone who looked into her eyes could have wanted to take her place and felt more guilty.
But then her plea shifted from a sincere plea to an accusing plea.
"You deserve this, Aaron. You did this to me. You should take my place. Come, master Aaron, take my place!!!".
The maid totally turned crazy and was yelling all around, and Aaron found his heart skipped; his chest was about to leave his body. He felt totally scared right now.
The yelling of the maid was cut off in his heart. He panicked. He bit his lip.
Why? All that was happening to the maid was his fault. This shouldn't have happened. What terrible things would she face at that dungeon? She did not deserve this. Aaron felt compelled to shed tears.