Ahneeka pretended not to have heard what she did. Even if she did, she still held on to a string of hope that she had heard wrong or perhaps misunderstood what he had meant.
She picked up the sweeper one of the maids had left on the floor for her and began to sweep her puke.
It was almost as if she had accepted her fate of being Lawrence's wife.
Even though he was a smoker and an abusive person,he had the wealth many ladies would overlook his flaws for.
Thus,she resolved to act as if that were the case with her as well while she secretly thought of ways she would escape he torture she had been exchanged for.
"You have to be fast Ahneeka. The time is almost running off" she heard one of the nannies say and she turned to behold the lady's face.
She was pretty. Her face card was lethal and she had a nice stature that made Ahneeka question her duty in the house.
While still cleaning, she found herself busied with thoughts of whom the lady might be.
Her dressing was different from the others and she appeared bossy over them.
She wouldn't want to say but she had to admit,she was prettier than the other girls and the tight white dress she wore made her ass and gait way too visible and obvious.
She wouldn't just be a nanny like the others,there had to be something more attached to her role and with the way she called her name,not joining the others to remove the decorations that hung on the walls while she cleaned,she could sense that the lady had some sort of high autonomy in the house.
Filling her head,while cleaning with different thoughts in order not to bemoan her predicament, life seemed to have gone in order till the musky scent of a perfume filled her nostrils.
She immediately bent and hid beneath the table cloak in the parlor she was cleaning.
She knew that scent darn well.
Stanley had once had body odor before and always smelled, but that was till she had gotten the colognes a skin care therapist had recommend for her.
And the current scent she just perceived was his favorite pit of all the perfumes she usually got for him. There was no way she would miss out on that.
""Wait, did you think I cared about making her cum? A man needs to cum to create life. Women don't. I only married her for her virginity and to get even with her for you. She's just a slut to the public now. No one would even consider her a woman of substance""". The words replayed in her head.
Clearly she hadn't heard wrong. The voices she had heard and awoken from while she was still under the effect of the chloroform used on her earlier weren't lies.
It had been Stanley and the woman standing by his side her only sister,Cassie.
"Come on Cassie. I ended my marriage because of you. You can't go one questioning my love for you all the time. My actions already proves it " Stanley said as he and Cassie walked out of the exit door,hand in hand.
Ahneeka didn't know whether she was to cry or scream. She wanted to do one of the two. She just wanted her lungs to ache even for a few minutes.
She had been played.
For more than five years,she spent the onset of her life healing a heart she didn't break all because she had believed in his promises of a forever with her. How promises are swept under the carpet!!!
He had known all along and from the onset!! He has her as a replacement,a stand-in. A played dumb girl.
The very thought of it made it almost impossible for her to breathe properly. How she had been played.how diligent he had been for more than five years of their relationship, keeping quiet and peaceful,so very much that she didn't and never for once imagined he would betray her this way,in the most cruel inhumane way possible.
She snuck out of beneath the table she was under after she laid still waiting for the rev of their car.
She knew they knew she had been remarried to the problematic uncle, but more than it all, she didn't want them to know she had been made to clean the very first day she set foot into the mansion.
"You have six minutes left to finish up with the cleaning. The boss doesn't wait. He hates no shit more than that"
The nanny dressed differently spoke again and Ahneeka didn't get apprehensive this time around.
She wasn't interested. Her life was literally tilting on its axis, she had no time to worry about some maid who dressed more expensive than the others.
On hearing her say this,the other nannies had immediately left what they had been doing and came into the parlor to help Ahneeka out with the cleaning.
"You can take her now. We can finish from here" one of the nannies suggested but another opposed.
" She has more than four minutes left, she needs to join us and finish cleaning. Boss didn't ask us to clean. He asked her to do the cleaning"
This caused them to argue till another set of maids came from where Ahneeka belived to be a room and pulled her to follow them out.
The parlor still not finished cleaning.
She followed them diligently like a pig being led to a slaughter house. They knew the house and it's owner more than her, so she only had to watch what they wanted to do while writhing out the pain of the wiping she had gotten earlier, hoping not to get another.
"We have ten minutes to ready her. Just ten minutes" a matured lady who seemed like the head of this new set of maids said as the others brought her into the bathroom of a room.
They began to undo her dressing.
" Isn't she going to leave?" Ahneeka mustered courage to ask.
"Who? Anita?" One of the maids replied looking in the direction of the lady Ahneeka was pointing to.
Ahneeka looked at the lady she had learnt her name was Anita. The only maid who's rank seemed different by all ways and means possible.
She appeared to be in a class of her own.
"She is the boss' beloved. She's untouchable. Don't cross her" one of the maids whispered into her ears and she stood still,even though her eyes had such questionnaire look in them bewildered by what she had heard.
She watched at the lady undress in her presence, not acknowledging her or giving a helping hand to the others, instead she undressed herself.
Ahneeka's mouth was left ajar when she saw her walk into the very same bath tub the ladies were preparing her for a bath in,and no one said anything to her. Not even the oldest lady amongst the maids.
Something was off and Ahneeka didn't need new telling that there was a faulty foundation with the household she had just joined.