First I just ignored it but when this started happening regularly, I google him and that's when I came to know that Bryan Miller is the number one billionaire in this country. And yeah, dad does hate him so much. Dad can really kill Bryan. He won't even think twice.
"You should just let me go and take the money my dad is paying you. You may not know but he can even kill people who don't obey him." I warned him.
"I know it better." He said looking sad for a moment and then suddenly bent down bringing his face close to mine with bitterness in his eyes.
"Don't you think you should worry about yourself rather than worrying about me?" He said with a smirk. I tried to move back scared.
"Don't worry I won't even touch you. You have the filthy blood of your father in your veins. I don't want to get my hands dirty by touching you." He said moving back. Tears brimmed my eyes. My dad has never liked me and he has said a lot of mean stuff to me but he never called me filthy.
He looked at me with sympathetic eyes for a moment but in the next second, he was back to his stern face.
"Call Mrs Green." He told to the guy who is still standing behind me.
I struggled to keep myself from crying and breaking apart. I don't want him to think I am asking for his pity. And as for him, he kept staring at me. It was the longest two minutes of my life.
"Bryan, you called for me?" She said hurrying inside.
"Mrs Green! From tomorrow on, she has to wash my clothes with her hands, clean my room, dust the whole house. Just use her to the fullest! If there is nothing left, make her clean the servants' quarters. Just don't let her enter the kitchen or my study. I don't want her to poison us. Feed her well, you know I don't like to see anyone starving when they are in this mansion." He instructed the woman in her mid-fifties.
"Is she?" She asked.
"Yes." He replied and she nodded her head.
What was that?
"Now, please take this filth to the place she belongs to." He said rubbing his temples.
The guy who dragged me from the car came into the room and yanked my arm, making me stand and dragged me out f the room to the end of the long hallway. He opened a gate and he walked down the stairs into the basement.
He opened the lock of one of the rooms and untied my hands.
He pushed me inside, switched on a dim light and locked the door back again.
I heard his leaving footsteps.
I started coughing. I looked around myself only to find, dust covering the whole room. I covered my nose and mouth with my dress, coughing and sneezing. I am allergic to dust. The room only has an old torn rug on the ground which I guess is for me to sleep on and a door which I think is the washroom.
Tears that I have been holding in, started flowing down my eyes. So, this is where I belong... I sobbed more. I opened my eyes to the dusty ceiling. So it was not a dream.
"Do you think this is your dad's house?" I heard a now-familiar voice and sat abruptly.
"Come upstairs in 15 minutes." He said and turned to leave.
"Bryan!" I said sneezing.
I think I caught a cold due to all this dust.
He looked at me shocked. Did I say something weird? Am I not allowed to even utter a word?
"What did you just call me?" He asked folding his arms and giving me a pointed look.
"Umm...Brya..." I was saying when he held his finger up in a gesture to stop talking.
"Do you think you have the right to call me by my name?" He asked and I looked down.
Mrs Green was calling him by his name yesterday so I thought he is cool with his maids calling him by his name. And I am also his maid even though he bought me and I won't be paid and not to forget he hates me and my dad. Yeah! I am not allowed to call his name. How stupid of me?!
"Let's see... what should I make you call me?" He said thinking deeply.
"Oh! I know! How about you call me bidder? That way you can never forget that I bought you with my money." He said so proud of himself. He is saying this as if I can ever forget that I was fricking auctioned and he bought me by paying seventy million! How can anyone forget such a thing even if they want to!
"What?" He asked losing his patience.
I gave him a confused look. Does he want me to praise his choice or does he want me to call him bidder?
"Didn't you want to say something?" He asked in annoyance.
Oh! Right!
"I wanted to clean this room before I go upstairs." I said looking around.
I can't live in this dusty room. I will definitely die here. I am still alive thanks to my brain who thought this brilliant idea of tearing a little piece of the dress I am wearing and using it as a mask. But I can't possibly sleep in this room wearing a mask every day, it's so uncomfortable. He started laughing.
"Who told you that you can clean this room? This place fits you." He said looking around.
"A filth in filth." He added and smirked at me.
I looked down. It pains me a lot when he calls me filth when I have never done anything to be called by such a name but I have decided I won't cry. I will show him how strong I am and then try to run away as soon as I find a chance to.
Dad won't get mad at me even if I ran away even if he can't find me.
"15 minutes." He said and left the room.
I just have to do my work well while getting familiar with this place and all the exits. I will definitely run away from here!
"There you are!" Mrs Green said as soon as I came upstairs. She was waiting for me.
"Come, I will show you what you have to do." She said and started walking ahead of me. I followed behind her looking around me as we walk.
"You will have to wash all these clothes and then dry them in the drier. You have to use your hands to wash them." She instructed me and then left.
I think she doesn't like me, not that I care. I am used to people not liking or caring about me since my dad is one of them. People always had an opinion about me as soon as they heard my surname but those who know me like me a lot though I keep a distance from them. Don't wanna make dad angry by making friends. He thinks that if I made friends then I will go out and spend money or worse fall in love and run away abandoning him. I know he doesn't care about me leaving but he cares that I won't be giving him my wages.
How I hope we never became rich.
I would trade everything to go back to those days when we used to live in that one-bedroom apartment.
I shook my head. I can't think about those memories. Even though they are precious, it's painful. It makes me think of mom and how she... I wiped my tears and closed my eyes. I have to be strong! I can't live in my past. I have to get out of here and go to Liam. Once he graduates, we can run away! He will be able to get a good job and I will get a job in any restaurant. I have to save myself and then save my brother! I have to be strong for us!
But first, I need to wash this pile of clothes. I sighed looking at them. I should get started.
"I can't believe you." I heard a girl's voice.
"I am telling the truth! A new maid was hired!" Another girl said.
They stopped right outside the laundry room.
"But she didn't come to the servants quarters." Said the first one.
"She lives in the basement. I saw Mrs Green waiting for her at the end of the hallway and then she came from the basement." The second girl said.
"Isn't that basement like super dusty. It hasn't been cleaned for months after on Mr Miller's orders." Said the first one.
"That's what's so strange. That basement is supper dusty plus it doesn't have any facilities. Our servants' quarter has a home theatre and even a library. Mr Miller is like so nice and supportive to us. He is so ready to give us whatever facility we need. He treats us like his family. How can he let that new girl live in the basement?" The second girl said.
"Is she pretty?" The first one asked. "Yeah! She is prettier than that Cara." She replied.
"Looking at how Mr Miller is treating her, he won't fall for her so that's good." The first girl said.
"I know! We already have a competition between us! Plus Mr Miller never even bothers to glance at us." The second girl said.
"Still I hope this girl doesn't seduce our Mr Miller." She said.
"She will be kicked out if she did. Don't you remember how Rose was kicked out after she tried to seduce Mr Miller?" The second girl said.
"That's true. I wanna see how this girl looks like. Where is she?" The first girl said.
"What are you two doing here?" I heard Mrs Green's voice.
"Nothing!" They said together.
"Stop gossiping and get to work." She said and I heard them leaving. "Are you done?" Mrs Green said from behind me.
"No." I replied.
"Try to do it fast so that you can eat your breakfast." She said and I nodded my head.
"What is that filth doing?" I heard the same annoying voice of my bidder which made me roll my eyes.
Thankfully I was facing the opposite side to them.
"Bryan! Did you want anything?" Mrs Green asked him.
"Nah! I just came here to see if this filth was doing her job or not." He replied.
They seem to have a really good relationship between them. They don't seem like a servant and master, but like mother and son.
They must have known each other for a long time I guess maybe since he was a kid.
"Bryan, isn't her name Mia?" Mrs Green asked.
"I prefer calling her filth." He replied.
"Don't you think that won't look good in front of other maids?" She said. He didn't reply anything.
There is no use giving him sense Mrs Green! He is just acting like a bully, calling me mean names! I squeezed his shirt I was washing in anger.
Snap... Snap...
I heard a camera clicking at looked to my side. He is taking my pictures! I gave him a 'What the?' kind of look.
"What? Continue doing your job." He said giving me a confused look.
I swear I am trying my best to not punch him right now. He is really annoying! I know he bought me but still! He can't just take my pictures without my permission!
"Now I will send these to her dad and wait for his reaction." He said excitedly leaving the room.
Mrs Green followed him out. Should I try seducing him and getting kicked out? Will he even kick me out when he obviously wants to get on my dad's nerves?