"....The key is inside. If you like, run out of the room, I will track you down. By then, you have complicated matters for yourself…"
As she remembered what the man said some hours ago, he lost the desire to run out of the room. And because she was very tired, she slept off. Early this next morning, she was the first to wake up and the man was deeply asleep. She summoned boldness and left the bed without making any sound. And whenever the bed made a sound, she would pause. The room was still dark. She stretched out and took the man's trousers and as she was about to bring out the key, it mistakenly fell from her hand and hit the ground. She felt the shock, widened her eyes and put her two hands to her mouth. The sound of the key made the man stretch his hands and turn himself on the bed. "I'm finished!" She thought and felt a lightning bolt striking through her heart. "You are mine," the man somniloquist and fell back asleep. When he gradually went back to sleep, Elisa took the key and wore her gown, but held her shoes in her hand. Without making any noise, she moved to the door, opened it and went out of the hotel. When she came out, the rain was still falling but with less intensity. Inside the rain, she walked away from the hotel building. To her, it was a house of terror. She never felt the rain dropping on her body and she kept looking back to see if anyone was following her. Her entire body was shivering. She stood alone on the street waiting for a cab and the day was still dark. Then she saw a car coming from her right. She quickly waved her two hands. "Please help me!" She cried out.The car stopped and before the cabman would say anything, Elisa burst into tears. "Please take me from here, I was robbed." She wanted to gain sympathy from the driver. Reluctantly, the man allowed her into the car with her wet gown. Elisa sat in the back seat and folded her hands together. She was cold. "Where are you going?" The driver asked. "23, Reynolds estate," she replied with a fluctuating tone. The driver kept looking at her with a rear mirror from time to time and there was much curiosity on his face. Thirty minutes later, the car stopped at Elisa's house. She opened her wet small bag and paid the driver. She came down from the car and ran to her door. She tried to open the door, but the door was locked inside. She hit the door with all her energy and the banging echoed afar. Some minutes later, the door opened from the inside. In ferocity, she pushed the door. The first thought that came into her head in splits of second was, "What is this bastard doing in my house?" She thought. "Get out of my house. You demon." She shouted at the top of her voice. She was like a mad woman. Douglas was putting on his blue nightgown. She dragged his gown and wanted to push him out the house, but Douglas resisted her and knelt down. "Please forgive me," he begged. "I can explain. Please listen to me." "After betraying me, after making me lose my virginity? You still have the audacity to sleep in my house. If I had a gun, I would have killed you on a spot. It doesn't matter how many years I spend in jail." The cold in her body left at once and she kept vibrating and she didn't give Douglas time to speak. Douglas knelt down and his two hands were together. "Please, listen to me," he begged again. His tone of begging kept irritating Elisa and when she thought about the painful penetration and without any sign of sympathy from that stranger, tears rushed out of her eyes. "You sold me like a commodity. You fooled me like a goat." "I can explain. Please listen to me," he replied. "I can only listen to you when you are out of my house. There is no way I can listen to your garbage words while your feet are inside my house." She pointed outside her door. Douglas saw her firmness then stood up and went out, while Elisa jammed the door and locked it inside. She rested the back her head on the door and held her head with her hands. "I'm sorry. You saved my life." Douglas shouted outside, but Elisa did not reply to him. "I'm sorry. I gambled and I couldn't pay. The money was too big. They wanted to take my life. There was no way I would have survived it. I'm sorry," he changed his voice. I would have been a dead man by now if not for you." "I would have preferred that you were dead." She shouted. "I don't have anything to do with you anymore. It's over. I survived your plot. You sold the person you claimed to love. I can never have anything to do with you. I almost lost my life because you love gambling. I wonder why I became so blind to have allowed you into my life to this extent?" She left the door and with an aggressive walk, she went into the room, took Douglas' bags. She opened the wardrobe in anger and dragged Douglas' clothes from the hangers and some were falling. With force, she pressed the clothes into the two black bags. In a rush, she came out of the room and briskly walked through the sitting room and opened the door. Douglas thought she had decided to have a change of mind. What he saw next was Elisa throwing his bags on him. "Where will I go?" He caught his bags. "To hell with you." She jammed the door again and locked it. "You would have thought of that before selling me to a beast." "I love you," he shouted. Those words brought Elisa to the window. Elisa was on her way to the room when Douglas said those words. "You love who? Me? She touched her chest and she couldn't hold her tears. "You never loved me. I'm just a tool in your hands. I never knew how I was blind to this moment. Do you think if you knee down and beg me, I will accept you back to my life? Am I mad? Or insane? You are not progressing my life. You are dragging me backward." "But you saved my life from those bad guys….I have no place to call home." Douglas shouted.Elisa didn't reply to his words again. She went inside and entered her bathroom. She stood under the shower after regulating the water to warm water. She lowered her face and her long hair continuously dripped water at its tips. She touched her private part, it was tender. That moment, she remembered every terror she passed the previous night. Her memories traumatized her and she walked around the bathroom. When she remembered the following statements of the man, "You are my product throughout this night to the next morning… I have bought you…I will track you down…" She stood still and covered her ears with her hands. It was as if the drunk man was whispering those words to her ears continuously. The entire day was a mess. She could not organize herself. She wept over the loss of her virginity and there was no way to recover it. She had made a solemn promise to her mum when she was about entering college, to keep herself until her marriage night. Just in a twinkle of an eye, she los
"A good friend of mine is looking for a maid. You can raise money from that to save your mother." He looked at her eyes and shrugged. That was the last thing Elisa was expecting. But in her present condition, she had no choice. She needed to raise money quickly to save her beloved mother. "I will accept it Sir," she forced herself to smile and at the same time, tears rolled down her cheeks she had cleaned before. From a classic white collar job to a menial work. What a switch of mental focus because of the action of her ex boyfriend. "If you like, you should ignore your house chores," her boss disdained her. Without being sarcastic to her boss, she asked his friend for the address of his friend. "Wait, let me call him to see if he has seen someone else." The man took his phone and called his friend who needed a maid. "Tell her to come," Elisa overheard the phone conversation. The man took a sheet of paper and wrote the house address and she left the office. Eli
Loveth did not wait for Alex to say something before she thundered, after seeing that much of Alex's wine spilled on her legs and very short skirt."You better come and clean this place." Loveth quickly went away and climbed the stairs to her bedroom. While Elisa turned and went to the kitchen to look for something to clean the wine on the floor.Alex sat down and waited for Elisa to come back to the sitting room. After some minutes, he stood up and went towards the kitchen. He found a nervous Elisa coming out of the kitchen with empty hands."I'm sorry Sir," she greeted with her hands on her back and she quickly looked at the floor."Come, let me take you to the laundry room. This is James' work, but let me assist you. In the laundry room, you can find something to clean the floor."His voice was like a drop of water on the surface of a calm sea and Elisa felt relief at once."I'm sorry Sir," she said again."It wasn't your fault. But next time, you need to be careful." They both wen
Elisa immediately turned back after having the feeling of seeing a ghost. To her surprise, it was Mr. Alex. His legs on the floor were noiseless and as Elisa regained herself. There was ease on her face when she saw that it was no other person, but Alex."Bring me a glass of wine to my room.""Okay Sir," and as she was about removing the oven mitts from her hands, she asked,"Which of the wines Sir?""The same one you made me poured away." He said and was looking at her."Same one? How will I know?" She thought. She tried to regain the smell of the wine and Alex saw her puzzling eyes."Give me a glass of Merlot wine," then he left the kitchen. Elisa reduced the gas flames and this made her spend more seconds in the kitchen. When she got to the sitting room, she saw Loveth. Her glimpse of her was fearful. She looked at Elisa as she went close to the wine bar. Immediately as she opened one of the glass doors of the bar, Loveth wanted to say something, she shook her body and stamped her
"Nothing ma." He stood still."Are you trying to hide something from me?" She stood up and widened her brown eyes at him."Nothing much ma, just that Mr. Alex asked me to send some money into the maid's account.""Why?" She asked surprisedly."I guess because of her health." He replied.Loveth slightly moved her body left and right while she stamped her feet on the floor.Hmmm…You may go." She said and went straight to the kitchen. When Elisa saw her ducking eyes and the way she entered the kitchen, she thought she had come to demand for her breakfast she had previously asked for."I'm about to bring your food," she spoke with suppressed apprehension."I'm not here for the food. I'm here to ask you a question." She took a breath of confidence and asked."Why do you come into this house when you know right well that you are sick?""What's happening my God? This is my first day of work." She quickly thought and during this time, Loveth was waiting."Am I not talking to somebody?" She mo
"I'm looking at her necklace," Alex replied.Loveth stood up in anger and put her hand on the necklace and dragged it. Her dragged detached necklace and the pendant was in her hand."If it is the necklace you are looking at, then I will better remove the necklace from her neck."Alex became angry. He stood up and left the dining table. Elisa could not challenge the surprising action of her mistress. She stood helplessly as she looked at Loveth holding the pendant of her necklace."Please give me the pendant. It was given to me by my mum. Please," she cried out."If this is what you want to use to seduce my fiance, then you have failed. He has nothing to do with you. You brat." She spoke to her face."I never wanted to do what you are thinking of, please give me my pendant." Elisa stretched her right hand towards Loveth."Get out of my sight, now," Loveth shouted. "What are you going to do? Fight me? Get your flirting hands away from my sight. Rubbish. See what you caused. Your cheap s
"But please, can't I open my eyes and follow you? I have a phobia for darkness. It frightened me so much that I want to pass out.""No problem, but give me your hand and let us go."They entered the lift again and they went up and stopped on the last floor."Come, this place is like a paradise, built to be seen by a person with a good heart. No one has the key or code to this door." He unlocked the door with his eyes and they went in.From the first step into the art gallery, there was an aura of a different world. It was like a cave, with ancient lighting. There were so many art works on the walls of this place. It was beautiful and the fine artistic works took Elisa's fear away. It was an admiration of one artwork that led to another."Wow…" she exclaimed unconsciously and walked inside and Alex was intrigued. This was the expression he wished the one he will bring here will express. The artworks were engraved in the wall. She walked in and was admiring and touching them while Alex
"Yes Sir. But I have been waiting and watching her to take the right step. And most importantly, I need your approval. I don't want to be ungrateful to do such in your house."Alex was looking at him as he voiced what seemed so dear to him."Okay." He bent the handle of his door and went into his room. James was still standing close to the door when Alex closed his door. It was as if Alex was dreaming."What just happened?" He shook his head as he first sat down. "What have I done? Why did I allow my feelings to push me to say those words to my maid? She lied to me. No, no." He hit his fingertips on the table. Does she think she is so smart that she can successfully date me and my butler? That is nonsense, a let down on my way. I should have been patient enough. Oh! no. Can you imagine? I wanted to engage her because of my uncontrollable feelings for her. But right now, the words of James, I will distance myself from her." Alex stood up from the chair and took his car key."What if Ja