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 lost it without her consent. She kept thinking how stupid she was not to have read the deceptive eyes of Douglas. She locked herself in her room and she felt worthless. Going to her work was the least thing that crossed her mind that day. And she forced herself to sleep when she heard the continuous kicking of Douglas. Douglas stayed at the door with his two bags for a very long time. He was right. He had nowhere to go and he was addicted to gambling. Last night, he gambled with some fierce men who won all his money. Then he became optimistic all of a sudden and decided to play again. This time, he had no money. Unfortunately, he lost. The only way to bail himself was his life. They were at the point of taking his life with a gunshot when he said, "Can I give you my girlfriend for a night? She is a virgin."The head of the gang was not interested in making love that day, so he decided to sell Elisa at the club. In the end, they sold Elisa to a drunk man and made a five hundred percent gain on the transaction.******* The following day, Elisa rose up and got ready for work. She wore a navy blue suit and a white sleeve. Her silver coated shoes had small heels at the end. The past twenty-four hours was enough to mourn over the brutal loss of her pride and to forget what happened with the drunk man. Before leaving the house, she changed the position of the ring in her hand and put it on her left index finger. She looked at the ring in the mirror as she raised her fingers and sighed. Elisa was 5"6' tall, with a pear body frame. Her long ebony hair tumbled over her shoulders. She had heart-shaped lips. Her glossy skin, velvet eyelashes, dainty nose and her rapture-blue eyes set her from her contemporaries. In spite of her recovering sad mood, her cheerful personality had a way of leaving a spike on cheeks. She took her black office bag and came out of the house. This was the first time she came out of the house since the day her boyfriend exchanged her for his life. To her surprise, he boyfriend had written on her entrance door with a white mark, saying, "Please forgive me. You saved my life."She hissed and went back into her house. She came out with a brush and cleaned off his writings before going to work. It was exactly 7:50 AM when she opened the door of her office and entered. Then she saw a brown envelope on her desk. She quickly opened it and saw that she had been given a query. There was a special task she needed to do yesterday that she was absent from work and on the query, she was asked to see the CEO that morning. The CEO's office opens by 9 AM, so she needed to wait. She quickly switched on her computer to see if she could begin the task. When the computer finally finished booting, she discovered that she had no access to her portal page. Her password and names were incorrect. "I haven't been given a query before," she contemplated and rested her head on the desk. "I hope not what I'm thinking?" She stamped her feet on the floor. When it was 9 AM, she went to the CEO's office and the door was still closed. As she was about to turn away and go back to her office, she saw her boss coming towards his office and another man with same pedigree was coming with him, and both were putting on a black suit. "Good morning Sirs," she greeted and the acid of fear wetted her mouth, down to her stomach. "Where were you yesterday? What happened to the DSC files?" Her boss spoke with a spark of anger in her eyes. He was sitting on his chair while his friend was sitting on the right side of his office. Elisa could not reply at first and her eyes were down. "You cost us millions of dollars for your negligence." He hit his desk. "You care less about the image of this great company." "But Sir, I can explain." "Explain what? What are you going to do to bring back that money and our reputation?" He paused, then he looked into her eyes and added, "You are fired!"It was as if the rays of the sun shone through her eyes. "Please Sir." Tears were forced out of her eyes by that statement. "It wasn't my fault. My life has been down. I can explain please." "When you were receiving your employment letter, you said you could work under tense situations. There is no need to beg and there is nothing I can do." "Please Sir, please." Then her phone started to ring. She busied the call and continued, "It was something I never expected happened to me Sir." And before she could finish, her phone rang again. "You can pick up your calls. I don't care about you anymore."Elisa picked up his call and it was his younger brother who was calling. "Dan, what is it?" She tried to compose herself. "Mum needs some money for drugs and treatment." "Please, I will get back to you," she ended the call. She turned her sorrowful face towards his boss and said, "Please Sir, my mom has been sick. I have been sending all my salary for her treatment. My dad left us for another woman a long time ago. This work had been my everything. Please, consider me." She wept the most. "Miss Elisa, I have nothing to do in this matter. You would have considered this before abandoning your duty. You couldn't even call. Your manager thought you were attending to it at home. He too has been given lesser punishment. You have been fired. This should be a lesson for you."Elisa started crying uncontrollably, "Douglas had ruined my life." She thought and turned towards the door. As she was about to open the door, the CEO's friend called Elisa. "Young lady," His voice was full of concern. Elisa stopped and turned back and the man continued, "I heard you said your mom is sick and you need money?" "Yes Sir." She cleaned her tears, nodded her head and felt great relief and she thought, "my savior has shown up in my darkest moment.""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
"My master has been giving some kind of preference from the day I started working. You know when the opposite sex wants to always be there for you. He was so kind from our first encounter. I felt at ease whenever he was around me and I was not afraid of telling him anything. When I told him that I needed money for my mum's health, he paid my three months salary ahead. The way he does it, made…" She paused."Made...what?" Sophia was eager to know."Made his fiance jealous.""That wasn't your fault.""It's my fault. Let me land." Elisa replied."Then go on, are you hiding something from me?""No. Just this morning, I was arranging their breakfast on the dining table. What I felt was a splash of water on my chest." She touched her breasts and stood up to demonstrate how it actually happened."What are you looking at? His fiance asked my boss. I was so shocked. I was the one she poured water on. I never expected it. You know, when you bend your body, someone could see your breasts. Next t