Chapter 2

The sound of relaxing music was echoing in the whole living room. The living was big enough to contain at least eleven families and there would still be space remaining.

A woman was sitting on a couch with a glass of wine cup in between her fingers.She wore a fitted romper with a pair of high heels,She seemed to be worried about something with the way she caressed her membrane.

“Excuse me ma’am!”Her butler called for her as soon as he came in. The woman didn’t respond to him, “excuse me ma’am” he called out again. She slowly looks up at him, giving him a deadly look.

“What exactly do you want?” She asks with a cold tone.

“I am so sorry to disturb you ma'am,”He apologised, a bit frightened by her stares.”Miss Juliet is here to see you”,He added.

“Juliet”She repeated the name.

“Yes ma'am,”He replied.

“She can come in”She gave her approval for him to bring her inside.

“Miss Juliet is here, ma’am,”The butler announced.

The woman looked at her with a confused look, trying to remember where she knew her from.

“I don’t seem to know who you are,”She stated with confusion.

“I am the girl who helped you out when your car broke down. You promised to offer me a job to work for you”,Juliet reminds her of their encounter.

“Ohhh.. I am so sorry that I forgot you so soon”She sighs with an apologetic tone.

“It is fine, but I am glad you remember now”Juliet utters with a faint smile.

“Please have your seat”. She offered Juliet a seat beside her. “You can leave now”, She tells the butler.

“You have a very beautiful house, ma'am,” Juliet compliments as her eyes wandered everywhere.

“Thank you, I must say that I am happy to see you here and thanks for accepting my job offer,” she says with a smile “I have been worried for a while about getting a new house keeper, the ones that came for the job aren’t good enough and while some couldn’t stand the fact that I wanted them to be at least married before coming for the job”She added feeling exhausted.

Juliet's eyes widened after what the woman had just said but she immediately recovered.

“What do you mean by married?” She asks with confusion.

“What has happened between my son and so many of the girls that came here, I have decided that I want only married women to work for me”She announced.

“I have something to tell you. I know I should have said it from the beginning but I didn’t know I was going to consider this job”Juilet begins earning a strange look from the woman.

“You don’t want the job?”The woman interrupted her.

“No… it is not like that, I want the job but it is not for me”Juilet confessed.

“I don’t understand what you are trying to say,”The woman frowns a bit.

“I have a job already and I am grateful for the job that I have” she took a pause “I am only here because my friend really needs this job”She tells the woman with a faint smile.

“I don’t think I can help you with that,”The woman stated with a cold tone.

“Please, ma’am!” She went on her knees this is the only hope my friend has right now to escape from her evil aunty”Juliet pleaded.

“That has got nothing to do with me, you should stand up right now!”The woman commands.

“You made a promise that you were going to help me no matter what happens”Juilet was on the verge of crying.

“Fine, is she married?”The woman sighs.

“Yes, she is married,”Juliet stated without hesitating.

“I am glad to hear that she is married, but that doesn’t change the fact that she isn’t you… I just only wanted you to work for me”The woman utters,not feeling impressed.

“We both are best friends, so you can say she is just like me,”Juliet assures her.

“What does her husband do for a living? Would he be happy to know that his wife wouldn’t be around all the time?”The woman questions her a bit worried.

“Her husband doesn’t have a problem with it. Her husband is in the army, so he isn’t around all the time to take care of her and that’s why she really needs this job”Juliet lied avoiding eye contact with the woman.

“She can come in, I would love to interview her”The woman gave her approval.

‘Where is she?’ Annabel groans pacing around, impatiently waiting for Juliet to get back.

‘That’s it…’She couldn’t finish her statement because she mistakenly bumped into someone. “I am so sorry”She apologised immediately, gazing down.

“It’s fine, I should have been more careful,”A masculine voice declared.

His voice was so strong and very pleasant to hear that Annabel's heart skipped a beat as soon as she heard the voice. She was fighting the urge to look up and see the person with the voice of an angel.

“They never look at where they are going, what a peasant”Another masculine voice spoke. The voice sounded so irritated and disgusted. Annabel was forced to look at the person who owned that voice.

As soon as she took her gaze up, she was star struck with two handsome young men that were standing in front of her, she couldn’t convince herself to gather her words together, she couldn’t speak. She had never seen anyone as beautiful as those two young men standing in front of her.

“Are you okay?” The first masculine voice asks with concern. Annabel still couldn’t speak.

“Maybe she is mute,''The second masculine voice utters with irritation. “I am out of here” he says as he walks away.

“Are you okay?” He asked again.She nodded slowly

“Don’t mind my brother, he can be a bit too much at times”He tells her with a smile.

Annabel couldn’t stop her lips from departing from each other, her mouth was wide open, it felt like she was drooling. “Are you drooling?”

She immediately closed her mouth and cleaned the spit that was about to fall down her mouth.

“I…. Wasn’t…drooling”She stammered.

“I am glad to know that you can talk”He smirks before walking away.

Immediately he left, Juliet rushed in to meet Annabel, who was in her own imagination already.

“Annabel! Annabel!” Juliet yells.

“Yes, what… is the problem? “She stutters.

“There is a problem,”Juliet tells her with a worried look on her face.

“What do you mean by problem?”Annabel eagerly asked with her head raised.

“Don’t get mad, okay, I know how much you desperately need this job. So I might have told her that you are married”She immediately tells her, closing her eyes.

“You said what!”Annabel snaps with confusion.

“Why would you do that?”Annabel added.

“She wasn’t willing to give you the job unless you were married and I had no choice but to tell her that you were married”Juilet explains with an apologetic tone.

“So what is going to happen now when she finds out that I am not married?”Annabel shivers at the thought.

“She doesn’t need to find out about it, you just have to be careful at all times”Juliet told her.

“You still haven’t told me how you guys met,?”Annabel asks with a suspicious look.

“That will be a story for another day, as for now she wants to see you”Juliet entered the house with Annabel following her from behind.