Author's point of view... Izzy's heart pounded as Lissa's roar filled the room. She felt Isaac's grip tighten on her hand, a silent plea for calm amidst the storm. It must be Claudia who might have called Lissa here, Izzy thought. Lissa was about to grab Izzy's hair and drag her out of the room when two strong men positioned themselves protectively before Izzy, their imposing figures casting long shadows in that dimly lit room. Lissa stopped puzzled. So what Claudia said was right! This bitch had mingled with some dangerous men. Lissa cursed Izzy in her heart. "What the hell do you think you are doing, you nasty piece of shit?" Lissa could no longer hold her anger inside, "Can you be more shameless Izzy? Your father is fighting with death every day in the hospital bed and you are clinging with men out there..." Lissa's eyes blazed with fury but she stepped back immediately. Her hands clenched into fists. "Get out! Just the thought of you being his daughter disgusts me..
Author's point of view... Inside the hotel room, Robert was on his chair, calm and composed as ever, talking to Mike on his phone. "Did you get anything, Mike?" "Yes Boss, their family got involved with some local gangs. Her brother's sudden death is indeed something suspicious" Robert's eyebrows cocked up. "Um hmm...What suspicious?" Robert asked curiously. "It was a kidnap and murder case but shockingly, no one complained about it" Robert gave it a thought, "Wasn't their family a normal middle-class family?" Robert threw another question and Mike took a minute to understand. Why would they have any enemy to go so far? Why would someone kidnap their family member and for what? Mike replied immediately, he had been digging up everything about Izzy's family and surprisingly the more he dug, the more he discovered. "Their family was well-known in the entire town and lived a normal life as what I heard about them. But it doesn't look good deeper." "Why didn't they
Author's point of view... After driving through the forest in the outskirts of the city, they reached a huge gate opening into a vast garden. This place was like a hidden paradise in the heart of the woods. Sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits, filled the air with freshness. As if already instructed, the driver rolled down the window glasses to let that fresh and fragrant air inside the car. Robert was leaning his head on the seat while his eyes were closed. The usual creased brows were now relaxed. After kissing Izzy just now, he actually felt good. He didn't know if that came from tricking her or the unique taste he felt on her lips. Izzy looked at the paradise outside the window then at the predator next to her. They doesn't match. Not at all...! She pondered. After about ten minutes of driving through the greenery, they eventually pulled up in front of a massive mansion in the midst of the garden. Given how it seemed, this mansion might almost be referred to as a cast
Author's point of view... A maid...! Harvey raised his head and his smiling face contorted into a confused one. He read the cold expression on his boss's face and grasped something. No matter his woman or maid, that girl had offended his boss somehow. "Oh..." Harvey nodded. Izzy was not surprised by that response. When she had signed that blank contract, she truly had signed her life away, she knew her role could not simply be his caretaker, but she could at least protect herself from being his bedmate and personal servant and anything else he wanted her to be by being a maid instead. Robert glared at Izzy without a blink. He wanted to see her begging him or at least there had to be some panic in her behaviour but there was none. Izzy silently agreed with him as if she was relieved to be a maid. That irritated the young man. He gritted in anger but refrained himself from showing it. Izzy blinked at him in a daze. He looked angry, but didn't have any idea, why. Did she s
Author's point of view... Izzy trembled as the two men advanced. She didn't know what to do. It was just her first day in that mansion and she was being harassed by these bastards. She felt she would faint at any second. "Don't...don't touch me..." she stammered stepping back until her back hit the wall. She hugged herself and closed her eyes. Greg grinned menaceingly while Tony's hand was just inches from Izzy when gunshots rang out, shattering the tense silence. Izzy jerked and opened her eyes to see what happened only to find the two men crumpled to the floor, clutching their legs, blood pooling beneath them. Izzy covered her mouth and stood frozen, her mind struggling to process what had just happened. Behind her, Robert stood with a smoking gun, his expression unreadable. He casually blew away the smoke from the barrel, a look of satisfaction crossing his face. Izzy's knees went weak, and she felt as if her body was turning to jelly. "What the hell were you doing
Author's point of view... Izzy had just witnessed something that she had never seen before. In her world violence and killing are only talk of the people in the illusion world of movies. But Izzy had never seen such things entertainingly even if that was supposed to be just for an act. Now that it happened right in front of her eyes, she couldn't help but feel frightened. Frightened as a hare on the road before the flashing headlights. She couldn't think much, she couldn't talk much. The sound of the gunshots keeps ringing in her ears. Robert did that to save her, to let the others know that this girl was his and no one was allowed to mess around with her. Or maybe he wanted to frighten her, show her what he was capable of. And after that, Izzy strangely felt the saviour to be her real predator. She was in a trance when he coldly asked her to follow him. It was only after getting into his bedroom that she finally realized what exactly was happening to her. She jerked out
Author's point of view... "You are just...too slow to complete it on time?" he snapped and Izzy frowned, she felt as though her ears heard something odd. Slow...! She moped almost ten rooms and two big halls including the stairs. It was equivalent to her school campus back then and here he is calling her, "Slow...!!" Izzy felt like crying, but couldn't shed any tears. Robert sat leaning back on the bed, resting his hands on either side, a slight cunning smile tugging on his lips. Izzy shrank into the corner. He smirked, he was coming right away to what he wanted to say, slowly, cunningly. "Wasn't that hard for you to work restlessly?" he asked breaking the silence. Of course, it was hard..! She was feeling tired as hell, every part of her body ached but she couldn't possibly complain about her work on the very first day, right? Unaware of what he actually meant, Izzy shook her head, "No it wasn't that hard" she said gulping down the words in her mind. Robert narrowed h
Author's point of view... Izzy had always known her life was unpredictable, but nothing could have prepared her for what happened after this fateful night. She thought it was going to be a simple maid's job and she could just disappear into a corner of the huge Erickson mansion but fate had everything decided for her. A conversation with that man, Robert Erickson, the previous night had left her in an unimaginable abyss. He was a dangerous man and he insisted that Izzy would be his personal maid. Being near him 24/7. His words still rang in her mind the whole night. "I want you to be my personal maid. This isn't a request, it's an order. You'll follow me everywhere, 24/7 including my company." Izzy's heart pounded in her chest. The words—no, the command—were daunting. But Robert's intimidating demeanour left no room for refusal. She checked everything online about Erickson Corporation and found how huge the corporation was. At first, she thought Robert might be one of the nor