I woke up the next morning, and the first thing my eyes landed on was the rent increase notice that Adam had happily come to drop off the previous day. I got showered, ate breakfast and packed my clothes. My maid uniform smelt awful from all the sweat and different things that had poured on it, but all of my clothes were even worse because I had not taken any time to sort out my laundry. There were washing machines available in the basement for everyone in the apartment to use, but Adam was too much of a cheap man, and all of us had to cough up a few cents in order to use them, which was as good as driving your dirty laundry to some laundromat in town and getting it done there. Also, there had been cases of a few people complaining that their clothes disappeared from the washing machines only for Adam to sell them on the side. So, I had no choice but to pack my dirty clothes into my tote bag and head out of my house. “Harper Holmes…” Adam said the second he saw me going down the fl
I entered the mansion and walked around first to inspect it. The place did not cleaning at all. It was still very clean, and I wondered why Dominic always bothered me to come every time and why he even wanted me to stay with him so that I could get to cleaning earlier. After inspecting the house and walking around, I decided I would go to the guest bathroom and get changed from there. Unlike the tiny room, the bathroom had a lock, and I felt slightly safer knowing that I could get dressed in a room with a lock. I quickly slid on my maid uniform, which smelled really awful from a weird combination of body odor, sweat, and everything else. Then I slid on my heels and carried my bag and belongings out of the bathroom with me. “Were you changing from there?” As luck would have it, I would open the bathroom door and find Dominic standing there in his pyjama top and pants, still holding his newspaper and mug of whatever. He had a puzzled look on his face. “Uhm… yes, I was changing in t
Sadie walked up to me with a smile plastered on her face as if we had been friends all those many years she decided to harass me. “Oh my, look at you. You’re fat from the last time I saw you.” she hugged me tightly as she squeezed my arms, my waist and then down to my bums. “Nice to see you too, Sadie.” I squeezed her back but let go immediately. She stepped back to get a better look at me. She had a huge bag slung around her arm. Was she staying over? “What are you doing here?” she asked “Oh, she was just about to leave.” Dominic quickly replied I looked at him in disbelief and then just settled for nodding. I walked over to the tiny bedroom and closed the door. “I knew you would not be ready. Imagine, after intentionally delaying at the mall, you still managed to be late.” I could hear Sadie telling Dominic. “I am ready, trust me. I just need to take a quick shower, and then we can get started.” Dominic replied to her. After dressing up, I walked out of the small room and
“YOU DID WHAT?!” she yelled.“Shhh… keep your voice down.” I hushed her “Adam will come running up here thinking it’s time for a conversation.” “Sorry. You did what?” she asked in a lower voice. “I don’t know. He has been offering his place for a while.” I shrugged“That’s totally not weird.” she sarcastically replied “Your boss offered you his place after hearing that your landlord increased the rent within short notice.” “Oh no. This was before the landlord increased the rent.” I explained “Then your boss just wants to sleep with you and get to see you walking around his house naked.” she said.Her bringing up that Dominic would just want to see me naked gave me chills and goosebumps. I mean, the other time I was there, he almost ended up completely naked in front of me had I not put my foot down and then the next day he saw my chest and me in my skimpy panties. But I did not want to discuss it with her. She would have made it a bigger issue than it was. “No, he was more or les
“HOMER!” Dominic yelled angrily as his hands quickly covered his bottom part, and then he reversed back into the room. I was not sure if I should continue running forward and end up in the kitchen or run back to the tiny room or eventually sprint out of the mansion. I had already been traumatised by Sadie, and then seeing Dominic like that made me feel even worse. I froze in the same spot until I decided to run straight to the kitchen. I prayed and hoped he would not come to the kitchen to get a glass of water still nude. Still feeling shaken and panicked, I remained in the kitchen for some time, trying to catch my breath. I bit on my nails and the cuticles nervously. One of my cuticles peeled so far deep and back that I started to bleed. I knew I could not rinse the blood off in the kitchen sink, meaning the only other solution was to go out of the kitchen and head to any of the bathrooms to rinse it off. But I was terrified of finding Dominic roaming around nude. I did not mind s
“Now, instead of standing there and being so proud of yourself, clean this place up. You heard Sadie. This place is filthy. I pay you too much just to be lazing around.” he continued to speak loudly and then turned away. He walked to his office and slammed his door so loudly. I was left in the same spot he reprimanded me in. I was too stunned even to take a step. My eyes began to water up as I just processed everything that happened. Eventually, I slowly walked away. I went back to the kitchen to finish off cleaning what I had started on and then grabbed the other cleaning supplies and tiptoed around the house. Dominic stayed in his office practically the whole day. I only heard the door being opened once or twice when I was upstairs. It was as if he checked first to see if I was around before he could move about. I felt really bad. He had always been in some bad mood, but that day, he locked himself in the office. I wondered how I was to tell him that I wanted to move in suddenly,
I subtly followed them around the house as Dominic showed Aaron what apparently needed reparing and fixing. To me and Aaron, it was nothing big. It was just tiny cracks on the wall, paint slowly peeling off and a random tiny crack on one of the tiles of the floor. To Dominic, it was a disaster waiting to happen. He claimed that if there was suddenly a natural disaster, the whole house would fall apart. If there was a random thunderstorm, the whole building would collapse just because of those cracks. And then, he took him upstairs and showed him one of the bedrooms that had always been locked ever since I started working there. Was he decorating and renovating it for me? It was a simple bedroom. Just a big bed in the middle of the room and two bedside tables on either side, and a small closet. There were no paintings or curtains in that room, but it was still way better than the room he had made me change in. “All of this has to go,” Dominic said “All of what?” Aaron asked in sho
After cleaning the rest of the house, I slowly walked to the office. I reluctantly headed there, but there was no other way of informing Dominic that I was leaving. I knocked on the door and did not hear a reply, but I heard as if something was being played on his laptop or phone. I knocked again, only a little harder. Still, nothing. I slowly twisted the door handle, but the door was locked. I turned away automatically, assuming that he was not in the office. But where would he have gone? I never saw him leave the house. I never saw him go upstairs, and I never even heard his footsteps. I walked back to the office door. I gently knocked on it again and tried twisting the handle. Then, whatever sound came from his laptop or phone suddenly stopped, and I heard the sound of his feet walking on the floor. He unlocked the door and then looked at me. “Perfect timing…” he said sarcastically“I just came to inform you that I am going home. I am done for the day.” I answered He pushed m