I. Delilah's Pov

Raphael and I met at the unexpected event, it was our village's festival and many were preparing to celebrate one of the most special occasions. I am currently serving as a maid in the Montenegro's family. But often that rich family doesn't stay here because they are too busy running their businesses in different places. The Montenegro's couple rarely comes here, sometimes only Don Markus visits the mansion and sometimes his wife, Madam Gloria. That couple is kind and generous, that's why no wonder why they were blessed with many beautiful things in life. But in my more than ten years of serving them as a maid, I have never seen and met the two male heirs of their properties. I hear a lot that they are currently living in another country and that they have completed their studies there as well. As far as I know from the old servants who are with me here at the hacienda, the eldest son of Don Markus and Madam Gloria, Sir Raphael, is the same age as me. But none of them have seen the appearance of the young man, except for his parents' personal assistant as well as the grumpy head maid, Mrs. Karen.

In the yard where I first saw him. I had something to plant vegetable seeds with, but I was stunned when I saw a handsome young man. His good looks are addictive, apart from that, his body shape is like a perfect structure, his blonde hair, his pointed nose and everything about him is like a fiction character that only can be read in the fantasy books. When he suddenly took off his black polo shirt in front of me, I dropped the things I was carrying in my hand and screamed out loud in shock. I was still innocent at that time and I had never seen a man's naked body, I was conservative and because I grew up in the province, I was still innocent of that kind of thing. The loudness of my scream seemed to shock him too, so his attention immediately went to me, and then he covered his chest with his two arms.

“A thief! Help me!” I shouted as my eyes were closed. I kept yelling there, but because there was an event that day, it seemed that everyone was too busy and no one could hear me. Until suddenly, he came to me, and then he covered my mouth with his left hand. At that moment, my heart beat faster. That was the first time that a man had come up to me to cover my mouth, besides that, he smelled so nice, as if he were come from a rich clan or family and that he was not from this place.

“Ssh, shut up. Someone might hear us both. Another thing, I'm not a thief. Look at my face. Do I look like a thief to you? Besides that, I'm not taking anything from here.” He said in a low voice, and I slowly opened my eyes. There I got a close look at his face. His eyes are bluish in color and his lips are heart shaped. I could hardly stop being mesmerized by his handsomeness and I just swallowed with so much nervousness, especially when our eyes met each other. He slowly removed his hand covering my mouth and then picked up his polo shirt from the ground and put it back on. I immediately avoided looking at him because he might think that I lust after him or he might think that I'm an easy to get girl.

“What is your name?” he asked me, and I raised an eyebrow as I looked in another direction.

“Why do you want to know my name? We don't even know each other and how did you get in here?” after I said that, I heard his grin, especially when he saw the shovel on the ground. He picked it up and then showed it to me.

“Do you know how to use it?” in his insulting voice. I raised an eyebrow at him, and then I took the shovel from his hand, which made him smile even more. But instead of getting angry at his insult, I seem to like seeing the line of smile on his lips even more. He is so charming!

“You'd better get out of here before anyone other than me comes across you or the owner of this house might see you.” I just told him, and then I dug in the ground to plant the vegetable seeds.

“How old are you?” he suddenly asked. This man seems to have a strong heart and is not afraid of anything, even if my co-workers might see him. But I am even more worried about him because by the time the guards see him, he will surely end up in jail. Yes, the Montenegro's couple are nice, but they are strict about security and what they hate most of all is strangers who don't work for them or don't belong there in that mansion. But according to this man's clothing, he does not look like an ordinary traveler or lost in this place. He may have meant something in this place, or he knows someone who lives here. Furthermore, I just ignored him and I didn't answer the questions he was asking me, but I just continued what I was doing while he was watching me with a smile as if he were watching a television show.

“What's your secret, and why are you so beautiful? Or maybe you made your beautiful appearance that way, and you're just pretending to be a provincial girl?” when I heard what he said, I was stunned again, and I turned in his direction with a frown.

“Do you want to say that my face is fake? I don't have that much money to change my face, and why are you still here? I haven't sent you away earlier? Aren't you afraid that they might take you to the police?” I said, and he just laughed. I raised an eyebrow with a look of astonishment on my face. Why is he laughing? Is there something funny in what I said, or maybe he's just insulting my appearance? I whispered from my mind. Suddenly, he came towards me, and then he sat next to me where he suddenly closed my cheeks in his cold hands. Therefore, I once again stared into his beautiful eyes and his face was so close to mine that I could almost feel the heat of his breathing. I was watching him when he suddenly looked up at me. The smile on his lips slowly disappeared, and he looked down at my lips as if he wanted to do something from his mind.

“Your lips are beautiful.” He said at the same time he stared at me. I don't know him very well, and I just saw him now, but why do I feel so comfortable with him as if we have known each other for a long time? He's not familiar to me, but it seems like I've seen that face of his for a long time, and I can't get tired of looking at it. “Can I kiss you?” he said, which suddenly awakened my spirit. My eyes widened at what he said, and I was about to speak when he quickly stole a kiss from my lips. I was almost taken aback by the quick incident and what's even more embarrassing is that I didn't even push him away from me right away, or I didn't even avoid it right away. He definitely thinks that I am into him, or I'm that easy to get. Suddenly, he smiled and laughed as if he was insulting me. I covered my mouth with my hand while he kept laughing.

“Don't say it's your first time kissing on the lips?” he said in a voice as if he underestimated my personality. I looked at him evilly and then pushed him away from me, then I stood up while wiping my lips on my sleeve.

“So, I was your first kiss?” He said as he wiped his lower lip with his tongue. I'll admit that he was my first kiss, but I wasn't ready for that situation, and then I didn't expect him to do it that easily as we didn't know each other very well, besides that, we don't have a mediated relationship, and we don't love each other more. But because I would rather not look embarrassing in front of him, I just lied and said, “I already have a boyfriend. So what you did to me is nothing to me. I have to go back inside because I still have a lot to do. You better go now.” After I told him that, I turned my back on him and walked away from him, but before I left there, he said one last word to his lips, “What if he's your boyfriend? You two aren't married yet, right?” he said, but I didn't turn at him anymore, and I didn't respond to him because I didn't want him to think that I was such a low type of woman who quickly fell in love with a man like him. Besides that, I don't want him to think that I'm only after money or his looks because I'm not that kind of woman. Maybe I'm a provincial girl and grew up in a poor family, I didn't even finish my education and I don't have anything to be proud of myself, but my character is not that low. I am not easily deceived by wealth, whether money or jewels. I just want a simple life, to have a happy family and we love each other. It doesn't matter that we are not rich, it doesn't matter if our home is not big, as long as the important thing is that we are content with a simple life together. So someone like him is unlikely to like me, he is unlikely to enter my life because I have never aspired or dreamed of having a luxurious lifestyle or being rich. From when I was young until I became a woman, I always had that mindset, to be able to marry a man of my same status in life to stay away from trouble. We would think of nothing else but to be together for life. But since I met that man, my world suddenly turned upside down. I thought I would be able to forget him immediately and be able to avoid him, but it was not that easy, especially since my heart had already fallen for him.