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Eve's POV

"I.... I am Mr Maya's wife" I finally confessed to Helen.

"She is Mr Maya's Wife" Robert said at the same time.

"What?" Helen exclaimed.

"What do you mean you are Mr Maya's wife?" She asked me.

"Using the word 'wife' sounds more better than saying his 's*x toy" I said.

"I married him because his wealth would improve a whole lot of things in my miserable life but it turns out we are actually not getting married in the proper way" I briefly explained to her.

"You see Eve, even a proper marriage with him is still very wrong" Robert said.

"I know right" I said and sniffed.

I'm really not gonna shed tears again, I'm tired of that.

"What are you talking about Eve? Explain to me right away, Robert!" Helen questioned in a confused way.

I wish I could just tell her that what I just said now is a Joke but no, it's not.

"Mr Maya asked for her hand in marriage and she reluctantly agreed because he was wealthy and he promise to take good care of her. She needed money for her Dad's treatment and also to further her education. On getting here, she finds out that she is not getting wedded to him like he initially proposed. The marriage and wife stuff was only a title.. the main reason Mr Maya brought her here is to satisfy his s*xual urges" Robert explained to Helen..

I glared at him while he rushed the words and immediately he was done.. I asked him..

"Robert how did you know? Did Mr Maya inform you about his wicked play before he brought me here"

"No, no. Well I overheard your conversation with Liam this morning, I'm sorry" Robert said and I sighed.. and looked at Helen.

"That's it. I know it's hard to believe... But I'm not gonna cry over it again, neither would I start regretting my actions. I have made up my mind" I said and went to sit on an arm chair..

"And I'm sorry I lied to you that Liam and I are cousin... I couldn't bring myself to tell you the truth, the moment you asked who I was and why I was here" I added but she didn't say anything.. Instead she stared at me as if my words irritated her.

I was pretending to be an hard girl and as if I really do not care anymore but before I knew it, tears began to roll down my cheeks again.

"No, no" I muttered, wiping them off and sniffing at the same time but the tears came back again.

"I know you don't believe me Helen" I looked at her face when she didn't say anything.

"I believe you" She responded, came closer and sat on the couch right in front of me.

"You do? Are you not mad at me that I was not sincere with you from the onset?" I asked her.

"Uhn..uh" She shook her head.

"I believe you Eve, infact the first time I saw you.. okay, that was just yesterday.. what you just said you are to Mr Maya was exactly what came into my head" She said and I was puzzled.

"You knew right away that I was his wife?" I asked her.

"No. Not that. When I saw you yesterday; I suspected right away that you were either Liam's girlfriend or Mr Maya s3x slave" Helen said and my eyes widened and I looked at her face.

"How do you know that Mr Maya would have a s3x slave or young girl like me as his..."

She interrupted me by mentioning my name... "Eve"

I didn't know why she looked up at Robert after doing so.

"Eve, assuming I had met you earlier.. and you told me you were gonna start living with an old man named Mr Maya then it turns out to be this same Mr Maya, I would tell you a big No.. let alone, marry him... Ew" Helen said.

"Wh..why? Why did you say that Helen?" I asked and Robert sighed.

"Because Mr Maya is a s*x maniac Eve!" She responded.

"And.. how did you know that? I...I thought he just wanted to find his way through me, I'm already aware that he flirts with and pays off prostitutes and whores out there. But how did you know Mr Maya is a s*x maniac.. How come you guessed right that being his s3x slave is possibly the reason he brought me to his place?" I rushed my words because I was anxious to know more about the old man I was dealing with.

Is there something they are hiding from me or is this a planned work? Yeah, a set up?

"Because it is obvious Eve. I've worked with Mr Maya for almost my whole life" She exaggerated.

"It's.. it is just five years Helen" Robert corrected.

"It's the same thing..." She shrugged.

"You know what Helen, just go ahead and tell Eve about your experience" Robert said.

"What experience? " I wondered, looking like a novice but they became mute instead..

Helen got off the chair and was about to leave but I grabbed her hand instantly.

"What experience?" I asked her again.

"She is Mr Maya's victim" Robert said.

"What Victim?" Helen scorned at him.

"Is that true Helen, how did it happen? Did...did he ask you to marry him, like he did to me and it turns out that he wants you to be his cook?" I asked her.

"How dumb, does that even make any sense to you?" She said in a harsh tone.

"No, I choose to work with him and the income helped me complete my high school" She told me.

"Oh... Then how are you his victim?" I asked again and she let out a heavy sigh..

"Did he rape you?" I asked another question, glaring into her contenant, it's obvious Mr Maya must have done something really bad or sexual with her.

"No" She blurted.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that" I quickily apologized.

"Because I... I didn't let him have his way" She added, returning to where she sat initially.

"What?"

"Are you surprised Eve? She just told you that Mr Maya is literally a pedophile" Robert said..

"No I'm surprised because she still works with him also; loyal to him regardlessly"

"It's because I've not gotten all I want from him yet"

"What's that?"

"His money. This Job... I mean the salary I get from Mr Maya is my only source of income" She told me.

Exactly this is it for me too, Mr Maya's money is a good reason why I can't give up or leave already. I have not gotten all I want from him yet.

"Even if I quit, I can't get a Job that gives me as much as I earn here because..." She paused.

" I'm alone Eve, I'm an orphan" Her eyes became teary already.

"So..sorry. I'm so sorry about that Helen"

"I lived with my aunt ever since my both parents left me. And her husband turns out to be a pedophile, too! He's always after my body.. even after reporting to my aunt with a genuine proofs, she supports whatever her husband wants to do to me, so I had to abscord...Lived on the street, came across Mr Maya who introduced me to being a cook and he claimed that he was a good elderly man not...not untill recently, he wanted to rape me.." After rushing her words for long, she paused again..: "I kinda saw that plight coming.. Mr Maya was always gazing at me seductively, my thigh, boobs.. but whenever he does this, he invites one of his whores over here immediately and satisfies his urges. I thought I was safe. God! Why am the victim of molestation there and here!" She cried out.

"He was probably over-horny and couldn't get to call a s*x maniac like him, so he wanted you to take over or he just wanted your own body" Robert said.

"He wanted my body!" She exclamed.

"I'm sorry" He apologized immediately.

"Did you even know Eve? I lived in this mansion from day one until the incident happened" She told me.

"Oh, that's why you left" I muttered.

"Yeah, instead of quitting.. I told him I can't stay here with him anymore, he transferred me to the quarters. Eve, one reason I'm not afraid of Mr Maya is because I have the proof that he almost raped me"

"You always have proofs Helen. She's so smart!" Robert remarked.

"Is there CCTV camera in here?" I asked them.

"As huge as this place is, there's no CCTV camera, he didn't even hide one somewhere just in case of robbery or whatever. Foolish him... It's simply because of his wayward attitude and obsession for s3x. Imagine being caught on his own camera having s3x every now and then" I noticed that she feels distressed whenever she mentions the word 's3x'

"How then, did you get the proof while he was trying to take advantage of you?" I asked her.

"Oh That... I was making a record of my voice singing. I haven't paused or halted it when he pulled me from behind... so the noise of struggles, my screams and even his voice pleading with me for him to have his way was all recorded" She said.

"That's... that is a very good proof" I stuttered.

"Did he know about it?" I was so inquisitive, I don't know why. She didn't complain neither, she was ready to answer every of my question.

"Of course he did, I also recorded the part, he called me all sort of names because, I kicked him in his face while trying to withdraw from him, the part he apologized and said he was sorry about it..and didn't know what came over him. Yeah he knows I have the voice record... which I played it out to him and made several requests out of it. If it necessary, I would blackmail him with this voice record" She said raising her phone up.

"Although he thought I deleted it already, that's because I lied to him that I did yet he gives me this kind of scared respect. His sons doesn't even know about what transpired between their father and I" She added..

"Hold on, has Liam gone back to school or he just went to hang out with his friends?"

"He has gone back to school" Robert replied.

"Yeah he only came home to pick up some stuffs" I told her, remembering our encounter again this morning.

"Liam hates me" I blurted.

"Urh, you don't have to worry about that at all. Liam is an arrogant jerk" Helen said.

"Yes, I figured out that he is a jerk but he hates me more because I've come to live in this mansion especially when I told him this morning that I'm married to his Dad; Liam walked out of me and I didn't hear anything from him ever since then, he didn't even inform me when he was already returning to his college. Robert told me just after he left" I told Helen.

"Maybe he doesn't want a step mom" Robert said.

"He can't accept you as his step mom that's what it means" added Helen.

"No, I'm not his step mom, I don't want to be his step mom. No" They looked at me in a pitiful way and I heaved and said: "Perhaps I am literally his step mom" 

"Okay, let's leave that aside because Liam has no good attitude. He really needs to stay away from home for a long time.."

"And he needs to learn some good manners too. Can't he just be like Mark?"

"Exactly Robert. Mark is the exact opposite of his brother, Liam. Mark is so sweet, also he is an easy going guy... Yet I don't seem to understand why girls do fall in love with the bad guy.." Helen stated.

"Huh??" Robert and I exclamed at the same time.

"Ye..ah, like it is always written in most romance novels and movies... The bad guys always have their charming ways to make poor girls fall in love with them despite their annoying and arrogant attitude.... Arrgh!"

Robert and I exchanged glances, wondering why Helen was literally exaggerating regarding Liam's attitude.

"Like I said earlier, let's not talk about Liam.. for he would always and forever be a jerk" She said and I nodded.

"Have you had s3x with Mr Maya?" She asked me and suddenly coughed out because I wasn't expecting that question from her... yet.

"I.. errm... No" I doubt if she heard that because her phone rang, interrupting me.

"It's Mr Maya" She whispered to us then picked up the call and said;" Hello" into it.

"Oh.. Okay sir. I will do just that" She said and with that, she dropped her phone, stood up again like she got something to do.

"Mr Maya said he would leave his office very soon and he is heading straight home"

"He is coming home straight uh, that's unusual" Robert remarked..

"I need to get his meal ready and get out of here before he gets here. I have no course to stay long here when he is around" Helen said and left the living room...went into the kitchen.

"I'll join you in a jiffy" I hollered.

"Guys, please be real quick with the cooking. I can't hide it anymore.. I'm starving" Robert confessed, stressing the last word "starving".

I snickered but said sorry to him.

"Uhm, you know Eve, It's so nice to have this lengthy conversation with you and Helen. I would be at my place now" He said heading towards the door.

"Where do you stay Robert? I know you don't sleep inside this mansion" That's because I observed.

"Yeah, there is smaller building attached to this one behind. That's where I stay" He said and I remembered that I came across such building.

"Oh that building. You stay there all alone?" I asked him.

"Of course yes; me, myself and I" He said and I chuckled..

I watched him leave the house.

Just then, it drawn to me that I now have two friends already; Helen and Robert were all I wanted in this predicament I've already found myself into.

I remembered how I shedded tears some minutes ago but I didn't know when I stopped crying or how my wet cheeks dried up. Their presence did the magic.

Helen seemed to be free around me, she even opened up her darkest predicament to me, I should do the same too ... Else, she would be mad at me, and who knows, might be forever.

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