"Argh." Amanda whimpered as she squeezed her stomach, she had opened her eyelids an hour ago but had no intention of getting out of bed when excessive pain attacked her stomach since her monthly period appeared last night, making the woman feel very tortured because it was difficult to do other activities.Amanda just continued to lie curled up in bed until the sun rose higher, then a servant found her while trying to remind their mistress to eat breakfast since it was ready."Oh my, Miss Amanda. What's the matter with you, huh? Your face is so pale." The servant frantically observed Amanda's condition. "Are you sick? I'll ask the guard to contact Zayn to take you to the hospital.""No. ...." Amanda's voice sounded very soft, she was too weak, and her face was so faint with lips that began to dry out from not being able to move even to touch a glass of mineral water."How is it, Miss? What do you want? Or should I ask the guard to call the doctor?"Amanda still shook her head, making
"Where's Oriaga? He didn't come with you, huh?" Amanda quickly chimed in as Zayn entered her room with a servant.The man blinked, his hand holding a bag of heat patches for Amanda."Sorry, Miss. But, Mr. Oriaga—""I don't care about the reason he said. I don't want to hear it." Amanda was easily inflamed due to the influence of hormones when her period came, especially tormented like this. "He can't spare even ten minutes of his time, huh?"Zayn swallowed, not knowing how to respond. Even defending Oriaga wouldn't change the situation Amanda desperately wanted her husband's presence, if Zayn defended Oriaga, he would also earn the woman's wrath.So, Zayn chose to remain silent as he listened to Amanda's ramblings when he could watch her swear all day long."That bastard is heartless. He forgot when he was sick to just keep working on me, but now he's acting like the busiest man in the world."Before Zayn came, Amanda was still in a good mood, she didn't scold anyone because the serva
"Good afternoon, Miss. How are you now?" A servant asked as they entered Amanda's room, for a whole day they took turns visiting the woman, the feeling of anxiety that had been seen on everyone's face slowly disappeared, especially since Amanda refused to be taken to the hospital or have a doctor visit here. All the servants were afraid that something bad would happen to their mistress.Amanda smiled, she was still lying on the bed after waking up half an hour ago. "I feel better, for a few days please stock up on those heat patches, I'm going to need them a lot.""Yes, Miss. I'll ask Zayn to buy more when he gets back.""Do you know when Oriaga left?"The maid was lost in thought, recalling the time of Oriaga's departure. "I think it was around lunchtime, Miss. When you were already asleep.""Ah well.""Do you need anything else?""Yes. Please just change these sheets now, I can sit there while you change them.""I'll get the new sheets in the room at the end of the second floor, Mis
On the third day of period, Amanda felt better, she was able to walk out of the room because she was bored for two days just spending time in that room, she did not know what was happening outside her room.Amanda came out of the glass elevator on the main floor, she looked around, and the smell of cooking from the direction of the kitchen was effective enough to attract the woman's attention.For two days, she had only eaten what she wanted, but today that might change as the smell of soup made her empty stomach churn."What are you cooking, Aunt Rosemary?" asked Amanda as she entered the kitchen.The woman in a brown apron who was busy stirring the soup immediately turned her head, she smiled broadly in response to Amanda's appearance in the kitchen."Miss. Are you here?" She immediately approached the woman, helping her walk to sit behind the dining table. "How is your body, Miss? Don't force it if it's still weak.""I'm so bored just spending time in my room. Besides, it doesn't t
Today Oriaga gathered all the leaders of each division as well as the designers in the meeting room, he wanted to openly discuss the problems that happened in Gregorious about Vladimir Chriskov's theft of Kathryn's designs as well as the plagiarism of designs by brand 'Seize'—which had previously remained private because Oriaga and some parties were busy with the investigation.Now that every piece of evidence was clear enough, he announced it to everyone, took the best course of action, and warned against similar bad situations in the future. Oriaga conducted surprise inspections in each division, he didn't want any more cheating to happen, and he was furious that the employees in his office had betrayed him—though Oriaga didn't know the reason behind the theft yet.He doesn't know Vladimir Chriskov's character although he accepts him as an employee after passing the selection, meaning that Vladimir's CV contains something worthy of being accepted to work at Gregorious—beating out ma
"Muffins?" Aunt Rosemary blinked, surprised when Amanda appeared in the kitchen and said she wanted to make muffins."Yes. You have all the ingredients in the kitchen, right? I want blueberry muffins." Moving past Aunt Rosemary who was standing next to the dining table, Amanda opened the entire refrigerator door to check the ingredients. "No blueberries?" She turned to look at Aunt Rosemary."We don't have any, Miss. If you had said earlier, or last night—someone would have come out to buy them, so sorry there are no blueberries."Amanda smiled flatly, she made Aunt Rosemary feel guilty. "It's okay, it's no big deal, there are other meals that can be made. It's my fault for not mentioning it earlier, sorry for being so abrupt, Auntie.""How about lemon cake? Or red velvet?"Amanda looked back at the contents of the refrigerator, there were indeed a lot of strawberries and a few lemons, although there were other fruits, but they were not suitable for cake batter."Eum, maybe lemon cake
Amanda moved restlessly even though her eyelids were tightly closed, and it was already one o'clock in the morning, but whatever it was continued to make her feel uncomfortable. She occasionally rubbed her ears and the nape of her neck as she felt different air touching her there.The air conditioner was always on except when Amanda needed some natural air through the large window in her room, she couldn't bear the restlessness, so she opened her eyes slowly, making the woman freeze when she found someone had flanked Amanda's legs while removing the t-shirt from his body, then throwing it on the floor.The man bent his knees and leaned back to touch Amanda's face with a warm smile.She closed her eyes again and swallowed, knowing she was imagining, or perhaps dreaming, a moment too crazy to face in reality.However, Amanda was wrong, the disturbance was even more uncontrollable because it touched the face, making the woman speak. "This dream is too real, why would a dream like this co
After a heated argument with Oriaga last night, the woman was even more convinced of herself and her desire to get out of this mansion. She felt very grateful that there was not a single CCTV installed in the mansion, so no guards were watching her movements from afar.Amanda felt she had to apologize to Aunt Rosemary that her intentions that day were limited to taking advantage, leading Amanda to find the key to the metal door near the gazebo.Although she had to walk quite a distance to the storeroom located in the corner of the southern hallway, her fatigue was rewarded when Amanda managed to re-enter the room, paying close attention to many of the details she had passed through yesterday."I got the key to freedom." There was no hesitation as the woman's hand opened the glass door containing the many keys, she quickly pulled out the key she had been eyeing since yesterday and tucked it into her pajama pocket. "I hope no one saw me enter this room, they shouldn't have, I woke up ea