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Chapter 31

Author: OYINDUN
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Xenra

Finally, after a busy day, my first day as a maid to Akira came to an end. I followed the rest of the maids to the room allocated to us. While the rest of them remained outside, I went straight to the room assigned to me.

I screwed my eyes and puffed out a long breath as I realised it was finally rest time.

As I opened my eyes, the sight of the room allocated to me left my mouth open.

"What is this?" I asked no one exactly as my eyes travelled around the worst room I had ever seen in my life—or maybe one I had never imagined existed.

The tiny room held two tiny beds that consumed half of the space. The walls stood bare with cracks and holes in them, a testament to the decades of its existence.

I lifted my eyes to the ceiling to find larger cracks and holes, and my jaw dropped further. Right then, it dawned on me that places like that did exist.

The only white curtain in the room that hung down the window had worn out as well, and I began to wonder how a place like that still exi
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