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It took everything in Ellaine to act as if she's unaffected, and not absolutely horrified by what she heard. She clenched her fists upang mabawasan ang bahagyang panginginig niya, gayundin ang panlalata ng kanyang kalamnan.

"One of the meaner, younger maids locked me up in a closet once. And in the room where that closet was, I heard her and my father and two others…"

Hindi na in-elaborate pa kung ano ang narinig niya.

"I also saw my mother with one of her lovers in pretty much the same way, while I was hiding behind thick curtains in a room I wasn't allowed access to."

She… didn't want to hear the rest. But she forced herself, for some reason, to stay.

"You know what's really funny, though? They were both in ag