Chapter 9. Drowning   

Lynda did not stop breathing because of the work Nelvan gave her, a job that could be done easily was made difficult by the man. 

Draining the pool? Seriously, it wasn't a two-foot aquarium pool. If it was an aquarium, maybe Lynda could do it, but what Nelvan was asking her to do was a swimming pool over four meters long. 

"Is she still sane? It looks like if I manage to empty this pool, I'm going to have man-sized biceps." Lynda looked down at her muscular arms as she lowered her shoulders, "You're going to get strong work, so you should be prepared to get strong muscles." Lynda told her own arms. 

Lynda didn't know where the pool was, hopefully it was only knee deep, she wouldn't be able to remove that much water with her hands. 

"You can't give up, do your best and make the man happy," Lynda said, encouraging herself. 

One by one, Lynda filled the bucket with water and then dumped it. She did this not once or twice, but many times, until her body felt tired, Lynda stopped to take a deep breath, and then began to lift the water out of the pool with the bucket. 

 Meanwhile, above Lynda was Nelvan, who watched Lynda's relentless hard work from the second floor. Even when she was ordered to drain the pool, she did it, while the previous maids retreated immediately when they saw the size of the pool Nelvan had in the house. 

"You will definitely give up, just look at your little arm muscles rebelling for you to stop, women are weak and I hate to see women." Nelvan muttered. 

"Boss has no heart," Lynda muttered, which Nelvan could hear. 

Hearing the girl's grumbling made Nelvan roll his eyes, "How dare she..." Nelvan stopped immediately and sighed, deciding not to yell at Lynda, the girl had no idea that Nelvan was watching from the second floor. 

"Doesn't he have a heart, I was told to drain this much water, if I manage to drain and then fill the new water, I will drown him in it." Lynda grumbled as she carried the water back and forth. 

Lynda sat on the edge of the pool, her clothes were already wet but she didn't care, "When is this pool water going to recede, it feels like I've been draining the water but it doesn't seem to be receding at all, how deep is this pool really?" Lynda reached for the water, but unfortunately she slipped and fell into the water. 

"Help!" cried Lynda, she couldn't swim and the pool was two meters deep and Lynda was only one hundred and sixty-three centimeters tall, her feet didn't touch the bottom of the pool. 

Lynda's breathing stopped, she had trouble breathing in the water. While Nelvan smiled sarcastically above her, "What are you doing, hurry up, can't you swim?" he said. 

Nelvan was still watching until he didn't see Lynda's movement in the water, spontaneously Nelvan immediately stood up and ran to the pool before jumping in to help Lynda out of the water. 

The girl was already unconscious when Nelvan managed to bring her to the edge, a pat on Lynda's cheek was given by Nelvan, but there was no response from Lynda. 

"Lynda, hey!" said Nelvan while pressing Lynda's chest to release the water swallowed by the girl, but Nelvan still did not see Lynda come to her senses, without thinking Nelvan gave artificial breath to Lynda's lips, the next second quite a lot of water was released by the girl. 

Lynda coughed but was shocked by the presence of Nelvan soaking in front of her, Nelvan pushed her wet hair back with his fingers, for a moment Lynda was fascinated by the man in front of her. 

Droplets of water soaked Nelvan's forehead, the man's thick eyeballs and eyebrows accentuating his handsome face. Lynda blinked. 

 "Mr. Xander, how could you..." Lynda's sentence was cut short, she didn't see any Nelvan wheelchairs around here, so how could this man help her out of the pool?

Lynda touched her lips, was this a dream or what? It seemed Lynda felt something strange, Nelvan snorted as he looked at Lynda. 

"Don't you want to thank me after I helped you who almost drowned to death?" 

"Ah, that. Thanks for helping me, but how did you get here?" asked Lynda in surprise. 

Damn, Nelvan just realized that he had forgotten that his wheelchair was left on the second floor, if he told the truth then his pretense of being disabled would be exposed. 

And Nelvan happened to see the cane that Hans had not thrown away, it was still there near the pavilion and had not been moved. 

"I used that, never mind. I'm wet because I helped you, so help me go to the room and clean up." Nelvan said. 

Lynda stood up first, she was also soaked, but thanks to Nelvan's help she did not drown, Lynda carefully carried Nelvan's body and went to the men's room. 

"Get my clothes ready and help me take a shower." 

"WHAT!" yelled Lynda. 

Nelvan turned his head, "I don't like repeating the same sentence to talk to you," Nelvan said. 

Lynda looked down and twisted her fingers after putting Nelvan on the closed toilet seat, "I'm sorry Mr. Xander, you shouldn't have asked for my help with the shower, that's your privacy and I don't want to..." 

"You disobeyed my orders! Do I have to let you drown to death like that!" snapped Nelvan sarcastically. 

Glekk. 

"Fill the tub with warm water, make sure it's not too hot or too cold." 

Lynda nodded, she turned on the water and adjusted it as Nelvan requested, after which Lynda went out to prepare the clothes the man would wear, Lynda closed her eyes, as long as she lived she had never helped a man bathe. 

Even Allexin had never been bathed by Lynda, so now a twenty-seven year old grown man was asking her to do it?

After Lynda finished preparing Nelvan's clothes, she returned to the bathroom to make sure there was enough water, and then Lynda carefully helped Nelvan into the bathtub. 

The man looked at Lynda, "Can I have a clean bath if I don't take off my clothes?" said Nelvan. 

"Mr. Xander, I can't do that, you can do it yourself." 

"Then what did I hire you for, if not to do my bidding!" said Nelvan. 

Lynda's heart was pounding, there was no way she could take off Nelvan's shirt and see this man's athletic body? What if something happens? Although Nelvan is handicapped, he is a normal man, but Lynda is afraid that something unwanted will happen. 

"Don't act like an innocent girl, there's nothing like that these days, you must have seen other men's bodies out there, so what's wrong with seeing one more person," Nelvan said. 

Lynda's hands clenched into fists, she had indeed seen a man's body long before she met Nelvan, but that man was Allexin - her brother. Nothing else. 

"What are you waiting for, do it quickly." Nelvan said forcefully. 

"Sorry," Lynda reached out with trembling hands to unbutton Nelvan's shirt one button at a time, but the sight of Lynda's trembling hands and the girl's reluctant face made Nelvan frown. 

Is this girl really as innocent as she looks? No way, Nelvan didn't believe that such a thing still existed, but if not, why was Lynda's hand trembling? 

Nelvan held Lynda's hand, and the girl immediately looked tense, as if she had never been held by a man before. 

"How old are you?" asked Nelvan. 

"Nineteen years old, sir," Lynda replied, still turning her face away, not daring to look at Nelvan. 

Lynda carefully tried to pull her hand away from Nelvan, "You can undress yourself, I can't." Lynda said, wanting to run away, but Nelvan grabbed Lynda's hand. 

Lynda's eyelids closed, her heart pumping faster with fear. 

"Who told you to go, do your job until it's done," Nelvan said. 

Lynda shook her head, her hand that Nelvan held trembled and Nelvan could feel it. 

What kind of reaction was this, did Lynda really dare not look at him or was this girl just pretending to impress him? But Lynda didn't turn around at all, which made Nelvan think that Lynda was still as innocent as she looked. 

"Do your duty now," Nelvan said, Lynda's eyes closed tightly and then she shook her head again. 

"I'm sorry Mr. Xander, I can't, if you tell me to do something I'll try to do it, but to undress you I don't dare, even if you ask me to, again I'm sorry." Lynda pulled back her hand that Nelvan had grabbed and ran out. 

Nelvan smiled wryly as he stared in the direction of Lynda's departure, one by one the buttons of Nelvan's shirt were removed and thrown near the basket, Nelvan stretched his arms out on the edge of the bathtub, his head looking up as he felt the warm water hit his skin. 

"I'll try later if you are as innocent as you look or if there are already men who have touched you, I don't think there are any women left who can maintain chastity at the age of nineteen, this time I won't be fooled by women, they are just parasites that need to be eradicated one by one, or if it can be done all at once it doesn't matter," he thought.