Mary shuddered even more, her heart beat even faster as she felt him hold unto her arm and prevented her from bending down. He pulled her up so that she could look into his face. Mary tried to keep her eyes down so that she would not have to look into his face. "You don't have to bother yourself okay?" He said softly, but Mary felt he was being sarcastic. "I would just simply ask another maid to clean it up" he still held unto her hand. Mary was surprised for a while. "You don't look okay" he said again. He took her hand and led her away from the chaos in the kitchen. "Are you not happy to see me?" He asked with a smile on his face, a smile that looked more like a smirk. "Or did anyone annoy you before my arrival?" He asked again. Mary did not know what to make out of the whole situation, but she told herself that she was probably over acting and she should try to act normal. She tried to paint a smile on her face, but she failed woefully. What was supposed to come out as a sm

They stared into each other's eyes for sometime, until Adonis broke the eye contact. "I'm off to bed, I'm feeling sleepy already" he said dropping the slice of pizza he had in his hand and getting up from the chair. "You can have the rest of the pizza in case you get hungry" he said looking down at her, and just like that he as gone. "What an audacity" Mary said angrily after he was gone. She looked at the time, it was almost midnight. "I had better go to bed lest I suffer a fatigue tomorrow" she said before she stood up. She looked at the box of pizza on the ground, ignoring it and not giving it a second thought she walked away with a sneer on her face. That night Mary locked her room door, because she was scared of Adonis. She was scared that he could come into her room while she was asleep at night and do something bad to her. She was even more scared of him because he was unpredictable, she could not even know what he was thinking. Why tell her thst story from hi

By the time Mary got home, it was already evening and the sun had started to set. She had expected Adonis to be back by now, but she was surprised to see that he was not yet back. She decided to use that opportunity to search his study, she still could not believe that the reason she had come to his house, and the same reason she had always ran around trying to search his study all the time was finally over. Mary laughed at all the things she had done in the past out of desperation to find out something tangible she could present to her boss. There were some stacks of papers on the table, Mary sat on his chair and started picking them up one after the other to read. They were just some official documents that Mary did not understand anyways. She left his office and started walking towards her next target, which was his secret room he had claimed in the past was out of bound. Mary opened the door, expecting some difficulties as usual but to her biggest surprise the door gave wa

Mary had her heart hung in her mouth, she swallowed hard having no idea how to handle the situation at hand. She was about challenging him and finally get to tell him to his face that he was a pathetic and and psychotic killer that would not mind harming his own grandmother just to cover up his mess. She was about about open up her mouth to cuss him when he pulled out a gun from his pocket and pointed it at them. Mary quickly pushed Emma behind her, but it seemed like she pushed too hard because the old woman ended up falling to the ground. Mary's mouth snapped shut as she looked at Adonis, all the curses she had originally planned to rain on him hung in her throat. "What are you trying to do?" He asked, his voice sounding more mean than it had sounded earlier. His eyes had gone blood shut, Mary feared that he had gone mad and would kill the both of them without thinking twice. Mary could not help but think if this was the same way Adonis had killed his parents, if this was th

Mary looked up at Adonis again only to see him still looking at her. She noticed he had been quiet all along, she felt ashamed to look into his eyes now, she really felt ashamed of what she had done. Emma continued her explanation. "I finally thought that when I presented Adonis to Oscar, I thought that at least he would be happy that he finally had a child with Lauren and stop treating her bad. At first, he became lenient with us and started acting a bit maturely towards us. He would but gifts for Lauren and Adonis. But that did not last long, after quitewa while he resumed his maltreatment on us again. I watched Adonis grow up in the midst of all of these chaos, but I could not do anything about it, I had no power to change anything. I could not even take him away from there because we had no other place to go to. I did not want to return to the streets with my child and grandchild, that would not be good for them. So we stayed. Oscar never showed love to Adonis as a child" M