Chapter 12
It was my second day at the Stone household when I finally decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and stepped into the drawing room to relax, instead I could feel eyes on me from all around…some merely curious, others watching with disdain.
“Miss Lavina Winslet.” the head maid greeted me with a smile before gasping. “Oh sorry! I forgot that you have cut all ties with your family…then Miss Lavina please have a seat.” Even when felt her unwelcoming stance I just gave a look before turning around to be seated.
It was at that moment, the chair was drawn away and an exotic woman dressed in a maid dress occupied the only seat near the fireplace as she gently sipped tea from a crystal glass. Disgusted by such childish meathods of bullying I was turning around to leave when a voice echoed.
“Lavina is it? I just needed to confirm…” the girl Elysia spoke, smiling coldly. “..if the rumors about you were true.”
“What rumors?” I asked my mood deteriorating with each passing second
“That Damien Stone brought in a woman. A pregnant one at that to become his fiancee.” she added, glancing at my stomach like it was an eyesore. “And gave her the most luxurious west wing which has always been empty.”
“Elysia, child it is master Damien’s wish, he is momentarily taken by Miss Lavina’s… ‘charms‘.” the head maid warned softly as she glanced my way.
“Repeat what did you just say?” I asked my voice making the temperature drop.
“Oh! Please don’t be mad with this child’s antics Miss. Please forgive her, she is not mature like you and has just celebrated her nineteenth birthday a month ago.” the headmaid said, subtly
mocking me.
“Elysia grew up here. She forgets her manners because of how much the young master Damien spoils her…they used to be childhood playmates and even now have a envious relationship.
Last month on her birthday Elysia sent a big cake to master so that he could eat it and also share yet the young master did not allowed anyone to even take a whiff-”
“Because I wondered if it was poisoned or not and directed the servants to throw it in the
thrash.” a deep voice snapped like thunder.
I turned my hands clenched in fists.
Damien stood at the archway watching me and his expresion expression carved in stone, the air dropped ten degrees instantly.
Butler Peter along with a group of specialized servants followed behind Damien’s wheelchair looking at the headmaid like she was foolish.
“Who authorized you to enter this wing when I prohibited anyone to disturb Lavina.”
Silence engulfed the surroundings as the headmaid’s complexion turned pale while Elysia stood straight.
“Master has asked a question, if you didn’t answer the don’t blame us for being cruel.”
“I… I just wanted to welcome her, Damien-” Without a second thought a healthy maid stepped
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forward from behind Damien and slapped Elysia so hard that she fell to the ground, clutching her
cheek in horror.
Her lips trembled.
“It’s ‘master‘ for you, only Lavina can call me by my name.”
“I used to live here!” she said trembling. “You used to be friends with me so how can you throw me like this-”
“I don’t remember.” Damien said flatly.
“Please see the truth!” Elysia turned to me with angry eyes. “She is manipulating you. Everyone
sees it.”
“Really?” Damien asked with deadly calm. “Then I suppose I have gone blind. This is a formal residence, not a place for your disgusting illusions. I have been enduring your foolishness till now but you dare bully Lavina and call our child a ‘bastard“?”
My heart clenched..our child‘?
To think Alexander rejected his bloodborn child but Damien referred to the baby as his.
“Your child Master please forgive us! We didn’t know that it was your baby!” The head maid stepped in trembling. “Sir, my daughter only thought about you, please forgive her..please.” “Forgive her? Then what about you? You taught her this behavior.” he said sharply. “You let her believe she could waltz into my estate and sneer at the woman that I adore?!”
My heart beated wildly, I was thinking that I have come across another Stephanie and yet. Damien didn’t even think twice before defending a stranger like me.
“M–Master I–I have served this household for seven years.” the headmaid said, voice quivering. “Surely that counts for something-”
“Then let me compensate you well for your duty.” he said icily. “Get out. Both of you. You are fired and without a letter of recommendation, I will make sure you have to beg in streets..”
“Sir, please! Sir! No!”
Two security men approached at once.
The headmaid’s face turned white. “Sir please, this job is all I have-”
“And Lavina was all I had when no one else stood by me!” Damien said sharply making me look at him in confusion.
Have we met before?
He turned away before I could ask, his voice quieter but still razor–sharp. “Get them out of my estate. I don’t want to see their shadows near this wing again.
Everyone remember this thing from this day, if you go against Lavina Winslet, I will take it that you are going against me!““”
Elysia burst into tears as they were dragged away.
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