Justin replied to Leah's greeting, "Good morning Leah, how was your night?" Justin was practically a free guy, and even though he knew that he was supposed to be strict with his staff and workers, he wasn't that type of guy that took life so seriously and should be demanding for respect all the time from his staff. He knew so well that Leah, Jesse, and their gate man, Alex, all respected him as he is their boss, just after his father, but he smiles with them and plays with them behind his parents' back, especially when his father isn't at home, as his mother usually turned a blind eye on his playfulness sometimes, but his father didn't approve of it at all, and always told him to maintain his distance of boss to servant relationship with their staff. "My night was fine boss, and yours?" Leah asked Justin as she paused her sweeping and stared up at his balcony again, he was leaning on upstairs. "Fine too," Justin replied, but his eyes remained focused on Olima, while Leah saw that he
Mrs Juliet's eyes shifted to stare at Mrs Gina as she finally walked out to the gate, meeting Mrs Gina's cold gaze on her. Mrs Juliet asked, "Why did you send her away last night from here?" Mrs Gina didn't know who the black beautiful woman standing in her presence was, as she knew most of the women in the Emerson estate were all big men's wives. "Pardon? Who are you to come into my house to question me?" Mrs Gina retorted. "Who am I?" Mrs Juliet scoffed. "I'm very ashamed of you, woman. You have a young daughter like her size and choose to send this young lady away by midnight last night. Yet, you could sleep so peacefully inside your room... how evil of you to be heartless to another human's daughter, let alone your stepdaughter too?" Mrs Juliet questioned coldly, but Mia's school bus finally arrived. Mia had no other option but to leave for school. Mrs Gina replied, "Olima is not welcome in this house again, as she dared to poison my daughter and me last night, attempting to
Olima's life had not been rosy after her stepmother's arrest as Mrs. Gina ensured to mistreat Olima even more. Mrs. Gina stated, "You didn't work for the money that you used in eating here daily, and yet you have the nerve to gang up against me and get me arrested. Really?" Mrs. Gina smirked as she stood in the center of the living room, and Olima stared downward and listened to her stepmother. Mrs. Gina said, "When I returned home, we will discuss this appropriately. And if you know what is best for you, you better prepare and leave this house for good." Olima was silent as she watched her stepmother finally leave the house shortly after returning from the police station. Olima could hear her stomach grumbling out of hunger while she returned back upstairs to her bedroom, as she was sure her stepmother had left the house. She later stepped downstairs from her bedroom and walked back to the kitchen to check for what she could eat. Olima saw the remaining noodles left, cooked it
Olima was absent-minded and walking down the estate road, leading down to her family house. She hadn't eaten since the previous night, and she could feel her stomach growling out so loud in hunger. She didn't even care about the cars that were driving past her along the road, as she knew it was already evening and nightfall was fastly approaching. With the sudden change of weather, Olima knew that it would soon rain heavily, and she was crying as she continued with her trekking home. She missed her parents and wished they were both alive and hadn't visited her school nor abandoned her to the care of her wicked stepmother. She could hear the sound of a car honking its car horn behind her back, but she was sure that she wasn't walking on the main road for any car to hit her or to ram over her. With tears filled in her eyes, Olima continued trekking home slowly, not until a figure that seemed familiar to her stepped down from the car that was parked ahead in front of her, and he rush
Olima was nervous as she stepped down from the car, and she followed Justin into his family mansion. She was scared as she knew how Justin's mother had reacted on the first day that Justin brought her into their home. She was scared of how Justin's mother would react again. Olima hesitated to follow Justin into the mansion, and he paused and said to her, "Don't be scared, come inside with me." Olima gulped hard as she nervously followed Justin into the living room. They climbed up the frontage first, before Justin pressed on the doorbell, and he finally unlocked it to walk inside with her, as she saw that his house had a recognition password. Olima gulped as she followed Justin into the living room. Even though she was a billionaire's daughter, she was practically scared. Justin stepped into the living room with Olima, hugging her closely. His back coat rested upon his right shoulder, and he was only wearing a white shirt and black pants with black shoes. Justin stared towards
"Tame his what? Honey, you're taking this too far, Leah, show her to the guest room first," Mr. Emerson spoke, and even Justin couldn't help but laugh at his mother's words as he finally walked up to meet his mother. "Mom..." Justin spoke as he touched his mother's shoulder and crossed an arm around her, side-hugging her. "I'm serious, Justin. How can I turn a blind eye to the fact that she's pretty? She has to live outside in the boys' quarters building, where my eyes will clearly see her from my room, and also see when you might possibly sneak into her room to be with her." This time, Olima's cheeks flamed redder at Mrs. Juliet's statement, and she immediately said, "No, ma..." "No, what? Don't you like my son too? Justin is handsome, and I know that you like him and the reason why you also want to stay here with us," Mrs. Juliet accused Olima, as her black eyes scanned Olima from head to toe in her red gown. Olima blushed harder as she really admires Justin, but she thought it
Olima walked back to her bed and she laid on it as she continued to think about her life. And with the fact that she wanted to become a nurse. She remembered that Justin's father had told her that he would contact the lawyer and get her father's will so that she wouldn't lack, and she would have to continue with her life and that made her smile. She remembered that Justin's father had said that he knew her parents too and she was a carbon copy of her mother's image, and she indeed was. She never even knew that her father had more houses in the big estate, and if Justin's father hadn't mentioned it, she wouldn't even have known about it. "Maybe that's why stepmom is sending me away, so that I won't have a share?" Olima thought. Even owning a share in her father's assets wasn't of interest to her before, as all she wanted was to live in a peaceful home and have a roof over her head. She slowly drifted to sleep after thinking so much for a while and feeling that her stomach was full of
Mrs. Gina arrives at home in the evening and she meets only Mia in the living room. She stepped inside and asked Mia, "What's wrong?" "Mom, Nathan said that Olima went out to your shop since in the afternoon, and up till now, she's not yet back," Mia complained. As she really hated Olima, she remembered seeing Olima in her bedroom when she returned the previous day, and also in the morning before leaving for school with her mother. Mrs. Gina stared at the living room wall clock time and saw it was already 8 pm. She said, "I didn't see Olima at my shop or in the market. Maybe she will soon be back from wherever she went too. Here, take this meal to the kitchen and serve it out. I'm coming downstairs; let me go upstairs first and freshen up." Mrs. Gina knew that she didn't buy any meal for Olima again. She could have given Olima money in the morning to buy foodstuffs and stock in the house and prepare it later, but she was not ready to feed Olima. She hated Olima and thought to fru