"You're not his wife!" "But I am the mother of his child! And I have an equal share in this family!" Camila's life turns blissful when she gets pregnant by a billionaire and now she is the daughter-in-law of the Russells, basking in luxury and privilege. But she will never have one thing she has always craved, and that is a loving relationship. Or will she? Being rich comes with problems money can solve and others money can't. As she faces the life-threatening hassles of being a daughter-in-law and wife to Konrad, her perspective begins to change. Will the love that blossoms turn her into a good person or is it all just a facade to become the next billionaire in 9 months?
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"Is this what I said I wanted?!" The woman's raging voice took me off guard and I was trying to explain myself. Melody was in the bathroom taking a break and I didn't mind helping her deliver an order but it seems I had mixed it up.
"I-I…" I was so confused, I was just a cleaner, sure I was used to getting shouted at but this woman was impossible, "but this is your order ma'am." I was very positive I didn't mix up the tables and give it to the wrong person.
"There's too much salt, the meat is undercooked!" She hissed at all the problems and I was getting irritated, "Eat it yourself!" She dumped the food on me and time froze.
Everyone was in shock and she didn't seem to bat an eyelid at me but my blood was boiling but I couldn't do s thing.
"What is going on here?!" I could hear my boss stump in at the wrong time like an angry elephant, "Miss Donna! You're here tonight?!" He was shocked to see one of the prestigious guests of the famous Euphoria Hotel.
"And it seems you don't want me to ever be here again cause you sent this disgusting witch to poison me!" It was the wild claims and then my boss turned to glare at me daggers but my eyes gave me away. I didn't do anything.
"No, do not take it like that, she made a mistake and she will apologize, Camila?" His glare got worse and I felt like dying there and then.
"I'm sorry." It was barely audible and she snorted at me.
"Another one will be brought for you, on the house." He managed a smile before dragging me away from the scenery, "are you for real?!"
"Do you really believe what she just said about me boss?!" I was shocked to my bone, I guess rich people had the same way of thinking.
"I don't care what she says but she is worth millions, so don't mess anything up or you'll be out of here. Got it?!" I didn't get the chance to speak any further before he left me.
I was covered in steak juice and greens, it was so humiliating and no one deserves anything like this, rich or poor. But the rich always treated us, poor people, like servants. They could use our blood and still not care about what happens to us.
I sniffed back my tears and grabbed my cleaning equipment, going back to the spot the embarrassment happened and began cleaning the mess. I could still hear them whispering and snickering at me.
I locked my eyes to the floor and a tear fell from my eyes as I heard someone call me a loser. A word I was very familiar with, especially in high school. Just because I had no parents, everyone hated me and bullied me.
I was even assaulted and they all thought I was lying because it was a rich school and I got into it via scholarship.
More tears fell to the floor and no matter how many times I wiped, more tears kept falling. I was shattering slowly as my trauma came back to me.
I quickly got to my feet and as I turned, I hit someone who was just behind me. Shit, not another rich person!
"I'm so sorry, are you okay?" I checked his jacket as he stood still like a rock, his eyes were a bit red and he didn't seem stable but he held out a hand telling me to stop.
"You're trying to mess up my date like you did Miss Donna?" I knew that voice from anywhere, Amber. I rolled my eyes as I made sure he was okay, "Just watch where you're going next time, if you weren't so clumsy, you won't be looking like a meal on the menu, thrown into the garbage." She snickered at me and I took a deep breath just to make sure I didn't throw her into a dumpster. Dead.
But the man kept staring at me, jet black hair and piercing hazel blue eyes, I was melting, my knees were knocking and I could feel a bit of heat gather in between my legs. His energy was magnetic and it was pulling me in fast.
"Let's go." His voice was just as deep as his stare and Amber happily skipped away with him. She had bagged a really good one and I'm sure he would give her a lot of money. But that was the last thing I wanted to do, sleep around for money.
After the assault, I barely managed to get a boyfriend.
I went straight to the bathroom to clean myself, I turned on the faucet first and grabbed some soap. My reflection caught my eyes and I had a good look at myself.
I looked horrible. My hair was looking like an old abandoned wig that hadn't been brushed in a year, I had dark circles underneath my eyes and I was starting to break out.
"Camila…" I had no idea when I broke down, this was not the life I wanted and I'm very sure my parents didn't want me either. Maybe if they didn't give me up for adoption when I was a baby, it would have been different. It would have been so different.
I sank to my knees in the corner of the bathroom and cried my eyes out, I would do anything to change my predicament. I couldn't keep living this way, having everyone walk over me, was I cursed or something?
I spent at least 30 minutes crying and when I was done, I was numb. I washed my face and cleaned myself up before going back to my duty. As the cleaner.
It was time to check the rooms and I made sure each one was clean and ready for the next use. I walked lifelessly, doors passing my view till I sighted Amber and that rich man coming out of a room. They passed me by as Amber clung to him, disheveled but smiling stupidly. I guess I had to clean that next.
I stood at the door and exhaled before I opened it. The room still looked neat, the bed looked like an explosion just happened. That's why she was smiling like that. I took the sheets off first and put in new ones. As I arranged a few things, I saw a snake in the corner of my eye.
"Snake!" I yelped, practically jumping on the bed but it didn't move. When I looked closer it wasn't a snake but some kind of latex and an indication that I needed sleep.
I moved closer and grabbed it, a used condom. I held my barf back, I can't believe I just picked that with my bare hands. I was about to dump it until a thought came to me. I stared at the ticket to my freedom long and hard, fighting my conscience.
I had heard so many stories of rich men getting poor girls pregnant and having to take care of them. I never wanted to do such a thing but maybe this was my only chance. I could be a billionaire in just 9 months!
I kept the condom in my pocket and pushed my cleaning equipment out of the room.
Konrad and Camilla stared at each other and around her there was tension that words did not express. The light which was coming from the lamp was too low. They cast long shadows on the wall as if the danger was reflecting on them. Camilla’s heart pounded, and her breath quickened as Konrad approached her cautiously; his actions slow but for the grimace on his face.“You need to go,” he whispered and the tone of his voice was unemotional, calm.Camilla blinked and all the confusion was drowning her face. “What?”Konrad’s jaw tightened. “Go to my father. Stay with Lev. His security will protect you,” he continued while pointing at the painting.“No,” she breathed out softly, raising her head slightly upward. “I am not leaving you here alone,”Her words are still here in the room like a beam of despair. She did not understand why she wanted this—why her heart was painful and why she shivered every time thinking that he would be injured once more. It did not align with her schedule, her m
Camilla opened her eyes to see the outline of her room reflected in a very low light. For a moment she did not know her location and her ideas were vague and confused. This is because the bed’s soft pressure felt strange underneath her; the surrounding air was too quiet, and heavy.Then a hundred memories flooded in on her.The assassin. Konrad.She could feel a pounding in her chest as if her heart was trying to escape, the room was spinning as she rushed to sit up. A brisk pain pulsated, deep below her head and reaching for her neck, so she gasped, touching the zone. The crash of thoughts whirled in her head, forming thoughts of the shadow in the hall, the blow that was dealt and the blackness that followed it.Konrad.Where was he?A jolt of panic rose up through her breastbone as she thought through the options. Has the assassin killed his target yet? Was Konrad lying lifeless in his room while she had been left to wake here, not even realizing how useless she was?No.She was una
The celebration was starting to die down. The lights were still twinkling in enormous crystal chandeliers adorning the room, theμmuisc continued to fill the air and most of the guests still stood around their wine glasses, but the mood was different. People became more reserved and there were few smiles left; Lex, the ever perfect host, was bowing down to the last congratulations.Camilla and Konrad were finally engaged.Camilla sighed deeply when she stopped next to the base of the grand stairs; the cold stone of the banister under her thick glove echoed the coolness of the night’s confusion. The weight of Alois’s stares were like a feeling of itch which she could not scratch as she wanted. For the last one hour she had stayed clear of him, or rather it had not been easy at all.By her side, Konrad sat morose and morose, a man at odds with a partying crowd that was even now streaming through the doors. He had not uttered a sound since his father loudly boomed out the happy news, thou
Camilla twirled the flared fabric of the gown she wore and glanced at the dressing table as the sounds of voices talking faintly reached out from behind the walls. The weather was hot and uncomfortable at that time of the evening and she couldn’t disassociate the uncomfortable feeling to whether it was caused by the room or the tension. At the other end of the room, Konrad sank against the casement, his back rigid, his fixed stare travelling through window glass to the horticultural plots far below.She looked at him for a while – the way his jaw clenched and the look of distant focus in his eyes. He had known that he had been grumpy about the engagement—it was his father’s engagement to be precise—But Konrad had never been one to express how he felt in articulate terms.The only time he did was when he saw her naked.“Don’t tell me you’re intending on moping through the entire evening, we're getting engaged.” Camilla remarked in a tone that was bright, but her eyes giving her a pseud
Konrad sat perched on the edge of the wooden bench in the garden. He couldn’t focus. Again and again, His mind went back to the moment; he could not think straight. That he had seen Camilla—his girlfriend—naked was not enough; what was terrible was the feelings that followed it. The shock, the guilt, and something further that was more ominous that he couldn’t place a name to.Camilla wasn’t just anyone. She was the woman he was in love with, or so he thought, the woman he respected, the woman he was open with. However, the man was provoked into saying something he did not know he was capable of confessing in this period of utter anguish and helplessness.He hadn’t intended on walking into the room like that. The door had been half opened and he believed she was not there. However, as soon as he entered, everything stopped and so did he. So there she was, standing by the bed, changing. The surprised look in the widened pupils of her eyes was as much a replica of his as she frantically
I had never seen her like that before.The words kept repeating themselves in my mind as I paced back and forth in my living room. She had been furious, a whirlwind of emotion, and everything I had done seemed to push her further into that storm. But that wasn't the worst of it. No, the worst was how my mind kept drifting back to the one thing I could never unsee.Her.Naked.I winced as the image flashed in my head again, followed by the memory of her anger. I could almost still hear her yelling, her voice fierce as she hurled things at me—vases, books, whatever she could get her hands on. It didn't make sense. What had started as a quiet conversation had spiraled out of control so fast that I couldn't keep up. I had no idea why she was so upset with me, but it didn't help that I couldn't tear my eyes away from the way her body moved. I was trying to focus on her words, to apologize, to do whatever it would take to make things right. But her beauty... her nakedness... It was overwhe
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