06: Passing The Test.

The next few weeks were worse than Leonor could've ever imagined. She had even more jobs to do than the other new maids there. She knew they all hated her and that was why they were treating her so awfully, but she didn't have the nerve to refute them.

She accepted it all, as she would rather not raise gazes or attention to herself. She planned to lie low and, if possible, avoid meeting Armando as much as possible.

The first week, she was never allowed upstairs and had to clean the underground cell rooms and even the torture room. The routine was to tidy up the place by sweeping every morning, and then bringing food and water to some prisoners down there. That part she loathed the most, especially because there were a few men who always threw hits on her and one of them even grabbed her by the arm while revealing his decayed teeth.

She had once gone in there and heard Armando's voice followed by a gunshot. Her heart trembled as she realized that Armando must've killed whoever it was that was being tortured. She was about to break down in fright but then Reina, one friend she managed to make among the other girls, had told her to act as though she didn't see anything, that's the only way to survive here.

She nodded in reply and they both went into the torture room after Armando's men had taken the body out with a body bag. Leonor steeled her heart as she began cleaning up the blood with Reina and Natalie. Once they were done, they had to burn up the clothes used to clean up the blood. According to Lorena, they had to do this to destroy every evidence that may lead up to their master.

Leonor realized that the women here were nothing but robotic pets for Armando. Every night, one girl gets chosen to warm up Armando's bed and every night they are all cheery and hopeful, like little pets seeking love from their master. The lowest-graded maids, on the other hand, worked their butt off so they could at least have the right to be close to their master and even clean his shoes.

To them, he was a god. A sex god they wanted to worship for the rest of their lives. Their behaviors didn't quite sit well with Leonor, and she tried her best to change the mind of Reina about Armando. But then Reina refused to be brainwashed by Leonor and warned Leonor to stop speaking badly about their master, or else she wouldn't mind cutting things off with her.

Seeing that her only friend here was completely seduced by that demon of a man, Leonor couldn't help but let out an exhausted sigh. She made a few diggings on him though and got little mostly useless information. She also got information about all the doors in the villa to be able to escape, she realized that escape was impossible. Because the main gate is opened by a fingerprint, and only five people's fingerprints can open the door.

The first person was, of course, Master Armando himself. The second was Master Armando's supposed girlfriend, Melissa Davis. She is a stubborn, annoying, and arrogant young lady who claims to be the lady of the house. Her presence in the house annoyed everyone in the villa, and they were all elated whenever she went on vacations.

The third was the gatekeeper, Endo. He had been personally trained by Armando and was one of his most trusted Elites. The man was sworn to Armando like a kite to a string and would never betray him, even at the cost of his life. The fourth and fifth people were Lorenzo and Luca, they were the closest to Master Armando and the maids believed that they were all probably groomed together. But then they had a stark contrast to Armando because of how more humane they are.

Leonor completely gave up the idea of escaping and only focused on doing her job properly. She had to sweep, scrub, wash, clean, and even wash the legs of the higher-grade maids. The highest-grade maids were more or less concubines. They spend their days ordering the other maids around while taking good care of their skins.

The higher-grade maids were the ones allowed to go in and out of Master Armando's room and study as they pleased, and the other maids knew they all frequently visited only to seduce him.

That night was the night of the ranking, and Lorena came forth to pick the maids that would advance higher. To advance higher, there had to be tests done on the people chosen.

Once it got to the turns of the lowest ranks, Reina was called, and she was so excited that she almost squealed. They called other maids too and once it got to Leonor's turn, she called her out with a look of disgust and Leonor couldn't hide her displeased expression.

It was finally time for the test, and the first test was a body examination. Reina passed as expected, it was all because Reina took extra care of her skin and was probably the most beautiful among all the girls. She had to put her all into being the best if she was going to slide her way into Armando's bed somehow.

The last person to be examined was Leonor. Based on dressing, she failed completely as she didn't dress as sexy and stylish as the other maids and didn't even apply makeup to make her skin brighter. Instead, she looked haggard from all the work.

This was done deliberately by her anyway, and she was proud of her doings when she saw the examiner look at her in disgust.

The next was the physical check, everyone else made sure they didn't have as much as a scratch on their skin, but Leonor had been opening up the scratch on her leg every day for the past few weeks as she knew they had the examinations every month and wanted to make sure she fails.

The next examination was the internal check, where your health is checked and blood is drawn out of the skin to check for any sexual diseases or illness. She passed that one perfectly, with not much of an active parasite in her body.

Two maids were taken to be exiled in the underground cell room because they had been tested positive for STDs. Thankfully, Reina only had a mild fever parasite in her body that would be inactive as long as she didn't stay in the rain for too long.

After the whole examination had been done, the 16 maids chosen had all stayed out in a perfect horizontal line waiting for the final results to be read. The examiner came out with her book and called out the names of the maids who ranked.

"Stephanie, Natalie, Linda, and Reina. You passed the exams and your wardrobes are being cleared out now. The rest will be punished for not passing the exams by 12 strokes."

What?

I will be stroked for not passing the test?

Leonor was about to speak up when a maid suddenly walked up to the examiner and whispered a few words in her ears. She suddenly turned her gaze to Leonor suspiciously, and she knew they were talking about her.

"It seems I made a mistake in the calling. Leonor also passed the exams. Your uniform is already in your wardrobe."The examiner seemed to be gritting her teeth as she said that, but Leonor was even more angered than she was.

How did she pass the examinations when she only got 1 out of the three? This made no sense, and she could tell Armando had something to do with it.

Leonor couldn't refute this though, between advancing and getting flogged she would rather advance and still keep her head low. Besides, it is just one rank up, right?

She was wrong…

She ranked up four times higher, with Reina Ranking up two times higher. This, of course, made the resentment of others increase towards her. Even Reina despised her, saying she had only been playing around acting innocent when she was seducing the master behind the scenes to rank up faster.

Leonor tried her best to explain to Reina that she didn't plan for this at all and instead did her best to fail the exams. She had no idea why Master Armando decided to make her go four ranks up. Reina didn't believe her though and their friendship ended.

At her new rank, she had a new uniform and couldn't refuse to wear it this time. Not because it was decent, but because her rank was the second to the highest rank. Her dresses are always monitored, and she was even getting bathed by force since she refused to comply.

Within just the first four days of being at her rank, her skin tone had more color. Her body was flawless and her makeup always made her look even more beautiful. Reina, who was once the most beautiful, became second to Leonor in beauty among all the maids. This fueled her rage even more.

As the second to the highest rank, she had the job of making Armando and his men's meals. She also had to serve them coffee in the mornings. She also found out that the highest ranks always served Master Armando's dinner wearing nothing but G-string panties and bikini bras. They were almost on nothing whenever they went to serve him.

Armando had a room that was always closed, and every night the highest-ranking maid he chose would kneel before the red room and be only allowed in after Armando gave her the go-ahead. Only the highest and second highest-ranking maids were allowed at the topmost floor of the building. The other maids couldn't even go near it.

On this particular day, everyone was in a buzz, and seemed like their patience was like a breaking thread. "What's going on?" She asked a lower-rank maid when she got to the last floor.

She had planned to go to the kitchen and make coffee for the men but saw the whole maids bustling around keeping everything extra tidy.

The maid though really didn't want to reply to Leonor, as she was also among the anti- Leonor maids in the villa. She also loathed Leonor very much but must reply to her because she had a greater ranking.

"The Lady of the house, Miss Melissa, has returned from her vacation. Her car just pulled up in the drive-through right now."

As the maid said that, Leonor suddenly remembered all that she heard of Melissa Davis and decided that she had better truly keep her head low for the entire time Melissa was here and hoped she would leave soon. She turned to head back into the kitchen when she heard the loud clicking sound of womanly heels as they made contact with the tiled floor.

Out of curiosity, she turned to look at the woman who was approaching her. She turned to find a beautiful damsel walking right towards her and couldn't find her voice anymore, she had heard stories of praises about Melissa, but they were all just gossip, and she didn't bother or care about them. But now, as she had witnessed Melissa's appearance with her own eyes, she realized that the rumors hadn't even praised her beauty enough.

Melissa had black wavy hair and adorned herself in a red skimpy outfit that was, as expected, too revealing. She had brown eyes and a perfectly bridged nose, and her long legs could make any man fall to their feet.

But Leonor barely had time to register her appearance as she watched Melissa's hand fly to her face. Melissa had smacked her hard. For what?

"What the fuck!" she cursed and gazed up into her brown eyes in anger.