Chapter Nine

Besides, Kendrick must have gone to work. She didn't want to see his face.

When she left her room and got down the stairs, the servants avoided her like plague. Each kept a distance from her, giving her those weird looks. And the one that served her food as she arrived at the dining table, scuttled away immediately she was done.

Hailey sighed and ate her food silently. What did she care whatever they thought of her? They might as well gang up and confront her.

Still eating her food, she lifted her head to see the Butler walking in her direction.

"Good morning, Madam. I hope you had a splendid night," he stood by her side and said, a smile creasing his slightly wrinkled face.

Hailey blinked before she swallowed the food in her mouth. "Y–Yes... I slept well." She nodded hesitantly. Wasn't he the one that kept helping Kendrick bang on her door last night? And if the servants hated her, the Butler was like her number one enemy. What was he up to?

"Good!" The Butler beamed. "Master w