Athena finished cleaning the last room and gathered the cleaning stuff before exiting the room. She walked slowly through the dark corridor of the third floor. Only Roman Morin lived on this floor. The walls of the corridors were painted in light blue while the floor was wrapped in red carpets making it look bright and vibrant, opposite of what Roman Morin's character was.
Athena chuckled lightly while shaking her head at her thoughts. She shouldn't be thinking about those things and focus on her work instead. When she reached the second floor she heard Lexi calling her name. Athena turned around and smiled at her. Lexi was one of the maids in the mansion and was good towards her. She had light blonde hair, fair skin, and light blue eyes. She looked like those pretty mean girls from opera soap but her personality was the opposite. She was an introverted type of girl and didn't talk much. But she was kinda friendly towards Athena.
"What's the matter, Lexi?" Athena asked while taking steps towards Lexi. Her hands were occupied with the cleaning stuff and she couldn't wait till she put them away.
"I have been looking for you in the whole mansion. Where were you?" Lexi asked with a scowl, ignoring her question.
"Oh, I was cleaning on the third floor. What's the matter?" Athena replied with a small smile and then asked again? Lexi nodded and then heaved a sigh.
"Senior Morin is calling you in his study room. He said he has something important to talk to you about." Lexi informed Athena with a frown, maybe thinking what Henry Morin wanted to talk to Athena about. But as usual, she didn't voice her thoughts aloud.
"Oh, alright! I will go and see him. Meanwhile, can you take these things and put them away?" Athena asked while gesturing to the cleaning things.
"Okay." Lexi nodded and took the things from Athena.
"Thank you." Athena thanked her with a smile and moved her legs towards the study of Henry Morin.
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Upon reaching the door of Henry Morin's study, Athena knocked two times with her fingers and waited for his response. When she heard the faint come in, she decided to enter the study.
She slowly pushed opened the door and peeked her head inside first. Her eyes landed directly on Henry who was sitting on his desk's chair while crossing his both hands with each other. His elbows were resting on the table. His posture was neat and elegant. He looked like a true king.
When his gaze landed on Athena he smiled softly at her.
"Athena! Dear, come inside." He said in a warm voice making Athena smile. Athena smiled back and nodded before pushing her whole body inside the office through the door.
"Hi, grandpa! Lexi told me you were calling-" Her voice stopped abruptly the moment she looked towards the left side of the room where two sofas were placed. In front of her eyes, sitting elegantly on the sofa were Gabriel, Helen, and Roman Morin. She didn't notice their presence earlier so she looked at them kinda awkwardly. When she finally came out of her shock zone she looked towards them and smiled. Goerge and Helen smiled back at her but Roman glared at her.
"Uhmm grandpa, why do you need something?" Athena asked after a moment of pause.
"No, dear. But I want to talk to you about something important." Henry informed her in a warm voice while getting up from his seat. No one else present in the room said anything.
"Okay. What's the matter?" Athena asked, a bit nervous? She didn't know why he called her with his whole family's presence and what he wanted to talk about. She just hoped they didn't decide to fire her just because she had bumped into their elder heir for the 7th time this year. She couldn't lose the job as she didn't want to lose such a good fortune.
"Well, you see I'm getting old with each passing day and I don't know how long I will live, but before dying I want my grandsons and granddaughter to settle down with their own family." Henry started by stating his concern for his family. But Athena didn't understand what it had to do with her nevertheless she listened to him attentively.
"Oh, I understand your concern." She said sweetly, making Henry smile at her.
"As you already know, my oldest grandson is Roman, so I want him to settle down first. I'm looking for a suitable bride for him and for our family who could manage our family well and keep our family tradition. But there's no one more suitable for my grandson than you. That's why I want you to marry Roman and be my daughter-in-law." Henry finished and looked carefully at Athena who had a sweet smile plastered on her face.
"That's nice of you and I think- wait what!" Athena suddenly realized what Henry had said and looked at him with eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
"What? I think I heard you wrong, you want me to what?" Athena asked with a frown as her voice was filled with pure nervousness. Henry couldn't help but chuckle at her reaction. He already expected this type of reaction.
"You heard me right, Athena. I want you to marry Roman and be my granddaughter-in-law." Henry repeated his words making Athena look at him in disbelief. Athena then looked towards her left where Roman was sitting on the sofa with a blank look on his face. From his reaction, she guessed he already knew about this including his uncle and aunt.
"You want me to marry him?" Athena asked as he pointed at herself with a finger first and then at Roman who was sitting there with legs crossed, his eyes already fixed on her.
"Yes, Athena," Henry replied with a chuckle, making Athena look at him with a frown.
"Why? You aren't joking right?" Athena asked while looking at everyone suspiciously. This time Helen got up from her seat and heaved a sigh before coming towards her.
"No Athena. This is true. We want you to be our daughter-in-law." Helen said in a warm voice while holding Athena's hands. Athena looked at her in shock. She didn't know what was happening to her.
She was nobody but a lowly maid in their mansion who spent her whole life living in their pity.
She had no education, no etiquette, and no qualification to be the elder daughter-in-law of the prestigious Morin family. But still, they are asking her to be their daughter-in-law. Why?
"Why me?" Athena asked, her voice filled with confusion, worry, and nervousness.
"Because there's no one more suitable than you to be Roman's bride," Helen replied sweetly. Athena was about to say something when Henry stopped her
"I would like to talk to you about something, alone," Henry said in his authoritative voice. His message was clear. He wanted everyone else except Athena to leave the room. So one by one Helen, Gabriel, and Roman left the room without saying anything. Roman just looked at Athena coldly one last time before finally exiting the room, leaving her alone with his cunning grandfather who was hellbound to get him married to that girl!
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Athena slowly roamed her eyes throughout the whole room. It was a spacious room filled with nice-looking furniture. The walls were painted in purple and white giving a warm and welcoming vibe. Athena had entered this room a few times to clean it but she never expected someday it would be her room. Temporary to be exact. But still. The room had a huge balcony facing her favourite spot in the whole mansion. The garden. She could see the beautiful garden from the balcony of her room. It was on the third floor. Just in front of Roman's bedroom.When two days ago she got the shocking proposal from the Morin family she was shocked beyond her limit. She didn't know what to do or say. She didn't understand why they would choose her and why the Mighty Roman Morin agreed to marry a maid of his house when he could have any girl he wanted.
Athena looked at his face with a frown and then turned around to close the door."Closing the door? So eager!" Roman teased with a smirk making Athena go all red because of embarrassment."I didn't know the cold Roman Morin had such good humour," Athena said with a forced smile. Roman chuckled at her counter back."There's a lot of things people don't know about me," Roman said with a careless shrug."Cut the humour aside. Tell me what brings you here Mr Morin." Athena asked straight with a sweet smile plastered on her face, Roman was kinda taken aback by her straightness."Alright, have a seat first Ms. Carson," Roman said as his vo
Athena paced back and forth to calm herself but no matter what she couldn't calm down herself. It was finally the day she would get married to Roman Morin. It's a simple wedding which is going to take place in a church. Besides, they had already applied for marriage registration and collected the certificate a few days back.The traditional marriage rituals were to satisfy the old patriarch of the house.Athena couldn't say she was too happy. The only thing she was anticipating from the marriage was the job in Morin Corporation. It was like a golden goose that would lay golden eggs for her at the end of every month.She had already signed the contract which was sent by Roman and from thisday she would live with Roman in his apartment and that didn't make her feel
Athena slowly followed Roman and entered his penthouse. It was a well-furnished and luxurious penthouse. Athena was very tired after the long wedding ceremony and wanted to go to her room and sleep as soon as possible. "Which one is my room?" Athena asked while yawning. She looked like a disaster with her hair looking like a bird's nest. Roman turned around and looked at her expressionlessly. "Upstairs, first room from the left," Roman answered in a casual voice making Athena nod. "Thanks. I will get going then. Good night Mr Morin." Athena said and greeted him a good night before making her way towards the staircase to go upstairs. "R
It was already lunchtime by the time Athena finished making half of the report. She yawned while stretching her body. Her back was aching from sitting too long in the same posture. The office room she was given was a nice one. It was comfortable and everything was well furnished. She was given a personal computer to work on. Athena took her phone out and checked the time. Time to have some lunch. Thinking of food, her stomach grumbled. She didn't eat anything since morning and was very hungry so she decided to take a break and go to eat something. She packed her bag and was about to go out when the telephone on her desk started to ring. She became startled for a moment. She slowly picked the phon
It was around 9 pm when Athena finally finished sending the last email. She was exhausted already so she quickly put her things in her bag and grabbed her phone from her desk before finally making her way out of her cabin. She was holding the printed files in one hand and her stuff in others as she made her way towards Roman's office. The whole floor was calm and silent as everyone had already left. She sighed, thinking when she would be able to go home and sleep. Meanwhile, busy in her thoughts she finally reached Roman's office and knocked two times as usual before entering. She closed the door behind her back and glanced at Roman who was going through some files. As usual, he didn't bother to look up so she cleared her throat to get his attention to which Roman finally looked up at and before putting the file aside.
It's been two weeks since Athena joined the Morin Corporation as Roman's joint Secretary. Also, it's been three weeks since she married Roman Morin legally after signing the prenuptial contract and agreed to be his hidden wife.In the past two weeks, Roman didn't let a single opportunity go to waste to exhaust her. He did everything to make her work hard starting from making her do every single chore. She made his coffee, arranged his schedule, brought him breakfast, lunch and dinner, sent emails, and brought gifts for his clients to impress them. Everything!Athena knew he was doing all those to make her quit but she wouldn't. Instead, she did everything without any mistakes. But alas she always finds a way to mock or insult her which makes her angrier day by day.
Around 30 minutes later they all reached the five-star hotel where the party was going to take place.In the whole journey from Bianca's house to the venue, Athena almost got a headache seeing how hard Bianca was trying to impress Roman. She couldn't help but frown watching how causally Bianca was trying to get close to Roman. On the other hand, Roman didn't seem interested in her at all.He behaved politely and kept his distance much to Bianca's protest.Back to the present, Kevin parked the car and got out of the car before rushing to open the door for Roman. Roman elegantly got out of the car and went to the other side to open the car door for Bianca like a gentleman. Kevin then came to Athena's side to open the door for her but she had alr