CHAPTER 03

Walking among the tables, April made sure that all the clients were well served, nothing was lacking because the better service she gave to the clients, the better her own would be. Even if people thought that she worked in that place doing things that were not right for a single mother, the reality was that maApril de a different kind of living. Yes! There were women who were always ready to do an extra job in order to get some more bills, but April was not one of them. Slowly, she learned that every person had a reason to do things that might be questionable for others, and she had to respect that because she also had a reason to be working there even when she was already a mother.  

Suddenly, darkness and pure evil fell in that place without April herself having seen it coming, a bar that consisted of two floors with the men with a little more money upstairs because if there was something to be said it was that people with a lot of money did not usually go to that bar. So what was that man dressed all in black doing in that place knowing who he was? But it was time that April hadn’t seen him. It seemed like the whole world had turned their heads to see him enter but her. 

“Table number 43,” said her friend, handing over the order April had placed with her not five minutes before.

Annoyed and fed up with everything she had to do there and knowing that the night was long, April took the tray with the prepared drinks as she prepared to go upstairs. The more money people had upstairs, the more they felt the right to bother the women of the servants.

She couldn't refuse to go up to the second floor when that was her job. Perhaps, she would meet men a little more gentlemanly and they would tip her extra.

Sighing slightly, she continued on her way. With her eyes she was already looking for table number 43. As soon as she reached the table, she knew how to put a smile on her face. The men were watching her and if she didn’t want to lose that job, at least she had to show herself as a kind servant.   

“Good evening, please enjoy,” April said, handing over the drinks.

Three men at the table looked at each other as soon as they noticed the view they had because of the uniform the woman in front of them was wearing. The white tight blouse with three buttons down and the necklace that moved, crashing onto her firm breast made those men hallucinate. 

It was true that there were women with better curves and tighter waists, but that didn’t mean April hadn’t had that special enchantment that made men desire a little bit of her.  

Immediately, April knew how to read the signals those three were giving each other regarding her. For a minute she feared for her safety.

“Enjoy your evening,” said April with the intention of running.

One of the men being faster than her, he grabbed her arm roughly and pulled her back to him.

“What's wrong with you, sir?” April shouted, pulling away from him. Her pulse increased drastically. She felt like a fragile bird in the claws of an eagle. A damned eagle that smelled like it’d bathed in alcohol. 

“Don't play the saint, this is what all the women here do, so please me and my friends. We pay really well, darling!”

“Let go of me!”

“Don't you want to earn an extra tip, honey?”

“Let go of me, asshole!” She shouted, pulling away from the man.

The man smiled. “Call me whatever you want but kiss me!” Said the man, trying to kiss her.

By this time she could have had enough of what the world around her was doing to her. As soon as she felt being kissed by an asshole, April threw the first slap at the man only for the man to return her gaze with more force, ready to attack now the hard way.

Fearing what April was seeing in his eyes, she wanted to run only to end up being caught by the man's hand on her arm, the same one that was hurting her so much and in the end, end up on the ground with a single push. The fucking bastard had thrown her to the floor like she was trash and nothing else. April was being humiliated.  

A single tear fell from her eyes when she faced the floor. Maybe that was her place all along.