“You mean you would like to visit your friend and family over the weekend? It’s fine, you can have as many off days as you want” “No, that’s no what I meant” Mary swallowed hard. “Sir” she added as an after thought, laying more emphasis on the word ‘sir’ Adonis raised his eyebrows. His adam’s apple bobbed up and down at hearing her refer to him as sir. But he stayed silent about it. He urged her to go ahead and speak by nodding his head towards her. “What I mean is, I want to quit”. Adonis looked at her in disbelief for some time, he thought she was probably playing a prank on him. “What do you mean? Mary”. “I mean I want to quit, I don’t want to work here anymore”. “Why? Has Emma been hard on you again? Did she do something? Do you want my to talk to here? Should I…..” Mary cut him off before he could finish. “No, there would be no need for that”. “No. Tell me Mary, why do you want to quit?” “It is simple Sir, I do not want to work here anymore”.

They walked past her like she did not exist, with the woman swaying her hips from one side to the other like one who is participating in a beauty pageant. Mary immediately looked away, pretending not to have seen them. "It's not like I care anyways" she said with her arms folded. Mary's phone started vibrating again, it was Emma.Mary deliberated within herself if to do to her, or just continue to pretend like her phone was in the bathroom. While Mary tried to sneak up to her room, she suddenly heard a soft but authoritative voice. "Hey you!" She stopped and looked around, it was the woman Adonis had come home with. "You are probably a maid here, would you kindly get me a glass of wine?". Mary stood transfixed, watching her with agape mouth. She had no idea how to respond to that remark by the silly woman. Mary was so carried away in her thoughts that she did not know when the woman had come close to her. She only became aware of her environment when the woman sn

"I really understand how you feel Mary dear, this is exactly what you get when you fall in love with your rich boss" Mia said as she took a sip from that I've tea she held in her hand. "I know right, the heart never listens. It never allows you to choose who it would fall on love with, it just goes ahead to fall in love with whoever it choses, and now I'm in this mess". Mary rested her head on the chair she now sat on. "It's okay Mary, you would get over this in no time" They were both sitting in a shade by the road side sipping ice tea they had gotten from the nearby coffee shop. "His grandmother is not even any better, she is becoming even more and more harder on me. I can not wait to just get away from them both". "Come here Mary" Mia said spreading out her arms to her" Mary buried herself in Mia's embrace, feeling the scent of her perfume the smelt like flowers. Her scent reminded her of the flowers in Adonis gather when they open every morning and spread those beau

"Why did you stay out so late?" He finally asked. Mary felt a bit offended, why did he care anyways? "I was out partying with my friend, I lost track of time" she managed to say. Adonis nodded his head while still studying her. "You should not stay out late, it's not good for a lady" Mary nodded her head and started making her way upstairs again when he called her again. She turned to look at him. He opened his mouth to say something, and then he had it clamped again. "Never mind, you can go". Mary left his presence without much hesitation, she needed to get away from his piercing gaze anyways. Somehow the way he looked at her made her feel like he had recognized her earlier. But if he had, he should have said something about it right, that meant he didn't. Mary was too exhausted to change into her night clothes, so she just slept in her clothes. She just barely took off her shoes and tied her hair together to prevent it from scattering all over her face while

Mary sat in the garden staring absent mindedly into space, remembering how she and Adonis had kissed there the other day. ‘That was the good old days’ a dry smile appeared on Mary’s face as she thought about her Emma had pushed her around after she had spilled her chicken soup and broken her ‘most expensive plate’ once again she was glad that she had just three days to spend with the over bearing old woman and her arrogant grandson. That night, Mary got as much sleep as she could get. Emma had told her earlier in the day that she wanted her room fumigated, and she wanted Mary to do it in her words, there were roaches all over the place and they disturb her sleep at night. Mary knew there were no roaches, what she did not know was if Emma had to lie about the roaches being in her room or she actually thought there were roaches there. Whatever it was, Mary knew she had to obey her boss. At least she was still her boss until the next three days. Mary woke up the next morning in