(Pov Nadia)I should have seen it coming.And looking back now, I think I see the signs clearly. The way the other maids stopped talking when I walked into a room. The way Chef Margaret started giving me the worst chores again after months of leaving me alone.The way Mrs. De Montclair's personal assistant, Gloria, looked cruelly at me at breakfast that morning.I saw all of it. I just haven't understood yet what was going on.:At half past nine, They called me into the east drawing room.I remember smoothing my uniform before I knocked, well that's just a habit I'd picked up in this house ever since I started working as a maid, always trying to look neat and trying to be enough.My apron was pressed, my shoes were clean and I'd done everything right.I knocked twice at the door, just the way we were trained to, and waited. Then came her voice. "Come in."Mrs Helena De Montclair, my boss said, as I pushed the door open.She was seated at the head of the long settee, draped in a cream
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