The maid and the young heir

k stain that seemed reluctant to disappear. Amelia didn't know if it was blood or dried red wine

rolled up, her braid falling to one side, her knees red from all the scrubbing. The scen

ut

her

or of her mother's room, begging her to lend him

isappeared the

vy silence he

vibrated in h

hands and poured a little

wn. He owes money to some bad guys

t her spin

gs tre

pped throug

whole world seemed

o, no,

he. She couldn't think. Only one thought crossed her mind: I have

heir marks behind her as she ran. But, in her desperation

through the

s that cost more than her entire life. Everything gleamed, eve

here

o De l

led in a perfectly intentional way, leaning aga

d her up

weren't

of the trash she was

are you do

ggressive. It was

erence that hurts

hammering in her chest, her face flush

a step t

you don't come in her

wallowed. Rage and fear mingled with

to speak. S

ding Amelia's intense and conflicting thoughts as she runs away,

took ano

k one s

for a second, she didn't know if she w

didn't d

aze, turned around, an

xplaining

lookin

e

ragged on, the

but she didn't s

shining marble and his arrogant

you doin

Now everyon

e in that way. You shou

ear, a more bitte

look at me

were wo

part of the di

turned into someth

a

g. He doesn't know what's happening to me

running lik

k and his expensive shirt... th

yes b

't going

t of them.

an mop the floors.

ed the mansion's back door and disappeared, leaving only a trail of

s as the maid's figure d

ass still in her hand, unmoving. The liqu

e hell w

't answe

n't apo

er her head like th

shoul

't used to b

ly not b

s and disheveled hair as if

teps, quickly gla

rks were there

sy, hurried

eeing from someth

fro

n't kn

she

rough the main hallway? Wh

a punch to the s

re they putting

ed that l

he saw when the

mix. Pain. Pride.

with a soaked uniform and

e hall and walked in the opposite directi

e had look

were the

low that, not even

with hands full of ble

are, 'little mop princess,'" he

dn't even deign to tell him her name-was going to become,