The maid got so scared that she almost kneed on the ground. Quinn was a regular visitor at Joshua’s house, everyone knew that he was a good friend of Joshua’s, and not a person one should annoy.
“It’s alright, get to work.” He saw how scared the maid was, patted her shoulder and comforted her.
Stacy also saw Quinn, came running to him, and stood in front of him. She looked behind him, and asked disappointed, “Are you alone?”
Quinn paused, then answered, “How many should I bring? Since you don’t like Ashley, I have no choice but to come alone.”
“I don’t like her! I don’t like any women who take away handsome men!” She said, picked up a magazine from the floor, and started beating on the women pictures in it.
Quinn looked at the picture that Stacy was beating on, and saw that it was his good friend Bill Clinton, he was holding a woman, very lovingly. But the women only showed her profile, it was not clear to see. She was dressed in tight dress, her tiny body visible. But she looked like a small weak woman, not the kind that Bill used to like.
“Hm? This guy has a new girl?” Quinn took the magazine out of her hand, he was not surprised about Bill having a new girlfriend, but the way he was holding her. All of the pictures showed him holding her close to himself, not allowing the journalists to take a clear picture of her.
“I know right, so annoying! If I find out who she is, I’ll rip her apart.” Stacy said full of hate, not at all girly.
“You like Bill?” Quinn guessed her thoughts right, and Stacy nodded her head.
“Are you not afraid to get hurt? He is known to be a playboy, and he even said that he will never get married in his life, and never get bound to a woman. Do you really wanna take that risk?”
Quinn’s words were heard by Abigail who was upstairs. The Bill that Quinn was talking about seemed to be a completely different person than the Bill she saw yesterday. He was so gentle to her, taking care of her, even wanting to marry her.
Abigail once also thought that his words were fake, but the way he looked at her was real, his way of speaking to her genuine, he even took the risk of losing all his assets to Joshua. Was all that only a game to him?
Rich people had a weird way of playing games!
She shook her head, and thought about if she should go downstairs or not. Stacy and her never got along, and the incident with granny was not solved yet, if they met now, she definitely is going to start mocking her.
“Annie!” Stacy yelled, Abigail turned her head, and saw a hand being drawn back quickly. Annie was standing behind her, not even one hand apart from her, what did she want to do when she reached out her hand just now? Abigail saw panic in her face, but, it disappeared quickly.
“Are you not going down? What are you afraid of?” Annie said harshly, her voice full of despise.
Abigail replied “oh”, her way to back off was blocked, except for going downstairs she had no choice.
Stacy looked at Abigail, her eyes full of hate, and clenched her fists, as if she wanted to fight her. But then she remembered that Quinn was there, so she relaxed and smiled.
“Quinn, why don’t you teach me, how can I get Bill to like me? What kind of face does he like? What kind of make up? What kind of hair style? What kind of clothes? Tell me already!”
Quinn knitted his forehead into handsome folds, and pretended to be thinking, then he answered, “He is a womanizer, not a good person. Next time I’ll bring him here, and you can ask him yourself.”
“Really? That’s great!” Stacy was so happy that she hugged Quinn and wanted to kiss him, but he turned before that.
He awkwardly waved her off, and pointed upstairs, “Is your brother home? I’m here for him.”
He quickly went to the stairs, and passed Abigail, then he said lightly to her, “Hello Athena, have you been good these days?”
Abigail was uncomfortable about the way he called her, her face blushed, and she turned away from him.
“Bill… is not a good person, you … should better like someone else.” Even thought she didn’t like Stacy, but they were both women, she had to tell her.
“What are you, to tell me what to do. Slave.” Stacy got really mad, and let all her anger out on Abigail, she put all her energy into bullying her.
Abigail just tried to be nice to her, but this is what she got in return, so she kept quiet, and sighed thinking about her fate.
“Right, how is that even your business?” Annie took a step forward, and looked Abigail up and down, her gaze full of suspense. She took the magazine in Stacy’s hand, and looked at the photograph for a long time. Then she looked at Abigail again, like looking at a burglar.
“The woman in this picture looks like you. They had dinner last night, was it you?”
She looked her up and down a few times, couldn’t believe the similarities.
“No!” Abigail replied quickly, she didn’t want herself to be associated with the heartless Bill. Annie’s expression stiffened, she pulled over Abigail and said, “You abandoned Granny yesterday, is it because you met Bill? That picture is clearly you, look at your bracelet, same as in the picture!”
Abigail felt awkward, she didn’t think about the details, and didn’t expect her to recognize the bracelet.
Stacy was actually not interested in the incident with granny, but when she heard that it was because a date that Abigail had left granny, and it was even a date with her loved one, the fire was burning in her. She slapped Abigail across the face, so hard that Abigail was dizzy, and almost fell over.
“You!” She looked at Stacy, her eyes stubborn.
“You are a shameless woman!” Stacy pushed her a few times, until Abigail backed all the way to the wall, “How dare you go on a date with the man I like, and you hurt Granny! You don’t want to live anymore? I will show you what I am capable of, have you forgotten who I am?”
Stacy slapped Abigail again, twice in a row. Abigail’s mouth started to bleed, and her cheeks showed scratches from Stacy’s fingers, and it started to swell.
Abigail was not worried about her face, she just hit the wall hard, and something moved in her belly, she put her hand on it, and was worried about her baby.
“What are you doing? Are you telling me you are pregnant with Bill’s kid? It’s only been one night, that’s not even possible. And you are not worthy of his child!”
Stacy’s words made Annie’s face darken, she was watching Abigail again, this time her sight landed on her belly.
“No, you misunderstood, I am not feeling well these days, I am having diarrhea.” Her words reassured those two evil woman. Annie said, “I knew that you are not worthy, Joshua would never be so blind.”
Abigail was happy that she could hide her pregnancy from them. Her current situation did not allow her to tell anyone about her being pregnant.
Stacy only needed to think of her having dinner with Bill, and the anger was firing up in her, she took the bracelet that Abigail was wearing and ripped it off her wrist.
“What the hell is this, did Bill give you this? Don’t think that he likes you only because he gives you presents. It’s only normal for him to give presents to women.” She took the bracelet into her hand and watched it. It was made of normal materials, but the work was elegant enough to be sold in a jewelry store, even Stacy could not see the gentle and simple of it.
“That’s mine.” Abigail wanted to take the bracelet back, but Stacy raised her hand.
“You are not worthy getting gifts from Bill, bitch.” She said complacent, and held the bracelet against the light.
“Exactly, bitch. Stacy, don’t forget what she did to Granny yesterday.” Annie could not let Abigail go like that, and used the situation to blame her again.
“Tell me, did you beat up Granny to go and see Bill? You are an evil woman, I didn’t expect you to show your true colors this fast.” She kept asking her, her cold voice hitting Abigail on the face.
“I didn’t, you cannot treat me like this!” Abigail didn’t know how to explain herself, it was clear that Annie was the one who abandoned her, but she was just standing there like nothing happened, watching her being beaten up.
She lifted her chin high, not bothering Abigail, she stretched out her hand, and blew at it in the light, like an arrogant cock.
“Just admit it, you just like lying, no one will believe your lies.” Annie threw an evil look at Abigail. Only if Abigail admitted that she was the one who hurt granny and left her alone, she won’t be punished by Joshua, only then she had the chance to stay in the Caunter house, trying to marry into this family.
She won’ give up, it has been three years, she won’t just let her chance go.
It didn’t matter how Abigail tried to explain herself, she would not be excused by Stacy, she cannot admit things that she has not done, ever since she was small, she has not lied, and this time, she will not!
She shook her head, indicating her denial.
“Alright then, if you don’t admit it, then I will find a way to help you.” Stacy’s eyes were filled with hatred and evil, her mouth turned into a smile, and she took out her phone.
“Get me some people here!”
After a few moments, a couple of guards arrived, Stacy waved her hands to indicate her demands, “Take her to the freezer, without my permission, no one let her out.”
“Miss Caunter… This….” The guards stuttered, but didn’t move.
“Do I need to fire you? You dare not to listen to my demands? Are you done working here? Get out of here!”
The guards looked at each other, and nodded. The salary they got at the Caunter house was triple the money of anywhere else, how would they want to lose this job.
The cold air rushed out of the freezer, Abigail couldn’t help but to tremble all over. The guards were nice enough to her, no one used force on her, after bringing her in, they even apologized to her, “Sorry, Miss Michelle, this is Miss Caunter’s demand, there’s nothing we can do.”
“What are you waiting for? Do you wanna eat ice cream with her?” Stacy who was outside yelled. The guards nodded and left quickly.
“Close the door, and set the temperature below freezing point, I want her to freeze to death!” Stacy demanded, Abigail could hear the buttons outside the door while someone reset the temperature. It was already cold enough inside, just like winter, and the clothes she was wearing were so thin, that the cold hit her immediately. Her body was cold and stiff from the low temperature, it started to hurt.
She went down and hugged her knees tight to her body.
What did the guard call her? Miss Michelle? Apparently, with the help of Joshua, everyone in the house thought that she was really Michelle.
Was it sad? Was there shame?
She couldn’t describe her feelings.