Behind the mask

Chapter 5

Exactly 6pm, the man who was surposed to pick up Hadleigh arrived. He was a very huge guy, he looked a little more smarter than Mr Tran.

Hadleigh had already out Leon to bed, before leaving him with a silent goodbye. She gut her things ready and left for the house with the guy.

Before they left Mr Tran made sure to remind Hadleigh of whatever they had talked about.

In roughly an hour and half, the car came to halt in front of a beautiful golden gate, designed with crawling flowers at the top. On the fence just by the gate hung a reflective and bold name plate. "Mancuso Home".

The man got down from the car and went to speak with the security guards. They engaged in a short talk, before calls were made. The man stepped back into the car and the gates were opened.

It was the most beautiful sight Hadleigh had ever seen. The house was a modern mansion built in the middle of a very big and beautiful compound. The compound was bigger than Hadleigh's entire neighborhood, it was like a royal home.

The house was mostly made of glass and the beautiful gardens around made it even more attractive. The car was packed in one of the lot just a little close the house. They stepped out of the car and walked towards the front door.

The front door was made of beautiful antique material. It was an auto open, all you had to do was look into the camera hanging a little low st the top of the door.

They heard the clicking sound and the door flew open. Hadleigh and the man stepped into the the house while the door closed behind them. Her jaws dropped at the sight. Though the house was looking modern from the outside, the inside was designed completely with beautiful and expensive antiques.

All the windows as and doors were locked and curtain were covering all of the glass places we had seen from the outside, but the house was still as bright as ever.

Hadleigh sat comfortably on one of the chairs in the lobby, while the man paced back and fourth. she was so confused why he wouldn't just sit his a*s down and wait patiently, did he forget he was dealing with a rich man .

Hadleigh got tired of watching him do the same thing over and over again so she decided to close her eyes and rest before the hell part of her life starts. she leaned backwards and rested her head on the sofa, in few seconds she fell asleep.

Shortly after Hadleigh heard careful footsteps coming their way, since she was deep in her sleep yet she reluctantly opened her eyes.

She saw a beautiful red haired lady walking up to them, she was confused as to who she was because the lady was richly dressed in her white pin-ups and rumors had it that Mrs Mancuso had died in a car accident so who could she be??.

The man quickly walked up to her. "Ma'am I've been waiting for you, I'm running late for another work".

"Oh I'm sorry, I was busy completing some necessities, I couldn't come down".

She turned to Hadleigh and back to the man."Is she the one?".

"Yea, will you take her?".

The lady laughed before continuing. "You know it doesn't work that way. Does she have any experience?, Has she done this before?".

"No, she really hasn't done this before but I promise that you won't regret it".

She stayed silent for a while and carefully observed Hadleigh who was now on her feet before she turned back to the man.

"Okay. We will try her, if the boss is ok with her then your job is over, you can come for the payment".

"Okay ma'am, I'll take my leave".

The man turned around and left, leaving Hadleigh alone with the lady.

"Hi I'm Julie, everyone calls me Madame Julie so you can call me that too. I'm the home manager".

Madame Julie extended her hand out to Hadleigh, which she took and replied.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Hadleigh".

"Wow beautiful name. You look tired, will you take some rest and resume tomorrow?".

"No, I'm fine".

"Ok then if you say so, let's start with the tour of the house".

"Kk"

Madame Julie called one of the other maids to take Hadleigh's things to one of the rooms in the maids quarters.

The tour of the house took more than thirty minutes. Hadleigh was tired by the time they were through. She was f*******n from entering two rooms, the one in the basement and the one directly opposite the bosses room.

Just as soon as Hadleigh sat down to rest, a low bell rung through out the house. Hadleigh was so confused, and as if Madame Julie was reading her mind, she chuckled.

"It's almost time for dinner and since you are knew here, you are going to cook for the boss today".

Hadleigh's eyes widened the only people she had ever cooked for were her mother, father and brother. They are whatever she ate, but how was she supposed to cook to the taste of the don.