The spy who stole my heart

Chapter 3: Working for the target

Laura's POV

I stood in the gigantic living room with my luggage waiting for Anderson to come downstairs. His security let me in through the gates and a staff in the house allowed me come into the house. As I stood there waiting for him, I wondered what my first plan to bringing Anderson down should be. I already had a few ideas but I still had to go through them to see if they were perfect plans.

"You're here," a voice said, interrupting my thoughts.

I turned in the direction of the voice to see Anderson coming down from the stairs.

"Good evening Mr. Smith," I greeted.

"You're welcome. I can see you're here with your things. I'll ask one of the maids to take you to your room. Your job here is home keeping. You take care of my bedroom and study. That's your duty in this house. Got it?" Anderson asked.

"Yes Mr. Smith," I replied.

"I'll let you know my rules and regulations but for now, you need to get to your room and get settled first," Anderson said.

“Also, you have to be on your best behavior, that’s the only way you can keep working here”. He added.

Just then a young lady in a maid attire passed by and Anderson called her,

"Yes Mr. Smith?" She responded.

"This is the new housekeeper. Show her to her room," Anderson said.

The maid nodded in understanding and asked me to come with her. I dragged my band behind me as I followed her. She took me to a room, not too big and not too small.

"This is your room. Dinner for home staff is served my 10 pm, breakfast is by 10 am after Mr. Smith leaves for work and lunch is by 2:00 p.m. Don't miss any meal cause if you do just forget about it. You won't be getting it back. You would have to wait until the next meal for the day," the maid said with a not so friendly tone.

"Thank you," I said, only because I wanted to act nice.

She did not even acknowledge my greeting but instead give me one nasty look and walked out of my room. Immediately she left, I settled down on my desk and began to sketch out my plans and I knew just the first thing to do. But I was going to give myself a few days in the house before I begin to execute my plans. The rest of that day, I wasn't disturbed by either Anderson or any of the home staff. They probably were giving me time to get used to my room and to the new environment.

Very early the following morning, I was up. As I walked out of my room, I saw only a few staff going about their businesses in the house. To find my way to Anderson's room, I asked someone and she gave me the directions. I grabbed some cleaning equipment and followed the direction that was given to me. When I got to the door that was described to me, I knocked on it and waited for response. When I got the response I wanted, I opened the door and walked in.

As I got in, I saw Anderson standing in front of his full-length mirror, getting dressed.

"Good morning, Mr. Smith," I greeted with a smile on my face.

He turned to look at me with a surprised look on his face. He probably wasn't expecting that I will be up this early to clean his room.

"An early bird, I like that. Keep this up and I promise you'll enjoy working here," he said.

"Thank you Mr. Smith," I said.

With that, he grabbed his phone from the table and walked out of the room. Immediately he was no longer in sight Seeing that my early appearance impressed him, I came up with a plan on how to get him to like me. From that day onward, I started waking up early to go and clean his room. Although he did not compliment my early appearance, I could tell that he was still very much impressed but I wasn't satisfied with that.

I began to think of new ways to get him to be comfortable around me. Then I had just the perfect plan. Over the period of weeks, I have been at Anderson's home, I got to find out some dirty little secrets about some of the other house staff. One time, I got to find out that the laundry person had been stealing money from Anderson's pockets every time he wants to do the laundry. I also got to find out that some of the other housekeepers were also involved in little cases of theft around the house.

In order to gain Anderson's trust, I began to reveal the dirty secrets of my colleagues to him one after the other. Whenever I told him about something terrible that someone had done in the house, he would be so grateful towards me and I knew I was close to achieving my purpose. Before I knew it, Anderson began to trust me with the little things. Sometimes, if he was in the study, he would call me and ask me to get something for him from his room.

Because I proved my loyalty to him by exposing some dirty secrets going on in the house, he became so comfortable around me and most times, would even engage me in conversations he normally wouldn't engage other staff of the house. I was happy because I knew that in no time, I'd be able to accomplish my mission here and leave this place.

One day I was in my bedroom when I heard a knock on my door. I asked whoever was on the other hand to come in and I saw it was one of the other housekeepers, Mary. She was one of the few people that were nice to me at the Anderson's mansion.

"Hi Laura, someone’s here to see you," Mary said to me.