Chapter Fifteen
Under other circumstances in the unusual household where he laboured in such a menial and humble way, William – “Willie” – Overbury would have counted it as a blessing that his owners had decided to call in outside caterers and waiting staff for their informal gathering of local dignitaries and the movers and shakers of the Bangalore business community.
Not being forced to act the role of flunky in front of others – no matter they would be strangers unaware of the true nature of his service to the Prakash family – was a huge relief.
Or at least it would have been.
Had, that is, he not been left under the upstairs supervision of the stepbrother and sister he hated equally as much as he hated and detested their elder stepbrother and the American woman who had once been hi
