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Martha stormed right in to her bedroom, reaching out for the bed, where she pummeled down and low on the mattress and breathed in exhaustion, bewildered and definitely consternated by the Serena’s audacious and deleterious words.
She couldn’t believe that even after all the love and respect that the Santiago name, put in its ordeals and gave to their house help, she still had to carry the label of being a slave maker.
She herself was the daughter of someone who once worked for Alejandro’s father and not even for once in her life was she ever made feel that she is the daughter of a regular employee to the family and thence, when Serena said those words, Martha couldn’t control her angst and burst out.
There was a little regret to what and how far she had ended up spitting the truth
