CECILIA'S POV I've been playing maid in my own home for over three weeks now, with no end in sight. I was hoping to change his mind by reminding him of all I had done for him and of all the things I had risked for him. Ha! Men will only play nice to you whenever it suits them. This morning, I have been up for over thirty minutes now. I never thought the day would come that I would be up before sunrise. Even when I was at my father's house, sure, I wasn't really acknowledged, but no one dared disrespect me this way. It simply doesn't happen. They ignored me at most, but most of the time, I was in the good graces of the woman of the house, so they had no choice but to be nice to me. Even during the period I was waiting for Christopher to see through his divorce with Amelia, I still stayed

