SAVING ANGEL

CHAPTER 14

GILDA'S POV

"What are you here for? What's that in your hands?" He asked me.

I became dumb; no words were coming out of my mouth. I stood there like I had not heard his question.

He raised his eyebrows at me.

" I came to do your leg massage. I was asked to do it by one of the maids." I finally found my voice.

" I don't remember asking you to do such, none of the maids do my leg massage, besides, it is done at the hospital," he said calmly.

Why were the maids trying so hard to ridicule me? Why were they trying to make me appear bad?

" I am sorry, I didn't know that," I said.

" You can go ahead, you are already here," he said.

I don't even know how to do this, yet I can not turn back right now.

I kept the bowl on the ground and knelt beside his wheelchair. I took his right leg and rolled up his trousers to the knee, just like the way the maid said it.

" What are you doing?" He held my hands.

I felt my temperature rising. Did he just touch me?

" I'm sorry," I whispered.

" Are you trying to touch me inappropriately? You know what, just go," he said.

I took myself out of his room with the bowl, the towel and the balm. I was so ashamed of myself.

I got to the kitchen and dropped them there.

" You shouldn't have done that. You knew what you did, and it is not fair," I said to the maid.

" Why not? No one asked you to come stay in this house. I do not know why you slept with Seth Williams just to have this Job and get me out of the way," Jane jumped in.

She stood in my face. I knew it; she sent the other silly maid to do this to me.

" Careful of the things you say, you might have to prove it," I said to her.

" I do not care, as long as you are in this house, things are going to be hard for you. Do not expect to stay here for a long time," she said.

I watched as she walked away, and the other maids joined her in giggling; it was so much pleasure for them.

I sighed. This was insane. Why won't they leave me alone?

I turned and saw Eve; she was alone. I went to her.

" I know you are aware of all the things being done to me in this place, you know all about it, why can't you say something?" I was almost crying.

My heart was heavy, and the tears seemed to hang in my throat.

" Nothing, why did you ask?" She looked at me.

She was trying to play it safe, and it was annoying right now.

" You know what I am talking about; you are older than all of them. You can talk to them; let them stop making this place unbearable for me."

" They haven't done that, you should stay out of their way, it would do you a lot of good," she said.

Something was wrong with her, why can't she speak up? Why can't she say something? Why was she being so quiet and acting like she did not see what they were doing to me?

" I'll mind my own business," I whispered.

" You should," she whispered back to me.

I sat there, thinking about my life, wondering why Vera had not called yet. Aren't they worried about my whereabouts?

I began to hear sounds coming from the door; it was Japheth coming out of his room.

I tried to hide my face, but it was too late; he had already seen me.

He waited by the door, I do not know why.

After a while of him being there, a car pulled in. Angel came out of the car and got inside the house. She ran to her father and fell on him.

Her writing pad was in her hands, and she wrote that she missed him so much on it.

Her eyes fell on me, and she ran to me. I didn't know how to receive her; I was so confused.

She showed me her pad, and the same message was written on it.

" Should Angel not stay away from Gilda? She is not fit to handle your daughter, Mr. Japheth," Jane said.

" Let me be the one to decide that. You are not the one to tell me what to do in my house," he fired back at her.

He didn't even appear mad at him. I thought I was going to get fired when Angel came back home. I thought I was going to be asked to stay away from his daughter.

" I miss you too," I said to Angel.

She smiled so much, everyone could see how happy she was to be with me.

" Take her to her room," Japheth said.

I held her hands and took her upstairs. We got to her room and I could not help but feel sorry for her health.

" I didn't do that to you, I won't hurt you. I won't do that to you. I feel so bad that something like that happened to you," I said.

She took her pad and wrote things down.

" You do not think I did that?" I asked her.

She nodded her head.

" You think I am a good person?" I asked her.

She nodded her head again.

I'm sure she must have told her father that I didn't do it, which is why he did not kick me out of his house.

" I am so happy that you believe I didn't do that to you," I said.

She wrote something else down.

" Sure, I will stay here with you, as long as your daddy does not throw me out, you and I are going to stay here and be together," I said.

The door opened, and there she was.

" Jane, what are you doing here?" I called out.