Florence.
I turned on the faucet in the kitchen sink before stepping back a bit, just so I wouldn't get any impromptu water splashes. Normally, I wouldn't mind but there was nothing bad in being careful, right?
*Lies* my subconscious screamed in my head. I wasn't being careful because I suddenly wanted to. I was doing it because I wanted to avoid trouble. Dominique's trouble.
After the whole dinner fiasco two days before, where the man of the house had simply flung dinner, dinner that I spent hours making, he went ahead to list the things I did that irked him. And like the maid that I was, why would I dare to do things that gave him the ick?
I pressed my eyes shut as Dominique's words replayed in my head. The faucet was still on, the rushing water making a fast rhythm that wa
