I continued to stare at the list of tasks given to me just so I wouldn’t have to look at Aston’s expectant face. He’d got to be kidding me. I couldn’t do all these things. I read through the list, feeling my eyes grow bigger and bigger with every task that my brain registered. The man was dead set on f*****g around with me and I didn’t understand why. Was this why he had a difficult time keeping a maid around, because he mixed business with pleasure? His grandfather told me he always fired them, but maybe he was lying. Perhaps they left on their own to save their dignity.
“Yo-you can’t possibly expect—” he cut me off.
“I do.” He took a step forward and I instinctively took one back, colliding with the wall once again. “And you’re taking too long to get the job done.”
He wanted me to k
