Maye's Pov
I instantly got interested when he mentioned my father. What message was that? Was I free to go? I wanted to ask him but before I could ask him what the message was, one of his personal assistants came to stand at the table before him.
“What is it?” he asked and the man bent down to whisper something to him. “Now! Can’t you see I’m trying to… never mind.” He pushed everything away from him as he stood up with a start.
“Wait!” I yelled to my feet as the man looked at me with a raised brow. I was not ready for his violence. I looked at those strong arms which could snap mine like a twig. He could easily be done with me if he wanted.
He could grab me by the neck and make sure I never breathed again. That was something I had to be weary of. The man was dangerous enough to go after my father who was already a dangerous man.
He was crazy enough to kidnap me and have me sold in an auction just to buy me for that ridiculous amount and claim me to be his forever. At least, until my father found out where I was and tried to rescue me.
But either way, he had bought me just to keep me as his slave. I had to be careful with how I spoke to him and how I responded even when I was mad. Anything I said could and would be used against me when he would decide to kill me… if he decided to do that to me.
“Whatever you must want should wait,” he said with a deep and straight tone which showed he was not here for games. “I’ve got something to do.”
“But you said…”
“Hey!” he snapped, getting me to shudder where I stood. I was scared of him losing control. If he did so even for a second I would be gone. “Know your place!”
Those were his last words before he walked out of the dining hall leaving me standing in my stead. I don’t know how long I stood there but I knew it was long enough to hear him talk to the maids and guards before getting into his car which drove off immediately.
A few maids entered the room and dropped the buckets and mops in front of me with a sneer.
“You are to clean the entire house,” one of them said before leaving me with a giggle.
I picked up the mop and started working. While doing so, one of the guards entered and spat on the ground.
“If you have any beef with me, you should say it,” I grunted towards him as he walked to raise his hand, intending to slap me but stopped halfway.
“You are very lucky you belong to the master,” he sighed. “What I would have done to you now would have been terrible.”
“Oh please,” I scoffed. “You’d only be putting me out of my misery. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have work to do.”
I mopped around him before dragging the mop out of the room and into the bathroom.
There I locked the door and fell to the floor of the bathroom to cry. I was now a full blown slave. What was I going to do and get my freedom back? There was no way I could contact my father and no one would help me here. Everyone was against me.
They all served him. That monster of a man who would kidnap me just to get even with my father.
There had to be something I could do to get away and since he was not around I knew I could outsmart some of the guards.
Standing up with a new plan I decided that I was not going to give up on escaping. I had tried giving up and it had only landed me into deeper depression. I would not let that disturb me. I would try to get myself out of here.
It was clear I was alone and I had no one coming to save me. Even if I had, there was no way they would know that I was here. I had to find a way to get out of this place.
Inhaling deeply, I opened the door and slowly walked to the backyard with a fake smile on my face.
I found some of the maids standing there and talking which had me weaving in and around them to not be seen. When I was at the fence, I decided to touch it and scale the wall only to find someone staring at me from the side.
It was one of the security guards who stood with his hands on his waist while chewing a gum noisily.
It did not look like he was going to stop me but he stood there with a lazy look on his face.
It was disturbing to hear him chew his gum out loud without a care in the world.
“You’re not going to stop me?” I asked as he shook his head. I found this behavior strange. I looked around to see other guards walking around and when they saw me they looked away and moved on. They all seemed bothered that I was about to escape from the house.
“You should wear rubber gloves first,” he said, tossing a pair to me. “It should protect you from the electric fence.”
“Electric fence?” I asked looking at the wall to see tiny wires running through the walls. If I had touched it I would have been shocked to death.
No wonder none of the men were bothered. They did not care as they knew I would not get far with how shocked I would be after touching the wall.
The man walked towards me. “Escaping this place is a waste of time. Better get inside the house and wait for the master.”
With that as his closing words, he walked away from me.