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“Can you believe she had the audacity to show her face?” I heard one of the women whisper when I got back upstairs. Following their gaze, I saw two women staring at Irene
as she spoke with Ben.
“No, why? What happened?” another one whispered.
“Well, three years ago she fell for this total fraud. She kept showing him off, some hotshot Wall Street broker. Turns out she knew he was a fraud, but he was blackmailing her. She was a total junkie, and he said he was going to expose her. She convinced so many people to trust him with their money while all the time knowing they’d have losses. She selfishly just wanted to save herself. It was a huge scandal. She only avoided jail time because she’s part of the Stark family. Instead she exiled herself to France. Who knows what kind of trouble she got in there. It must have been horrible if she’s back here groveling for attention again. Hopefully she does her aunt a favor and goes somewhere.”
I didn’t want to hear any more. Grabbing two full glasses off the serving tray, I took a couple of steps back before bumping into the women and spilling the wine all over their
dresses.
“Oh my god!” I gasped out
“Have you lost your mind!” Little Miss Gossip screamed at me with her hand in the air.
“I’m so, so sorry!”
“You haven’t even begun to be-”
“Ladies.” Ben came up beside me. “I apologize for this, please, let the maids assist you in cleaning up. I promise I’ll personally reimburse you both.”
“It’s all right, Mr. Stark.” They tried to be cute and I wanted to roll my eyes. However, when their glares shifted onto me again, I pretended to feel terrible.
“I’m so sorry,” I repeated again as they left. Good fucking riddance.
Ben turned to me, eyebrow raised. “I saw you spill the drinks on them on purpose.”
“I have no idea what you are talking about.” I shrugged.
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“Thank you.” The corners of his lips turned up and he looked, for the first time, really cute. “And I’m sorry for earlier.”
“I must have been gone longer than I realized for you to develop a whole new personality.”
“I swear you just enjoy aggravating me.”
“Just a little bit.”
“You do know tomorrow I’ll just make sure you have a shit load of things to clean,” he replied.
“I quit. Remember?” I was done with their penthouse.
He shook head. “Didn’t you hear me? You don’t make the rules. You are the worker bee. I told your boss I wanted you as my maid. If not, then I was done with her service. She’s going to pressure you to come, because like I said, everyone is self–servicing. I bet she’ll even threaten to fire you if you don’t show up.”
“You asshole! Why are you tormenting me?” I groaned.
“Simple. You’ve seen things, and I’d rather not deal with another maid. So I expect to see you bright and early, Ms. Lannister, or I’ll come and get you myself.”
“I hate you-
“Bernard.” At that moment, a woman stepped forward wearing an asymmetrical black dress. Her black hair was slicked back and her blue eyes were openly staring at me. I knew she was his mother, the infamous Elspeth Yates, and she was gorgeous.
“Mother,” Ben said, standing straighter, if possible, and also tenser. “You look beautiful as always.”
“Thank you dear. Are you going to introduce me to your friend-”
“Fiancée,” he corrected, and I looked around praying there was another woman beside
him. Nope, just me.
The fucking asshole. Had he not heard a word I’d just said to him?
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“Actually ma’am, I rejected him. Cerci Lannister. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you. Your home is stunning.” I reached out to take her hand and she stared at me in confusion.
“You rejected my son? Why?” she asked, not shaking my hand.
“He’s a conceited, narcissistic asshole.” I dropped my hand. “And on that note, I’ll excuse myself.”
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