“Matilda Williams ,” the woman sitting opposite Matilda across the long mahogany table, called her name, a small smile on her slightly wrinkled face.“We are pleased to inform you that you have been hired.”Matilda 's heart sank in deep relief and she let out an exhale that she didn't know that she had been holding in for a while now. She rubbed her sweaty palms together and mirrored the woman as she rose up from her seat.“Congratulations.” The woman offered Matilda a handshake that she accepted.Although she never doubted herself for a second, it still felt like a dream to her that she had just gotten hired to work in the country's most luxurious hotel. Even though she never applied to work here because of the status of the company, to her, a win was still a win.“Thank you,” Matilda reciprocated the woman’s smile. “I am so honored to be given this opportunity. I promise, you won't regret this.”“You will be starting tomorrow, Miss. Williams ,” the woman fed Matilda more

When Leonard arrived at the slated restaurant, it was already minutes late and he hated the cold weather, which had propelled him to use a leather jacket. He looked around the whole place and found Ella seated at the edge, with the menu card in her hands."I was beginning to think that you wouldn't make it Vincent." Ella said, the moment Leonard arrives at the seat."Let's go straight to the point." Leonard demanded, but a hand gesture from Ella ordering him to stop, would force him to hold his horses."How about we act like civil humans and order meals and eat....think of it more like a date." Ella stated."I am not here for any stupid date. I came here with a note of warning to you. That stunt you pulled back there at my house yesterday, I don't want it to repeat itself." Leonard warned.Ella rolled her eyes and leaned back to the chair, staring at Leonard unfazed by any of his threat. "It pains me each time I realize that the only wrong I have ever done against you is simply loving

Leonard was surprised by how horrified she looked. It was clear that whatever was going on in her mind regarding Ella , must have brought her terrible traumas."I just need big information regarding her whereabouts. I need to understand that she is okay." Leonard lied through his teeth. He noticed the woman looking everywhere and then leaned forward to his side, apparently with the intent to tell him something. "Ella was a crazy girl. When we discovered anomaly with her, we had to transfer her to the hospital, where she was given a therapist to stay with." Leonard froze for a second. All thoughts about Ella flying through the course of his head.It was no wonder she acted strange. He thought to himself."Can I know where this therapist lives?" Leonard asked and almost immediately, the woman pulled her phone out and looked through the contact and handed it over to him."That's her number." She revealed and Leonard copied the contact on his phone, thanked the woman and left the buildi

Though he employed a new important staff without her acknowledgement, she wasn't going to just sack him. What were the other staff going to think of her?The company wasn't her private life where she would behave anyhow.But why on earth does it have to be the stranger she met in the elevator.Trying, her day was cursed.Everything gave her a headache.Matilda looked up at Leonard with disgust. Their first meeting wasn't okay and sacking him might give up the wrong message. And if he tells everyone what she had done, social media won't haste."Can I have your papers?" Matilda requested but Leonard 's frown has become his new mask."I hope you know, all documents are being submitted so, they should be on your desk." Leonard said angrily. " What is your name?" Matilda asked as she flipped through some documents.Even Roxie wanted to act because she didn't understand why her friend was being harsh to the new staff. She wondered but only kept staring suspiciously.Matilda on the

When Matilda finally collapsed onto a bed after her meeting in the throne room, she couldn’t fall asleep, despite the exhaustion in every inch of her body. After being roughly bathed by brutish servants, the wounds on her back throbbed and her face felt like it had been scrubbed to the bone. Shifting to lie on her side to ease the pain in her dressed and bound back, she ran her hand down the mattress, and blinked at the freeness of movement. Before she’d gotten into the bath, Benjamin had removed her shackles. She’d felt everything—the reverberations of the key turning in the lock of her irons, then again as they loosened and fell to the floor. She could still feel the ghost chains hovering just above her skin. Looking up at the ceiling, she rotated her raw, burning joints and gave a sigh of contentment.But it was too strange to lie on a mattress, to have silk caress her skin and a pillow cradle her cheek. She had forgotten what food other than soggy oats and hard bread tasted like,