Underrated Son-In-Law

Chapter 2:The in-laws

The maid crossed her hand and huffed.

"I've been knocking for hours. Did you die in your sleep and suddenly wake up?" She asked in anger.

That tone is not one that she should use on me as her madam's husband but since I am not paying her she doesn't care and would insult me as she pleases.

"What exactly do you want?" I asked her but the maid rolled her eyes at me.

Moments like this I wish her eyeball would not come back to the center of her eyes and see her reaction.

" Mr. Gabriel sent me to call you down for breakfast. Everyone is already at the table but I guess his Majesty is waiting to be called upon." The maid scoffed.

"Mr. Gabriel asked for me?" I asked with surprise evident in my voice.

I thought that my father in law didn't want anywhere near him. Why was he asking for my presence now?

Did something happen?

I have been careful to not do anything that would anger him but I guess one must slip up at some point.

Either way I can't refuse his call that would just cause an argument and he would give me a lecture and remind me that I was under his roof and I needed to adhere to his rules even though his rules were ridiculous sometimes.

"I'll be there in a minute so I need to wash up,I didn't take a bath last night." I informed her and her face frowned in disgust.

"It's not as if washing up would make you less hideous... yuke" The maid hissed at me and walked down the stairs as I closed back my door.

I knew it was best not to reply to silly remarks, it would just make her go and tell Mrs Gabriel gossips about me that weren't true. She had done it before and she won't stop now.

By saying that washing up won't make any less hideous she meant any less poor.

In their own definition being poor was as well as being ugly because I know for sure that I was handsome,not like the models but I was somewhere in between the line for fine and handsome.

I checked the time and it was already 8 am.

Oh no I won't hear the last of this.

I got refreshed in a jiffy and it was 8:39 when I dashed down the stairs to the dining room where Mr. Gabriel's family sat.

"Here comes the crown prince,he doesn't want to eat with us because he feels he is higher than us and eating with us would tint him." Logan jeered at me as he saw me walking into the dining room.

He needed to add more fire to already burning flames in my Father in laws heart as he glared daggers at me.

If only I woke up late on purpose I would have not been offended by his words but still I kept a neutral face and greeted Mr. Gabriel and his wife before trying to sit beside my wife.

"We are already done with breakfast so I don't see a need for you to sit down, you can eat with the maids in the kitchen because they were about to clear this place up." Gabriel said calmly and I held onto the handle of the chair feeling like a fool as he asked the maids to clear up the table.

"You should have woken up early and came down for breakfast first." Natalia my wife scolded as she got up from her chair.

"I was tired...I slept late, that's why I woke up late." I tried explaining.

"What sort of nonsense are you saying? you don't work so what were you doing late at night?" Gabriel asked furiously, making me press my lips together in a thin line.

"You are not ashamed that your wife does all the work and yet you have the mouth to say you are tired... where in goodness name did you find this man Natalia?"Mr. Gabriel asked angrily as he got up from his chair and walked off to the garage.

Natalia never came to my defense for once whenever I was insulted by her family even though she knew I was the one doing all the work.

She told me to look into company shares and knew it was keeping me awake at night but she won't say anything about it.

If only we slept together in the same room she would wake me up early but her Father decided that it was best we slept in different rooms so she could concentrate on work and not be distracted by me.

That was one of his ridiculous demands that I didn't want to accept but again when my wife isn't on my side what could I possibly do?

As Gabriel instructed we slept in different rooms even though I did the work that Natalia received the praise for ,Natalia did not say anything about it even when I objected to it.

I didn't mind because I guess she needed her space but I just got fed up with this sleeping arrangement at times.

How can a third party decide what I would do in my marriage?

When Natalia wanted to leave I told her I wanted to talk to her.

"I need to get to work so you can come over to the office and we can talk." Natalia told me ,hand me a couple of cash from her purse before rushing off to work.

I glanced at the bills in my hand and wondered what could be more important than Natalia listening to me. At this moment I had good news to tell her.

"The woman works and the man eats. I haven't seen such a thing in my life before… Do you want to go and ask her for more money in her office? Golddigger ."Logan scoffed as I stuffed the cash into my pocket.

If not because his family was rich I knew he would be one of these rif rafs pickpocketing people in the streets.

I chose to ignore my brother in law Logan; he was always out to get me from the start.

I walked into the kitchen where the maids cleared the dishes and I could feel them glaring at me.

I did nothing to them but they seemed offended by my presence.

"Here." Grace said to me, handing me over a plate of food with a small smile.

I took it.

"Thank you Grace." I smiled briefly at her.

Out of all the maids here she was the only one that was actually nice to me.

I think her parents taught her values and not to misplace your anger.

If Mr. Gabriel's family vented out their frustration and anger on the maids. The maids in turn vented it out on me as if I haven't had enough with Gabriel's family.

"Why give him food Grace? You don't have to be nice to a man that has no shame and doesn't want to struggle and work for the food he eats,he just wants to fatten up." One of the maids hissed.

" Mind your business and show him some respect ,he is Mrs. Natalia's husband so he deserves all the respect I give him besides Mr. Gabriel said he could eat here." Grace said in my defense as I ate.

I wasn't affected by most as they said anyway it wasn't my concern and it doesn't matter just words that you want to hurt you can actually do that.

I was already used to their words so I chose to ignore it.

After eating I thanked Grace and left the kitchen back to my room.

I needed to meet Natalia at her office.

After taking most of the things I needed and the information on the company that I found I headed off to her office.

I took a cab to the company because I wasn't allowed to drive any car,my Father in law's orders even though there were old ones that have not been used for a year that just parked in waste in the garage.

He said the cars were more important than my life and he didn't want my stinky body in it.

I bathed everyday so I don't know where the stench would come from.

Just two weeks ago his younger son Jasper who was in college wrecked a car worth $1 million dollars yet nothing was done to him. 

Getting into the company building I took the elevator up to the floor where Natalia's office was located and when I got to her office her secretary told me she was busy.

"What do you mean by she's busy? I came to meet my wife and you're telling me that she's busy." I said.

"When I say busy I mean busy she can't see you she is preoccupied with something more important." The secretary scrutinized me from head to toe.

I sighed deeply.

Her secretary can act like a pain in the behind sometimes.