The workday felt much longer than usual; it’s been a few days since I told Marlon I wanted to return to my duties, I wasn’t prepared for what that involved though. The other maids I worked around seemed to find me to be an even bigger threat to them than I had been when I first arrived. Beatrice has always been cold towards me, but the other maids have always tolerated me. Now, they treated me as though I was straight-up gutter trash.
They wanted nothing to do with me; whenever I came around, they would quickly stop speaking. I could tell they were talking about me. It was weird for them because I had Mateo with a mystery guy; they all assumed Mateo was Marlon’s because he was allowing me to keep him at the manor. Plus, a couple of the maids had seen Marlon holding Mateo.
Rumors were g
