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This woman was no other than Macy who was with her signature poker face and climbed up the stairs powerfully like a model who owned the stage and the audience because Mimi was having a serious case of inferiority complex.
“Wow, how can someone look so perfect?” Mimi wondered, watching Macy’s graceful and regnant movement with awe. So she decided to imitate Macy.
Mimi considered her posture and aimed to make her shoulders and back as straight as possible as she let her arms dangle by her sides for balance. While maintaining Macy’s long and even strides, she stifled the laughter that threatened to leave her lips. The scene was so comical. God, she couldn’t hold it in.
Macy was walking straightfaced when she sensed something was wrong. The girl’s movement had changed and she could no longer sight her from her peripheral view as if she was hiding behind her back.
So Macy suddenly stopped and turned without warning only to catch frozen laughter on her face and she arched her brow at her.
Oh shit, she almost caught her, Mimi’s heart was pounding in her throat. The woman suddenly looked scary. However, even with her emotionless face, Mimi still bravely asked, “Is anything the matter, miss….?” She tactically asked for her name.
“Nothing,” Macy said and that made her – Mimi – lips quirk.
So the miss with the resting bitch face doesn’t want them to be friends, she thought. Well then, so be it. Rhea would be her one and only friend – if only she can figure out where that stupid girl took off to.
According to her uncle, Rhea and his wife had an altercation again, which wasn’t surprising – it’s an everyday drama – only that she ran off this time.
Although Mimi found it suspicious at first thinking that her uncle’s family might have killed her and framed it on her running away, her idiotic friend, Rhea, called her two days from a line she couldn’t trace back and demanded she shouldn’t search for her and that she was fine.
Honestly, It hurt her, didn’t they agree to go through the good and the bad times together? Did their friendship mean so little to her? Remembering Rhea made Mimi angry so she shifted the thought out of her head and focused on the mission ahead – working for Lukas.
She watched as Macy made a sharp turn and climbed the stairs leading to the second floor, she was unable to hold her curiosity anymore.
“Geez, what does he do with so many rooms?”
“None of your business and don’t worry, you won’t need to warm his bed,” There was deep hostility in her tone when she said that.
Mimi gasped in disbelief, why was that woman so salty? So irritated was Mimi by her attitude that she muttered under her breath, “Hopefully you’re not his girlfriend else Lukas is in so much trouble,”
And Macy halted in her tracks because she heard that. She turned to Mimi with a murderous expression that made the girl go a step lower, however, Macy walked with a purposeful stride and stood before her till there was barely space between them.
Macy leaned closer till they were staring eyeball to eyeball, “It’s Sir Lukas for you and if you want to last here, I suggest you watch your mouth. Do you understand?”
The warning was clear to Mimi, “Yes, ma’am,”
“Good,” Macy straightened her back and resumed walking as if nothing happened.
Mimi took a deep breath, there was trouble in paradise already. She knew from now on that she would have to avoid that salty woman.
Thankfully, nothing else happened between them until they reached the living room where Lukas was already seated and waiting for her.
“Mimi,” Lukas stood up as soon as his gaze landed on her. He took her into a hug that made Mimi pretty conscious because that woman was staring at them.
“Hi sir Lukas,” Mimi said, awkwardly pulling out of his embrace. It wasn’t even her first day and she was already walking on hot coals, it seems she’d have to decline this job. However, the thought of her boss back at the Cafe blasting her head off made her reconsider the thought.
“Come on, have a seat,” Lukas said, gesturing her to one of the expensive couches. Wow, does this man’s breath produce money as well?
But Mimi didn’t think much because that salty woman returned with refreshments. When did she even leave in the first place? However, that was not her concern but the issue at hand of the refreshment. There was no way she was drinking whatever it is that salty woman served. What if she poisoned hers?
Macy served them refreshments and stood at the corner with the tray in front of her when Lukas said, “It’s alright Macy, you can leave now,”
“What?” She was surprised. She was not going to be part of this conversation?
“Give us some privacy,”
Macy was stunned, Lukas didn’t want her around in this meeting? But she was always with him, what was so different now?
“Yes, sir,” She bowed nonetheless knowing Lukas doesn’t do so well with disobedience.
So Macy left with an angry expression. Lukas was beginning to change and she didn’t like it one bit.. She felt uncomfortable as if someone was about to take her place. And who the hell was that sassy bitch?
Mimi was finally able to breathe after Macy left. She wondered if Lukas knew he had a tigress by his side and how are they even able to work together?
“I’m glad that you are here,” Lukas started the conversation, rousing her from her thoughts.
“It’s not like I exactly had a choice,” She blurted out the words before she could stop them. But that was the truth anyway, her boss had not even bothered to ask for her opinion when he sold off her services to him.
Lukas laughed, “I like you, you’re amusing,”
“Thank you?” Mimi said, feeling a bit awkward because she remembered Macy’s bitchy word about being a bed warmer. As handsome and rich as Lukas might be, if he tries any funny business with her without her permission, she’d bash him in the head.
“So here are the papers,” Lukas lifted them from off the couch where he was sitting and placed them on the glass table positioned in the middle.
“You’d work exclusively for me but it’s your choice to serve others. Although it would work best for me if you lived here -“
“Live here?!” Mimi shouted, an accusing gaze in her eyes. Could it be that Lukas was hitting on her and this was an attempt to bring her closer to him so he could make her fall for him just like they do in those romance novels? But then, she was sure he was hitting on Rhea that day. Was he a womanizer? Is that why Macy was hostile to her? Did she see her as a competition?
“It’s not a compulsory condition – just a suggestion,” Lukas said with emphasis having recognized her misunderstanding, “It’s just that I have erratic working hours and might need a drink in the dead of the night. But don’t worry, I believe that’s asking too much,”
“I’ll have to think over it,” Mimi could only say. She was not going to lie, the idea of living in this house was quite tempting.
“It’s alright,” Lukas said, taking a sip of the drink as she went over the contract.
Mimi went through the contract and it was quite good, especially the working hours. She had almost little to nothing to do here compared to the hours she spent standing at the café. It just bothered her how she was going to tackle Lukas’s irregular working hours. Would she have to make trips here even in the middle of the night? Well, just like he said, they would figure that one out later. However, when she came to the remuneration part, her jaw almost dropped.
“Holy mother of God, you’d pay me this much? I’m not even a Professional barista!” Mimi couldn’t believe it. She felt like this ignorant rich man was just wasting his money on her. Perhaps, he had more than enough to throw away.
“You’re worth more than enough,” Lukas assured her, “Besides, you’d get professional training,”
“Professional training?”
“Yes?”
“Why would you get a novice barista and hire professionals to teach her? Why don’t you hire a professional instead? You have enough money to do so anyway.” It seemed too good to be real. What kind of buy one, get one program was this? Even her former boss wouldn’t do this.