Maid for the Billionaire by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Abby Knox. LLC
Published: 2020-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

When I arrive home, kick off my heels and spring up to my room, however, everything seems off.

My stacks of books are no longer where I left them. They’ve been put away on a bookshelf that I don’t recall being there before. And I don’t even care where it came from because there is a deeper matter at hand at the moment.

“You moved the journals,” I say, my voice trembling, not even knowing where Luke is or if he is within earshot.

Soon enough I feel his presence behind me. I’m staring at the floor by the wall of the guest room, at an empty space where my mother’s journals used to be. I have to work hard to remind myself that I gave him complete permission to do exactly what he did. So why am I getting emotional?

Dammit, that tremble. I hate it that I start to well up when I’m feeling some kind of way. I can’t bring myself to turn around.

“I did,” he says. “I needed to vacuum and I needed to get everything off the floor, so I used an old bookcase in the garage that wasn’t being used. It’s all organized by date—”

“Wait a minute,” I say, my stomach starting to kick like a mule. I spin around. “You looked inside them?”

He shakes his head. “No. The dates are on the outside. I just put them in order. Look, I’m sorry…”

I don’t reply but I brush past him to go to the office where the rest of my parents’ things were.

“Where are the newspapers, and the notebooks?” I ask, looking around and seeing nothing where it should be. Yet also feeling a creeping sense of relief, combined with guilt over feeling said relief.

“I took the liberty of organizing everything…”

I turn to him, my eyes surely looking crazy even though I try to keep my voice calm. I don’t understand what’s happening to me.

“The library.”

Five minutes ago I was aroused with the anticipation of seeing Luke again. Now I’m mad as a wet hornet. Not mad at Luke, but mostly mad at myself for giving him free rein just because I woke up in a good mood and was surprised and excited to see him. And mad at myself for the teeny, tiny sense that it’s probably for my own good that all my parents’ clutter is out of sight.

I storm down to the library. Luke follows me but says nothing. Does not plead for me to fix my attitude, nor does he remind me that I agreed to this.

Damn him for not judging my out-of-control reaction to change.

Entering the library, everything looks different. All the furniture is in its place, just moved slightly. But I knew if I had to look for something I lost, it would take ages. My methodical madness was gone.

“I knew it would be changed, but I wasn’t prepared for it,” I say.

“Stella, I should have gone slower with it, to get you used to everything. But I just started and I couldn’t stop.

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