The Billionaire's Bluff (The Complete Romance Series) (An Alpha Billionaire Romance) by Nella Tyler

Author:Nella Tyler [Tyler, Nella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

The Benning Estate was located in one of the nicer sections of North Raleigh; it was an old, stone and wood construction that bespoke money. It wasn't too terribly ostentatious, a unique combination of traditional Southern-style construction with stonework more reminiscent of the North. It made me wonder who had designed it. A sweeping driveway led the way to the front stone steps and porch through tall loblolly and longleaf pines. The wood and stone house was graced with no less than four gables, modernized of course in copper-colored and pleated metal. The front of the house was all stonework in varying shades of tan, gray, and sand-colored rock and stone. Four-paned windows graced numerous rooms in the front, the upper stories with narrower five to six paned windows.

The landscaping was exquisite, with a carefully groomed lawn, areas of carefully tended shrubbery, bark and small river stones for groundcover. A wrought iron fence surrounded the entire property, disappearing into the woods behind the house. While smaller than my own parent’s mansion, the home of Luke Benning certainly would've cost well into the millions. Still, it had a homey, cozy feel to it. I wondered how many rooms it had, but figured that I would find out soon enough.

Today was my first day on the job. I hadn’t met Luke Benning, but I had imagined him to be a gracious, middle-aged man with impeccable taste. Everyone in this neighborhood had impeccable taste. I wasn't embarrassed or at all self-conscious that I had a job as a maid for a billionaire because as far as I was concerned, work experience was work experience.

I wanted to do something different, something that pushed me out of my comfort zone and would perhaps help me discover who I was, what I needed to do with my life, and how I wanted to do it. I didn't have any intention of being a maid forever, but I did have an interest in exploring every aspect of the world that opened up to me. Of course, I had grown up around maids, and my family treated many of them like members of the family. I had known some of them since I was a little girl.

I had never considered them “the help,” but rather people who came and went and helped my parents maintain the home and the property. I had grown up with nannies, as well, and respected everyone that worked for my parents, right down to the gardeners. If it weren’t for them, chances are that I would've been pushing the lawnmower around the lawn myself. Not that I would have minded because I wasn't afraid to get my hands dirty or engage in physical exertion, but I know that in this part of the South, if you were rich, you didn't do those kind of things.

I made a face. We lived in the 21st Century, for crying out loud. It amazed me how stubbornly some Southerners stuck to the old ways, the old traditions, and even more old-fashioned expectations.

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