Chapter 60


    The new stairs werepletely built. They appeared more fashionable than the older ones. d and


    Mercie yed together as they ran up and down the stairs until they grew tired. The maids warned them


    that it was dangerous to y on the stairs, but as usual, they lived in their own little worlds that didn’t


    easily listen to others’ words.


    Meanwhile, Selena postponed her film dates because she had things to take care of at home.


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    She didn’t try to overthink and just stuck to ns that had always worked for her. And her main weapon


    was keeping Benjamin busy and frustrated. It was found on that very same day that Dorothy was


    suffering from severe pain in her feet because of skin cracking underfoot, especially at the toes as well


    as the heels. Doctor told her to get warm water treatment regrly. However, Dorothy made Benjamin


    wash her feet before letting her legs soak in warm water mixed with salt. After enough soaking, he had to


    massage her feet for at least ten minutes before applying cream at the end. He was told to do this every


    night before Dorothy went to sleep, at least for four weeks. It came to light that Nn at the same time


    had back issues. His back felt stiff every morning after he woke up. He couldn’t even bend forward or


    backward properly, so the doctor told him to get massaged every morning. And Benjamin was ordered to


    take care of Nn. His mornings got upied with massaging the old man for at least half-hour. Along


    with that, he had to listen to Nn’s disparagingments. Even though he was massaging


    professionally, Nn never appreciated Benjamin’s effort. Not even a little bit. Kathy had caught a severe


    cold, so Benjamin was told to oversee the breakfast cooking procedures. While overseeing wasn’t that


    hard, it was wasting a lot of his time. After breakfast, he had to hurry in order to drop the kids to school.


    And then he had his pizza-delivery job to take care of until evening. When he returned home as a tired


    man, the real nightmare started. Selena made him help with the homework of all four kids, which took


    him two to three hours, and it wasn’t even productive as the kids weren’t good at studies. After that he


    was allowed to bathe and eat dinner. And then he had to read novels for Selena before she went to bed.


    This was the past he refused to do. However, Selena made Reba tell him to do it. And he was forced


    to oblige. After reading her the books, he was told to water the nts because Oliver used to water them


    every night. He was told to fill Oliver’s shoes. The only good thing that came out of doing that was he


    found the book that Selena had thrown out the window.


    Nevertheless, by the time he returned to his room, at around eleven or sometimes even twelve at night,


    Reba would already be sleeping. He couldn’t even find time to talk to her because all the work in the


    house was being put on his shoulders. Dorothy even made him wash her toilet twice in one day. As if


    that wasn’t enough, the fat maid Delle had been behaving strangelytely. He thought she was the only


    maid with a decent gaze, but he began reconsidering that opinion. Laden with both bodily and mentally


    tiring works repeatedly, he didn’t even know how


    quickly a day passed. Before he knew it, an entire week had passed.


    In the whole of the past week, no one in the Sterling vi had done more work than Benjamin, and no


    one was paid less than him as well.


    The title Unpaid Maid truly fitted him these days, to all those watching and wondering while living in the


    vi. Delle eventually told Selena about Benjamin’s morning routine. “What? He yawns?” Selena red


    at Delle. “That’s all you gathered after all these days?” “Y-Yes, ma’am,” Delle’s mouth was turned down.


    “He goes to the rooftop every morning and yawns rather loudly and stretches his body. He walks along


    the parapet, scrutinizing the surroundings. He feeds birds, too. That’s all I could notice these days. Sorry


    for disappointing you. I won’t show my face to you anymore.” She didn’t say anything and began to walk


    away. “Wait, I never said I fired you,” Selena said, surprising Delle. “Does that mean… I can continue


    working here?” Delle’s heart beat faster as she awaited Selena’s response.


    “You can.”


    Delle teared up. “Thank you, ma’am. Thank you very much.” She lowered head and quickly left the room.


    Selena faintly smiled. She never wanted to fire Delle, but by saying she would if Delle failed, and by


    keeping her in job even after she failed, Delle would feel really grateful for the opportunity Selena had


    given. All Selena had to do was twist her words a little bit so that she would benefit from any situation the


    most. “He yawns, she said. What can I do with that useless information? Tsk, Veronica has been living at


    her girlfriend’s housetely. If she was here, I would have burdened him some more by making her give


    him absurd tasks.” After some thinking, she wondered, “Maybe I should tell Dorothy to tell her daughter


    toe back as soon as possible. Since Jacob is too busy toe home these days, I don’t think she’ll


    have a problem.” She knew exactly what type of woman Elizabeth was. If only Shawn were the head of


    the house, she would have raised hell and said she wouldn’t return until Jacob was gone from the vi.


    However, Jacob and Selena still controlled most of the things rted to the Sterlings. So Elizabeth had


    no other choice but to swallow her pride and return sooner orter.


    Though Selena didn’t like Elizabeth, the biggest problem she was currently facing was the problem of


    potentially losing her daughter to her son-inw whom she despised down to the bone. If only he hadn’t


    married her daughter, Selena would have been able to introduce her to a lot of rich suitors, but with


    Reba already marrying a pizza-delivery guy, she couldn’t go and introduce her to just about anybody


    as she and her daughter would beughed at. She could only go to her friend’s son, Edward.


    Selena who was already being burdened by her eldest daughter-inw felt further angered by the arrival


    of a son-inw she never sawing.


    Even if you wake her up in the middle of sleep, she could give a thousand reasons for her hatred toward


    him.


    And until now she supremely seeded in not letting Benjamin get adjusted to his new family, much less


    establish himself in this new environment.


    “Just wait, son-inw. I won’t wait for Edward or anybody to do the work. I will not only frustrate you, but


    will also let my daughterpletely overlook you. And that’s not the end of it. I’ll make your life so


    miserable, you’ll not even think of getting near my daughter ever


    again.”


    After having a coffee and reading a bit of a non-fiction book, she went to her mini gym room and looked


    at the garden through the ss wall and smiled. There was nobody there. Benjamin must be very busy


    massaging Nn’s back, she thought and ended upughing so hard and long she teared up.