When a drunken night out leads to Rose Delacour meeting the mysterious American Mafia Boss, Clecentine Huxley, she can't help but give in to her beauty and charms.
Young and carefree Rose Delacour didn't expect her night out at the bar to result in...
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I walked through the corridor of the mansion, skipping joyfully with the AirPods in my ear blasting off my favourite songs.
Walter came rushing to me from my left seeming a little out of breath. ''Miss Rose, madam wants to see you in her office now.''
I wondered what could be so important that she needed me so urgently. I removed the AirPods and turned off the song and Bluetooth before hurrying my way towards her. I walked into the office to see her head snap up to meet mine and the colour from her face drain slightly.
My gaze turned to a woman of around my age standing a few feet away from Clecentine, holding a pen between her tapering fingers, a paper in front of her.
I was quick to catch on to what was happening and Clecentine was quick to know that I realised it. The nervous expression on Clecentine's face, the paper in front of the woman which looked like a document ready to be signed, presumably a contract just like mine almost a year ago.
Clecentine got up from her chair slowly and fixed her suit, ''Rose, I want you to meet Ella. She-"
"Will be your new escort. You're replacing me. I know.'' I finished for her in a neutral tone.
She winced and tried to explain, ''I'm not trying to replace you or anything-"
"But that's exactly what you'll be doing.'' Ella wondered, a confused look on her face.
''Don't interrupt me when I'm talking.'' Clecentine seethed, glaring at her with fury in her eyes. Sometimes I would forget that Clecentine is actually a very dangerous woman and can snap a person's head in a second if she wanted to.
She took a calming breath and softened her gaze when she looked at me again, ''Rose, I won't make her my new escort if you don't allow it. The decision is in your hands.''
Ella looked at Clecentine as if her entire life was destroyed in mere seconds right in front of her eyes. And maybe it could be if I refused to let her be Clecentine's new escort. I decided not to be immature and thought of it from a different angle. I maybe feel possessive and jealous but she could be in the same position as I was months ago. Maybe she needed money desperately just like me. I wasn't gonna let my possessiveness come in the way of it.
''I have no problem with it. Make her your new escort. Our time is coming to an end anyway. Only a few days left till one year ends Clecentine.''
The words hit my guts like a motherfucking bitch and it probably had the same effect on Clecentine too because her eyes widened in panic and she almost stumbled back in her seat. We knew one year was ending but to actually say it out loud and realise its extent was a different thing.
''Ella, sign the contract and leave immediately. I need to talk to Rose. Be quick.'' Clecentine commanded, with desperate urgency in her voice.
Ella signed the contract with shaky hands and stumbled her way out of the office, closing the door behind us.
