Maid in Tennessee

Chapter 18

Luke's POV
I had been so busy today and it was now 11pm. I text Katie to see how her day was as I hadn't heard from her since this morning.
LB>KR: Hey baby, sorry for contacting you so late, today has been hectic. How was your day with Mama and Kris, hope you had a great time, Kris is so nice xx
Twenty minutes past and still no reply, so I tried calling her and it went straight to voicemail. So I left her a message,
"Hey baby you must be sleeping and your phone is out of battery, call me when you get up, love you"
I went straight to bed and fell asleep but in the back of my mind I couldn't help but think something was wrong.

Katie

I got home about 4pm, I still hadn't heard from Luke, in fact I didn't know what I was going to say to him after the situation at Lunch with Kris, after all she is his niece and he thinks the world of her. Jacob text and asked if I wanted to hang out tonight but I told him that I had things I needed to catch up on and that I was going to have a bath and head to bed early. I ran the bath and poured in some relaxing bubble bath, hopefully it will take away the feeling of sadness going through me right now. Everyone has been so supportive of me and Luke and not once has anyone referred to me as the maid, or thinking I was some sort of gold digger. I really should talk to Luke and tell him what happened but I would only get hysterical and that would stress him out with him being in New York 'n all. By the time I got out the bath and into my pjs it was past 7, so I just set the house alarm and cuddled up in bed hugging one of Luke's shirts and put on a movie. I needed to charge my phone but it should be ok, hopefully Luke will call before it dies on me.

The light filtered through the blinds and slowly opened my eyes, I couldn't even remember falling asleep. I reached for my phone and seen that the battery was dead, shit Luke will
Be worried. I plugged it in and a text message came through from Luke and then a voicemail. I called him straight away, I missed him. I looked at the clock it was gone 9 so he should be available to speak.
*ring ring, ring ring*
"Hey baby" he answered
"Hey" I tried to sound upbeat, but he picked up on my sadness.
"What's up, you sound upset?"
I tried to brush it off,
"Nothing I'm just tired that's all"
"Katie, in not stupid what's wrong"
I couldn't keep lying to him,
"Kris hates me" is all I could get out before I started sobbing.
"Baby what do you mean Kris hates you"
"She (sob) said (sob) I saw (sob) you as (sob) a meal (sob) ticket" I was crying like a baby.
"She said what, was mama with you, what did she said, baby you mean the world to me, she has now right to say that to you, I am beyond furious"
I managed to control my breathing so I could have a conversation with Luke,
"Yeah your mama was with me, she was furious at Kris, she told her that was no was to speak to anyone" I could hear him huffing,
"What else did she say"
"I called Le Claire mama like she told me to and Kris said that she was to be referred to as Mrs Bryan by the maid"
I heard Luke punch something,
"Baby I am due home in the morning, I am going to have severe words with Kris and I want you to come with me when I do, will you do that please."
"Ok baby"
"Now I want you to call Mama and have her come round without Kris and tell her that I know and I will deal with her when I arrive back home"
"Ok baby love you and I can't wait to see you tomorrow"