His Maid

Chapter 6

It's been two weeks since that night with Damien, he and Miss Louise have gotten a lot closer, well lets just say that I can hear them all the way from my room. Me on the other hand, I feel terrible, I have been throwing up in the morning, I can't eat certain things I used to eat, like poultry and tuna, I have had the strongest craving for popcorn and corned beef. I don't know what it is. But May, Tyler and Mary-Jane have noticed the change. My breasts are really tender as well, so maybe I'm due for my monthly but I'm not sure, I am a week and a half late so it could be that. 

I heard a knock on the door behind me and I put the cloth and polish down on the table in the guest room. I turned around to see Mary-Jane and the girls standing there with a bag from the pharmacy. 

"What's wrong? Why have you gone to the pharmacy? Are one of you sick?" I threw the questions at them not giving them a chance to answer.

"Marley calm down." Tyler came over to me and hugged me. "We know that you haven't been well these past couple of weeks, so we went out and got you some medication."

"Oh." Mary-Jane came over and handed me the bag, "Thank you." I opened the bag and saw what was in there. "Erm, this isn't medication." I held up the box.

"Yes it is dear. I know what you and Mr Clark did the other week, I'm not stupid. This is medication to see if I am right about what I think is wrong with you." I threw my hands up in the air in a mock of defeat and sighed.

"Fine, I'll take it but I promise you, I am not pregnant." I turned and went into the guest bathroom. I threw the box onto the counter and sighed while I opened it, I pulled down my underwear, sat on the toilet and took the tests out of the box. Once I was finished I pulled the tests away from underneath me and put them onto the counter. I pulled up my underwear, flushed the toilet and left the room. 

"Now we just have to wait two minutes to find out that I am not pregnant." I told them. 

"Okay fine, if you are right we will apologise, but if you are... what are you going to do?" May asked. The question knocked all of the air out of my lungs and left me rasping for any air I could get.

"Uh, I- I don't- I don't really," I cleared my throat to try to clear the raspiness from my voice, "I don't really know." 

"Will you tell him?" Tyler questioned with a raise of her brow.

"I mean, I guess. He is the father, I have no right to keep that information from him."

"Well you do, you can just give him a letter of resignation and leave, never to return."

"I wouldn't be able to look after it, I'll have no money, you know that he gives the wages monthly and he doesn't really pay that much, I'm a woman with not a lot of money and I'll have nowhere to go."

"Surely you would be able to get a job wherever you move to."

"No I won't. Who would want to hire a woman that will just go onto maternity leave about eight months later." It went silent for the next couple minutes and then I heard a beep. "What was that?"

"When you said that we have to wait two minutes I put on a timer. So you can check it now." I turned around and went to the bathroom.

"Time for you guys to see that I am-" I looked at the stick, "Pregnant."

****

I lifted my hand up to the door and knocked on it. I heard a faint, "Come in" and I twisted the door handle and entered the room. I looked over at his muscular build searching the filing cabinet. "What do you want?" He asked without turning to me.

"I need to talk to you, Sir." He instantly stopped searching at the sound of my voice and he turned around to meet my eyes. My breath was instantly taken away from me, his eyes were red and he looked pale.

"What do you want?" 

"I wanted to tell you something."

"Well get on with it."

"What's stuck up your arse?"

"That is no way to speak to your boss."

"I don't give a damn. What's wrong with you?"

"Louise left me. And it's all your fault."

"How is it my fault?"

"Because she found out I slept with you."

"You didn't love her anyway."

"No I didn't, but do you know what she told me?"

"No, Sir, I don't."

"She heard a conversation between you and the other maids." My heart dropped.

"Erm, what- what conversation was that?"

"About that thing you are carrying." I knew it.

"I was just coming to tell you about it."

"It's not mine."

"What do you mean it's not yours? I've only ever slept with you, you bastard!" I yelled.

"Well you're lying and you're fired. Pack you things and go, I want you gone within the hour." He sat down in his chair and started writing down something. 

"I have nowhere to go, and I have no money." He looked up at me and sighed.

"Does it look like I care, Miss Lea?" My lip quivered and tears started to rim my eyes.

"You are a bastard and I hope you burn in hell."

"Trust me when I say there is no room in hell for someone like me. I am even worse than Lucifer himself."

"You're not wrong there."

"Gone within the hour Miss Lea." I let out a small sob and something flashed across his face but was gone as quick as it got there. "Well what are you still doing here? Leave." 

"Don't expect me to return and forgive you when you realise what you have done."

"Oh trust me, I won't. Goodbye Miss Lea." I turned around and walked out of the room with a slam of the door.

Fucking Bastard.