The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Sherlyn said, “My sister’s name is—”

Francine suddenly caught a whiff of the excessive perfume on Sherlyn’s person and retched. When one of the maids saw that, she pushed Sherlyn out of the way and said, “Move aside! Our young miss doesn’t have the time to talk to you right now!”

“Young miss, are you okay?”

Francine had retched to the point of collapse, and she required the help of the maids before going in.

Sherlyn was incredibly annoyed that she was pushed aside before even getting her questions answered. Unfortunately, she did not dare to mess with whoever lived there.

The Holdens’ driver lowered the window and gave her a word of advice. “Be on your way now. You shouldn’t be poking your nose around a place like this.”

Sherlyn turned her head and asked, “Are you the driver of this family? Could you tell me who’s staying here?”

The driver replied cautiously, “I can’t disclose that information to you, but I heard that the family just recently recruited a new group of maids. Your sister might be one of them.”

‘Is Corinne here to be a maid?’ Sherlyn thought to herself. ‘Isn’t she an intern at Alpha Enterprises?’

Sherlyn wanted to ask further, but the driver had already driven the car into the garage. The entire situation was getting more confusing with each passing thought, so she called an old classmate who worked in Alpha Enterprises to find out what was up with Corinne. Through that conversation, she learned that Corinne had been fired.

‘Fired? Is that why Corinne is working as a maid in this household? All that talk about finding a house to rent was a lie! She just had to move here because she has to work twenty-four hours a day as a maid! That’s all she’s capable of, and that expensive suit jacket she wore home was probably stolen from the owner!’

Sherlyn was absolutely elated when she connected the dots, and she finally felt ready to go back home and inform her father of her discovery.

At the Holden manor’s second floor, Corinne leaned lazily by the floor-to-ceiling window and smirked as she watched Sherlyn leave with a pompous gait.

…

At noon the next day came, a graceful old lady was helped out of an extended Humvee and into the house. When Francine saw the old woman, she ran toward her and said, “Grandma! You’re here!”

“I had someone book the earliest flight today after I received your call.” Pamela Holden, grandmother to Francine and Jeremy, appeared to be heartbroken when she looked at her granddaughter. “Francine! It’s been a while since I last saw you, but you seemed to have lost a lot of weight.”

with me right after the marriage. I ended up vomiting so

hale and hearty old woman that she was,

new granddaughter-in-law of mine, and where she found

snuggled up to her while saying all sorts of sweet words. ‘Corinne’s going to get it today!

a while, Corinne was brought down by

Pamela looked at her from head to

Can I help you with

to be hospitalized. Do you think you can act like the woman

“Ma’am, I’m sure you’ve heard the saying ‘an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’. Miss Francine splashed a basin of stinking water on

look at her granddaughter. “Did that

shook her head. “Don’t listen to her lies, Grandma! There were a lot of servants at home yesterday, and they can all testify for

several of the maids to

miss has never provoked the

can vouch for it

“Me too!”

Corinne once more. “Do you have anything else to

she glared at

could cut it if all the maids

say. If you don’t believe

never taught you how to act like a proper person, so in that case, we’ll teach you! Somebody, get a copy of the Holdens’ house rules for her. Make sure to copy everything a hundred times. You’ll

and granddaughter

leaned smugly on Pamela and picked up a pastry from the coffee table. “You must be hungry after getting off the plane. How about some pastries for your

immediately tried stopping her. “Wait,

Corinne. My grandma can eat anything she wants.” She then

anything to stop them, the old lady had already taken a big bite of the pastry that

you start copying the house rules?

turned blue, and her eyes

“Grandma?

was wrong with the old woman, Corinne quickly

in disgust. “Scram! Don’t you lay a hand