Chapter 9: Jealousy (1)
"Annalise! Annalise! Have you heard!" Cara exclaimed as she ran to where Annalise was cleaning the windows. She had big news to share with Annalise right now. She could not hold it in and wait until they saw each other in an hour.
"Who hasn't heard you? What is the big news now?" Annalise dropped the rag into the bucket as she was finally finished. It would count as her exercise for the day. Mavis had failed miserably by trying to upset her with this task.
"The young master has told Mavis and Edwin to inform him of anyone who tries to stop the maids from complaining about his guests acting inappropriately with them. I heard Mavis was sweating when Rafael mentioned Connor troubling the maids. If only I could have witnessed it. I am glad something was said, but now Mavis will be hunting for whoever said something," Cara frowned.
Mavis would never stop until she found out who spoke to Rafael.
"Hey! It is a bit too coincidental that you were riled up about Connor, and now the young master is talking about it. Did you say something after all?" Cara found Annalise to be suspicious.
"That bastard approached me when no one was around and offered to take me somewhere I don't have to clean windows," Annalise said, picking up the bucket to take it outside to throw away the dirty water.
"I could have told him how that conversation would have gone," Cara muttered. Annalise made it quite clear that she had no intentions of sleeping with anyone. "If you aren't going to sleep with Rafael, you certainly are not going to sleep with Connor. What happened next? Did you go tell Rafael?"
"No, he came looking for Connor for some reason and saw when Connor was about to hit me. Surprisingly, he sent Connor away. I told him that I felt uncomfortable around Connor and wanted to get away since complaining is not an option. He worked on it quite fast," Annalise was somewhat impressed with Rafael making a move on it. She half expected him to let it go, but she judged him wrong.
It was quite obvious it had to be Mavis telling the girls not to mention anything, but Annalise had no proof of this, and none of the girls would want to speak up. Not even Cara.