Devil's Snare by Sruthionyx (top 100 books to read .txt) 📕

“Who are you?” asked the man in an angry voice. Before she could say anything, Silas rushed in and said, “this is the babysitter for my nephew Capo, I thought Capo Rafael already informed everyone”, he said voicing his concern.

“Ahh!! I see so you are the babysitter”, said Victor in a tone that didn’t make Alzea happy. It felt like he was shaming her for taking that job. Alzea was new to the life of elites, so she was angry at the tone, but kept her composure.

There were two women sitting next to Victor. One woman who sat closer to Victor seemed impassive to anything that was happening there. The other woman eyed Alzea curiously. She eyed Alzea from top to bottom with a distaste but masked it as soon as she heard footsteps. She turned her head to look at the owner of those footsteps and she was shocked as if she saw a ghost. “Holy smokes, it’s Rafael Cavallo, the guy from the party and the google page, if that’s Rafael, this must be his brother Victor”, she thought remembering her conversation with Blake a few days ago.

Rafael looked at her but diverted his gaze immediately as if he hated her existence. Alzea was shocked again, “Don’t rich people see commoners as normal human beings?” she thought but decided to ignore remembering she is here for a job.

Rafael then looked at Sadie and asked, “what are you doing here Sadie?

Sadie was happy to see him. “I am here to have breakfast Rafa, Uncle Vittorio asked me to see you and papa wanted me to take care of your needs”, she said watching Rafael with googly eyes. Rafael paid no attention to her and started to get on with his breakfast.

Alzea took the kid and put him in his seat and Rafael motioned Silas to sit with them. Sadie got up in anger, “Rafa do our workers have to eat with us?” she questioned. Rafael tightened his hold on his fork but decided not to engage with her.

“He is not a worker Sadie, Silas is family”, Victor tried to convince her. “Whatever”, she said sitting back in her chair.

“Hey, you”, Sadie called Alzea., “what is your name?” she asked eyeing her.

“Who me?” asked Alzea unsure of whom Sadie was referring to.

“Yes, you, what is your name?” asked Sadie trying to talk her down further. Victor knows how elites treat workers; they hated the lower class; it is not new in their household. According to them, everyone in the working classes lacked class and poise.

“Um!! It’s Alzea Galanis”, she said trying to sound normal, but her insides were shaking, she hated interactions with people who think they are better than other people. Money can’t buy personality and kindness she thought.

“Try to dress a little better from tomorrow, we have class here, even our maids dress better than you do”, Alzea was shell shocked by her blatant tone, nobody ever talked to her in that tone before. Tears started to fall out of her eyes, but no she wouldn’t show people her weakness. She had no idea why Sadie hated her and why she was being rude to her. Silas had no idea how to react to this, he felt bad for the poor girl., it’s not like he can go against his boss’s wife, he is answerable to her as well.

“And what’s with that long hair, it looks ugly, hair should only be up to shoulders, anything below that is very unattractive”, continued Sadie. Alzea sat there silently doing her job as she has never been publicly humiliated before.

While Victor was chuckling amusingly at the drama unfolding, Rafael’s grip on the fork tightened to a point that it started to bend.

Just as when Sadie was about to speak further, Rafael banged his fist on the table, looked at her, and said “I like to have silent breakfast Sadie, I hate to talk while eating and I don’t like this drama. I asked Silas to move in and he is my guest as much as he is my employee, and his people are our guests too. He is like family, and I will not tolerate this behavior towards them, you don’t live here, you don’t get to make rules, I do. You dare say another word, I will kick your sorry ass out”, he said in his calm yet warning-like tone. Sadie’s eyes watered at that tone, but she decided not to talk further. Everyone fell silent at his voice.

Rafael was fuming when he entered his study. He wanted to snap Sadie’s neck, but that would raise doubts, so he looked for other reasons to warn her. “Fuck, why was I getting angry when she was insulting Sia? Why did I feel like this?” he didn’t know what this feeling was, but he was happy that his Sia was in his mansion, right where he wanted. “Oh!! I can’t wait to have more fun with you baby girl”, he amusingly looked at her picture on the file.

Somewhere in a mansion:

A young woman was seen calling a person. “Hello!” The person on the other side of the call answered.

“She is here”, said the young woman.

“What do you mean “here?” asked the woman on the other side of the call

“She was in the Cavallo mansion today”, said the younger woman with distaste and anger in her voice.

“Hmm!! I will see what I can do about it, but did she recognize you? did she know who you were?” asked the woman on the other side of the call.

“No! she had no clue, we kept tabs on her, but she never did. I don’t think there is a single chance that she will know who I am. And she did not even know who I am, let alone who I was in the past. It happened 15 years ago, and we both haven’t seen each other since then, I don’t think she will ever know who I was”, the young woman relieved.