Episode 1

Chapter 1

In a mansion, known to be own by a rich old bald man, he goes by the name Robert Bill, who has lots of building and companies, his mansion alone is crowded with a minimum of 30 female maids and 10 cooks, and lots of security guards, unfortunately he lost his wife when she was just 45, his current age is 60, the old man only has a son as his heir, his son Mark, an handsome blonde guy, who’s just in his late twenties, Mark also had access to very few assets of his father, Mark has only one person that will forever stay in his heart, he loves no other girl aside Melody.

Melody happens to be his assigned maid, although when he saw her he didn’t spare her any glance, she’s just a handmaid anyway so no need to spear such peasant a look, but when he was trying to get something from his library stand when he was on the ladder used to get books high up, he slipped and when he heard her beautiful and tiny voice, he couldn’t help but look at her and for the first time, he saw such beautiful and flawless skin and such big and cute green eyes he has never seen, she looked like a cute innocent child in an adult body.

“sir? Are you okay?” she asked very quietly

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Melody has spent 3 years serving Mr. Robert Bill , well mostly his son, yes serving him that didn’t only mean through cooking his meals, tidying his usual spots and everything a maid is to do to her boss, but melody has also been madly in love with Mark and so is he, he’s actually more fond of her, actually obsessed, everyone knew that wherever you saw Melody, Mark is somewhere around he also made sure she had no friendly relationship with the male workers there, you can say he’s quite overprotective and so in love.

Mark is on his way to his room, he just asked where Melody was and he was told by other maid that she’s cleaning his room. When he entered his room he saw Melody cleaning his room, she turned to the door when she heard the door opened then she smiled when she saw him, he locked the door and smirked at her.

“hey baby” he said as he wrapped his arm around her waist and placed his face in the crook of her neck and sniffed her delicious scent that never fails to drive him crazy.

“hi, are you okay” she said as she leans on his manly chest

“yeah, just dad adding to my workload, he needs more kids, so as to help him make a proper life and school for them, he sure holds mom’s last words high” mark smiles in her neck

“yes, and I bet you know that he loves your mom so much that he chooses to help stray kids have a good life, I really hold Mr. Robert in high places” melody said smiling

“MR. Robert? Oh you hold me high ehn” mark teased as his big hand rubbed into her maid shirt, she squealed as she felt his hand under her bra inside her shirt. Marks moved his hand backward and started to unhook her bra then they were interrupted by the knock on the door, Mark choose to ignore it but then the knock came again, he knew who would dare knock twice, it was his father’s personal butler, he cursed him under his breath and received a glare and knock on his head by Melody.

“you have to go, c’mon I’ll see you tomorrow, my work hour is done” Melody said as she gave him a kiss and left to open the door then smiled and bowed slightly to the butler and left, Mark had no other choice than to follow the butler to his father’s office, when he got there his father was seating on his usual study chair behind the table that is filed with documents.

“son, I need more kids, your mother won’t be happy if we’re slowing tings down, I want her to be happy that I helped her carry out what she wanted me to do after her death, and I’ll keep helping her till my last breath” Bill said

“I understand father, I’m also doing the best that can, I’ve searched for street kids and brought than, but don’t worry father, I’ll search for more kids, I want mom to also be happy wherever she is” Mark said with a sad smile.

His mother was a very down to earth woman, although she was rich but she was never a proud one, she was always there for those in need, she cared for them, she even had an orphanage home she visits every week and if she’s free and available, she’ll stay there till night, both of us, I made friends with a lot of kids then, but everyone has different fate in life.

But the truth that no one knows is that, Bill isn’t just taking children to help them and cater for them, but he’s into child trafficking, he brings in the kids and get paid, the higher the amount of children he brings in? the higher his pay. Roberts enterprise has been reducing in shares holding and stocks, the company is clearly collapsing almost near bankruptcy, bill doesn’t want his whole hard work to go to waste so he took the easy route, bribe.

He couldn’t afford to see all that he has worked so hard for just go down the drain, so he had to get his hands dirty and started taking children, claiming he was helping them but in truth he was actually selling them, what happens to those kids afterwards is not his business.

All of his dirty deeds, his son has no idea of.

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Melody was on her way home, then she stopped at a store that makes fast food, she brought some hot bread and a nice orange juice and a little size cake and some few snacks for kids, she walked further down the road and there she was, a little girl around her 6 years, wearing a torn and shabby long top that looked like a gown on her.

She has such small figure, she looked frail and has such pale skin, she looks sick but barely hanging. The little girl looked up slowly out of hunger and her eyes widen in joy and she stood up with little strength and ran towards melody happily, she hugged her waist and looked up at her.

“you came” she chimed smiling and looking up at her still hugging her waist.

“off course I did, I can’t leave you here” melody smiled.

Melody sat with the little girl on the floor by the side of a shabby house, that’s where the little girl sleeps, she lays there and wait for melody, some nights she goes to sleep hungry because melody has night shifts sometimes, so she sometimes has to sleep over at Roberts but still her mind is always uneasy, some she goes bruised, some people gets mad at her for begging for food or trying to steal an apple just to eat as her first meal of the day.

Her name is Sia, Sia happens to be a little stray kid that has no parents nor relatives to take her in, Sia lost her parents in an accident a year ago, then she was referred to an orphanage, but then she escaped, she cries herself to sleep every night, begging her parents to come back to her, having nightmares continuously, she was traumatized at such young age, the only person she could run to and call a friend was the twenty-three years old melody.

“how was work today aunty?” sia asked happily as they were both seated on the floor

“oh work was good, thanks for asking” melody smiled, then she noticed the little girl suddenly looked sad

“are you okay?” melody asked getting worried and fetching out the foods she bought for her

“you shouldn’t be seating on the floor; it’s going to stain your cloth aunty” the little girl chimed sadly.

“huh, oh no, I’m okay if you’re okay, anyways you must be hungry, sorry I came late, here you go” melody said as she stretches forth the nylon containing the foods she bought for her “c’mon now, you need strength so eat” melody said and gave her a cute smile.

“thank you” sia muttered and checked what was in the nylon, almost immediately she smiled happily “fresh bread” she said happily “thank you” she said in a singsong way “can I eat it now?” she asked melody

“off course it’s yours anyway” melody said as she pats and hair and watch her eat the bread greedily and happily, smiling and munching the foods given to her

‘sometimes I wish I can have her by my side to watch and take care of’ melody thought to herself still smiling at sia who is busy eating and eagerly staring at other food in the nylon, mostly the cake.

The reason why melody can’t keep sia with her is not because of her night shifts, but because currently melody is not living alone but with a roommate and her roommate is known to be rude and harsh, she doesn’t even like kids so she can’t imagine what will happen if she leaves sia in her care.  While melody was still watching sia eat, a thought strikes her, ‘what if I allow Mr. Robert take care of her, he can further her education, cater for her, cover for her wellbeing till she’s older.’

Then melody made up her mind to ask mark for help, if his father was willing to take care of sia also.

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