Jane played with her fingers and asked shyly, "M--Ma'am... I want to work here..."
"..." The owner paused for a moment, before glancing a t her in contempt, "You? Which cave did you climb out of? Can you even read?"
Jane smiled. "What are you talking about, ma'am? It... It's not like I'm that old, how... How could I possibly not know how to read?"
The owner scanned her up and down, before saying," What can you do?"
"I... I can do anything. I don't mind the dirty and exhausting work," Jane responded hurriedly.
"Well, you definitely can't work as a waitress, considering what you are wearing. You look hideous."
A cheerful and relaxed smile appeared on Jane's face, as she was getting the feeling that there was hope. "I never thought of being the waitress, ma'am. I was just thinking that I could maybe wash your dishes or throw out your trash for you."
Dish-washing? Throwing trash? Alex was completely dumbfounded at what he was hearing. His driver Andrew felt chills down his spine just looking at his master's reaction.
"Tell me how much you want, then?" the owner asked.
"How... How much can you offer me?" "We pay our dishwasher eight hundred a month. But... " The owner scanned her over again, before grinning sarcastically. "You...are pregnant, aren't you?"
Jane had wanted to cover up her belly to hide the fact that she was pregnant. She smiled awkwardly at the woman's question and said, "Y--yes... I'm pregnant, which is why I need a job more than ever. Otherwise, I ... I won't be able to raise my child once I give birth to i t. Please have mercy, ma'am; please let me work here. I ... I might be pregnant, but I can handle any hard work. I'm even stronger than women who are not pregnant. I f you don't believe me, you can give me a trial, just a trial. I... I don't need to be paid for that."
Jane was scared of not being accepted. It had been a week since she started looking for a job in this city, but she was rejected even when she wanted to work a s a cleaner for public washrooms. She could not just not work for the food on their table. She could not watch as Noah worked alone to support his mother and her, not to mention for her child in the future. She simply could not. Noah and his mother never let him d o a single chore back at home and spoiled her as best a s they could, so she could not be ungrateful. Jane looked at the owner, doe-eyed.
The owner turned around and shouted toward the back of the restaurant. "Sammy, bring the bucket of dirty water out and have her dump it out. I need to test her out. We don't need spoiled princesses here!"
Knowing that she had a chance, Jane agreed joyfully," Test me all you want. I won't charge you if I fail."
A teenage boy that looked no older than eighteen years old stepped out with a bucket of dirty water out hurriedly. Jane's eyes widened in shock as the bucket of water looked to weigh at least thirty kilograms. She gritted her teeth and told herself that she had to pick i t up and dump the water out. She had to be able to pick it up.
She took a deep breath to anchor herself before gathering up her strength to her arms. She picked the bucket of dirty water up with both of her hands.
Everyone, including the owner, the teenage boy, Alex, and Andrew were rendered speechless. Alex could not take it any longer and opened the car door abruptly.
Just before he was about to get out of the car, he heard the owner shouting, "Stop, pregnant lady!"
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