"Yes," she replied, tears welling in her eyes. "They took me for a paternity test."
Alex listened to her silently.
"When we got older," Jane continued, as though she couldn't stop after starting to talk about the past," there were more and more things that they had to spend on. My parents' business was just not making ends meet, so they sold the flat in order to send my siblings to school, but not me. I had to follow them back to their homeland, and they sold me off to a fool for two millions! I was imprisoned for four whole years. Four years without so much as seeing the sun. D o you know why I'm this pale? It's not like I'm this way because I did a lot of skincare, it's because I lived i n the basement for four years without coming out at all. I cried, I shouted, but no one wanted to help because they think that we are legally married. Do you know how hopeless I felt? The fool died after that, but then that cripple brought me back to Kidon City. He gambled away all our money. That day when you saw me, I was beaten to the point where I was spitting blood simply because I refused to sleep with the person who tended him money."
By the time she was finished, her cheeks were already wet from the tears. She wiped them off and smiled at Alex. "I was about to graduate from high school at the time. I was doing very well academically, because I
wanted to make my parents happy like my siblings did, in hopes that they would love me a little bit more. I knew everything, including what I should and shouldn't do, I knew it all by heart. Instead of sleeping with other men like an escort to pay off my husband's debt, I would rather stay by the side of my savior. A day with my savior is a day well spent in happiness. The third Sheen girl would die happily even for a year of such happiness." 1
Alex had mixed feelings at what Jane was saying. He longed for her flexible body and how understanding and gentle she was, but he didn't want to force her into anything.
Jane, on the other hand, on;y smiled. "Let me stay by your side, good sir. I can do chores and keep you company at night. I can even massage your head, your neck and your legs." She paused before playfully adding, "I am a sexy maid that is multi-functioning."
'Sexy maid with multi-functions'? That reminded Alex of the ideal maid mentioned in one of the novels written by the famous author Puri, a maid that did chores in day and kept him company at night without clinging onto him.
"Are you willing to do that?" he asked.
She leaned over and whispered into his ear, "I will be a great friend with benefits!"
He looked at her calmly and said, "Stop referring to yourself as the third Sheen girl."
"Hm?" "You are as gentle as a river and came to me at the age of twenty-nine. Let's go with the name Jane from now on." 1
"It sounds great! I love it!" She smiled timidly at Alex." Thank you, hubby."
Alex scooped her up abruptly upon hearing her call him 'hubby' and took her to the bedroom, before tossing her onto the bed. Before he could do anything, she had already wrapped her arms around his neck and their lips found each other.
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