CHAPTER 29

“Fine, just send her this way. I can’t go inside while I look this way,” she said and the maid left.
Who was her guest really, she wondered? Few minutes later the maid returned followed by a woman who was in her thirties she guessed.
“You may leave now and bring her something to drink,” she instructed the maid.
“Greetings your royal highness,” the woman said as she bowed down to the ground. She was getting used to this and she just couldn’t stop it at all.
“Please be at ease and rise,” she said and the woman did rise up.
“I’m sorry to barge here like this but I need your help,” she said.
“What kind of help do you need from me?” she asked, she didn’t want to pry for herself. She just wanted a free day without courting anyone’s troubles.
“My names are Gina Hartley and I’m a widow. My husband recently died of an illness and I don’t have any children. When my husband died, my-in-laws chased me out of the house claiming that I was the one who made my husband to die.
I really loved my husband and I would never do anything to harm to him. I couldn’t give him children but he still loved me and never abandoned me. So why would I do that?”
“So, what exactly would you want me to do for you?” she was curious to hear her answer.
“I don’t have anywhere to go except to come here and let you be the judge of my grievances but at the same time I don’t want to face my in laws. They never liked me from the beginning and I’m too scared to go back there.
Can you please hire me? I can do anything for you, take care of the garden for you, please!” the woman was now on her knees begging.
At first, she didn’t want to pry but she had met people who were so good at pretending but now no one would escape from her. So, she looked deep into her and saw her fears and hope. She really was wronged but there was also no point of making matters worse by confronting the in-laws. She was much better without them.
“Get up, I will help you,” she said to her.
The maid came in with a glass of orange juice and handed it over to Gina.
“Take Ms. Gina here into the guest room, let her wash up, change into some fresh clothes, give her food and send her back here after that,” Talia gave an order.
“Thank you, Your Highness,” Gina said with tears rolling down her cheeks.
“No need for tears now,” she said and looked at the maid, “now!”
The maid and Gina left the green house and she resumed with her watering. Her birthday was nearing and she wasn’t feeling well at all. She hated hospitals a lot, what she would see while she was there wasn’t something she admired.
Neal was busy with exams at the moment, the semester was about to come to an end so she didn’t want to disturb him at all. She would take care of everything and make sure he is calm when he returns from school.
After all she couldn’t look into anything that concerns him, the cons of being in love with her husband. Ever since Chloe touched her beads, she got a good insight of what her husband liked and hated.
She used her hand and made life very easy for herself. Neal wasn’t a talker so he kept most to himself and now she understood all the times he could ignore her and just be quiet.
She was a troublemaker, something she was slowly changing for the past two weeks. Her husband had been different ever since she dealt with Mercy. She knew what she did was cruel but they could never understand what Mercy would have done if she hadn’t stop her and did all that she did.
Mercy wasn’t someone who could give up that easily. She was someone who was patient enough that she would prefer to take her revenge even after five decades when everyone had forgotten about her.
Neal using the exams as his shield, he had managed to slip away from her easily. He could come back late saying he was studying, come to bed late again, leave early in the morning and he no longer kiss her like he used to.
It was bad but she understood well, he was never in love with her from the beginning. Even when she told him about her love on his birthday, he didn’t even reply her. It really hurts but there was no turning back. She would just drown herself in work and see where it takes her.
As long he doesn’t cheat on her with another then she was content but if someone else comes into the picture then she was going to make life very miserable for that person since she couldn’t harm her husband.
She was halfway when Gina returned to the greenhouse. She looked nice in those fresh clothes.
“I can see you have taken care of yourself,” Talia said with a smile.
“Thank you for your grace.”
“It’s my duty to help my people. Like I said I will give you a job. I saw that you are good at gardening.”
“Yes, I am. I used to own a garden before.”
“That’s good then. I don’t trust anyone with my flowers, which is why time after time I water and look after them myself. So, from now on you will be in charge of taking care of the garden, if the work gets hard for you, there is a caretaker who is responsible for maintaining the mansion he will give you a hand.”
“Thank you very much, I will do my best and make sure nothing happens to them.”