RESTLESS

LEO'S POV
Immediately she left my room, my mind flashed back to the woman I had see her with earlier. I couldn't stay in my office so I decided to come back to my room, I was shocked in the state I met it. It was so irritating and I couldn't even step in, I heard noise coming from kitchen and it was getting louder now. I was sure I also heard Clara's voice, It seemed like Clara was begging someone or trying to explain to someone, and the person refused to listen, then I went to check what was going on. The woman was pushing Clara like she was an animal or a slave.
" Oh yeah, she is a maid but it is still different from being a slave" I thought when I realized what I had just said, I kept on staring at the door waiting for Clara to come back. " Why are you eager for her to come back Leo? The girl hates you, she even called you an annoying beast. Of course no one likes me anyways " I said aloud talking to myself as I placed my right hands on my lips massaged it softly. She was taking time to bring my food, truth it I wasn't even hungry but I needed Clara in my room. I was thankful to the Renata of a girl who made her my personal maid, it would have been difficult for me to do so myself. One hour had passed and Clara wasn't back, I took out her diary and continued reading from where I had stopped. After about an hour, I heard a knock. I quickly put the diary under my bed and gave permission to come in. It wasn't Clara, instead it was some other maids that brought in my food. Clara disobeyed my orders, my blood was beginning to boil and my nose flared in anger. " She dares to disobey? " I muttered inaudibly as my teeth were jammed together.
" Where is Clara? "I asked them immediately they were about to leave. They didn't reply until I shouted at them. One of them quickly told me she was in the kitchen and I let them leave. "You are in the kitchen and you dare disobey my order" I got up from my bed and went to dining table where my food had been placed. Clara was surely going to regret this action of her's. After eating, the maids came back to carry out the plates and Clara wasn't back yet, I demanded to know where she was again and I was told that she was still in the kitchen.
It was evening already and Clara wasn't back yet, I wondered if she didn't hear when I told her to come back. " Doesn't she know the duties of a personal maid? She ought to be informed by Renata." Different thoughts were running in my head as I kept on thinking about the reason why Clara wasn't in my room. " Oh shit, Leo. What the hell is wrong with you? Shit! " I hit my hand on my head in a very hard way, I was angry with myself. Why was I supposed to be thinking about Clara? I let out a sigh and lie on my bed, after few minutes I slept off.
The knock on my door forced me to wake up, for some seconds I thought I heard the knock in my sleep but when I heard it again, I knew it was in wasn't. " Why would someone disturb me, I haven't even slept for long. Seriously what is all this?" I said rubbing my eyes as my vision was blurry. " Just g!"
"It is Clara" I paused when I heard her voice, I was about to tell the person to go but I wasn't too sure about telling the person to go any longer . But I guess I should, after all what makes Clara different from others. " Sir, can I come in?" She asked, I could see the door knob shaking she probably was holding it waiting for me to say yes.
' Come in" I said sitting uprightly on my bed as I ran my hand through my hair incase it was scattered. Clara came in and I was shocked at the state I saw her in. Her eyes were red and swollen including her face was red. She was scratching her body while she walked towards me, I could even see her stagger while she walked. Her cloth was stained and her hair scattered. " What must have happened to her? " I thought, as I kept on staring at her.
" Sir, I came here to apologize for not bringing your food, I got hooked up with something " She turned to leave without waiting for my reply.
" With what? " I asked her but she stood where she was without responding, not even bothering to turn back. " I asked a question. Hooked up with what! " I shouted now. Seeing the state she was in had already angered me and the fact she didn't want to talk got me more angry.
"With just a little misunderstanding with the maids, no..nothing... much" I heard light sob coming from her while she was still scratching her body. I knew it was the woman I had seen her with this morning that is the cause of all this, but for what reason. Even after I spared her for pushing Clara like an animal.
" Stop there!" I said to Clara when I noticed she was about to leave again. I went to my wardrobe and put on my cloth before heading back to where Clara was standing. I grabbed her and walked towards the door, she had a shocking look on her face as she tried to free her hand but all her efforts were abortive. She began to cry, asking me to forgive her.
" Sir please, I'm sorry. None of this is my fault, I don't even know Why I got punished please don't punish me too" She was sobbing loudly, I paused and stared at her for some seconds, then I used my hands to wipe her tears but tears kept on rolling down her cheeks like a running tap. I wasn't good with comforting people so I allowed her to keep on crying. I held her hands while I walked down the stairs, different eyes kept on staring at us but I didn't mind. I brought out my phone and called my bodyguard, telling him to meet me in the kitchen with about three other guards. I walked straight to the kitchen and forcefully pushing the door with with my leg. The door opened widely hitting a maid that was standing close by but I didn't care, I stood at the door looking at the maids one after the other with my eyes narrowed. I was looking for the woman I saw with Clara this morning and I found her just immediately my guards entered. She was trying to hid behind the refrigerator.
" You, come out" I said, pointing to her. She looked round walking slowly to me. I saw fear in her eyes, she was at the verge of crying but she was preventing it from dropping. " What happened to her? " I asked her pointing at Clara.
' Sir, I don't "
"Don't lie to me, or else you will die! " I shouted at her. By now the tears she had be holding back were beginning to drop bit by bit.
"I and s..some other maids did sir" She stared at the floor while she talked, I instructed her point out the other maids involved and she did. I told them to come and stand beside her.
" Carlos, take this woman to the torture room, torture her until she wishes she was dead then kill her" I said to my guard moving to the first maid standing beside her. I saw Clara gasped with her mouth open, she tried to say something but I was already talking to the maid so I ignored her. " Clara, what did this maid do to you? " I asked her looking directly on her face.
" I'm not telling " She said like a child which was quite funny.
" Why? " I asked her..
" Because you are going to kill her" She said as fresh tears roll down her cheeks, my heart soften as I watched her cry. I drew her closer to me and promised her that I wasn't going to kill her and she told me what the maid did to her.
" You, wash some tomatoes and peppers and bring the water to me " I told a maid who wasn't involved in this mess. She did and brought the water to me, I gave the bowl of dirty water to Clara, giving her an order to pour it on the maid that poured the same type of water on her but she refused. I took the water and poured it myself. I poured it on the maid from her head to her toe and instructed her to clean the water clean the water on the floor immediately. I made sure I did to each of the maids the exact thing they had done to Clara before leaving with her. While we were leaving the kitchen my men began to drag the woman I had ask them to torture, she began to scream asking Clara for forgiveness. I later got to know that her name was ma'am Lauretta, I haven't heard of the name before neither have I seen her around.