Before he reached her, he saw the document in her hand and remembered the last time he was asked to sign an agreement to terminate his employment.
He had an intuition that she was about to push for his signature again. His initial joy at her return was replaced by a complex mix of feelings. He was tempted to flee upstairs and hide in his room.
“Stop right there!” Lucinda said.
He froze.
Her tone sounded cold. He expected the worst.
Instead of turning around, Nathaniel gripped the banister and coughed.
“I feel dizzy. I’ll go lie down for a while.”
“What meaning should I deduce from your sick act?”
Standing at the door, Lucinda said, “Come here and sign it. I won’t repeat myself.”
Biting his thin lips, Nathaniel turned and looked into her eyes.
“I won’t sign, and I won’t repeat myself either!”
Holding the document so tight that it creased in her fist, Lucinda strode up to him and said seriously, “I don’t want to owe you a favor. You saved me, and I accepted your help. Your freedom is how I will repay you.”
She held the document toward him.
Instead of taking it, Nathaniel stared at the document. It was another agreement to terminate his employment. Her cold insistence broke his heart.
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Without any expression on her face, Lucinda continued, “This is the last command you will receive as my servant. I expect you to obey.”
That was a clear command.
Lucinda was leaving no room for negotiation.
Was this really what she wanted? To make a clean break with Nathaniel? Was there really nothing he could do to change her mind?
He couldn’t believe that she wanted them to become strangers with the history.
Nathaniel gulped nervously and his eyes slowly filled with tears that threatened to pour down.
The violence and cruelty that used to fill his eyes before were long gone.
ALL he felt now was a continuous sharp pain in his heart.
He looked so vulnerable, and Lucinda could see it.
However, she didn’t give a damn about how he felt. She pushed the document towards him indifferently.