Taken By The Mafia Lord

“The responsibilities of a cleaner include various upkeep, maintenance, and housekeeping tasks to ensure the cleanliness of a facility and smooth daily operations. Your duties may include dusting, vacuuming, furniture rearrangement, cleaning up spills, taking out the trash, and occasionally performing deep cleaning tasks like waxing or carpet shampooing....” The woman stopped upon seeing the figure at the entrance, and she said, chin lifted defiantly,”How nice of you to join us again, miss Arianna. ”

Arianna entered the room with her head lowered and didn’t say a word to the woman. The both of them got off on a bad foot, and she had unintentionally transferred her aggression to her. Perhaps, later, she would apologize. Just not now, there was a lot on her mind.

“So did you get the colder one?” Mimi intentionally reminded her of her outburst earlier on.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to -”

“Don’t worry, I get it. You’re stressed up, I’ll be the same if I was in your shoes,” She smiled at her and Arianna took her hand in hers and squeezed gratefully.

Mimi laid back in her seat and sighed deeply, “I always thought love triangles were quite cute and romantic, who knew it was this distressing and would happen to my best friend, instead of me,” She said wistfully.

Arianna looked at her immediately, “What? Why would you wish that upon yourself? Are you not satisfied with your relationship with Victor? Is there something going on that I don’t -”

“Ladies!” The woman cautioned them, they were interrupting her teaching.

.....

“Sorry,” Arianna apologized for the both of them, and the woman after giving them a long look, went back to her lessons.

“So it is important to know that when manually diluting cleaning chemicals, always add water to the bottle or bucket first, then add the chemical next. This minimizes the risk of the concentrated cleaning chemical splashing back at you....”

The tired Mimi turned to whisper to her friend, “There is a reason why I hated school?”

“Exactly,” Arianna groaned inwardly.

But the woman, oblivious to her student’s turmoil, went on with her lessons. Marcel had paid her handsomely to educate them on the job properly, she couldn’t leave any stone unturned.

“Never mix chlorine bleach with ammonia or acidic products, such as drain cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, or metal cleaners, because it will release toxic fumes strong enough to be fatal. Any leftover bleach can be flushed down the toilet or washed down a drain followed with plenty of water. Additionally, do not dump any household chemicals on the ground. Chemicals may flow into surface waters and eventually into groundwater sources where they can pollute drinking water.....”

The woman was still saying when Arianna heard chuckles coming in their direction. Normally, she wouldn’t give much attention to such careless chatter, however, that voice was unmistakably familiar and she could recognize it anywhere – even in her dreams. It was Marcel’s, and there was another female voice in the mix.

Hence, before Marcel and the mystery girl could step into the room, Arianna already had her eyes fixed on the door. So when Marcel finally stepped in, her gaze first connected with his before taking notice of the hands that secured his arm and the figure came into sight.

Arianna gasped softly when she saw that it was that girl from earlier. She couldn’t help but feel this sudden dread grip her heart. Who the hell was that young lady and why was she with Marcel? Arianna knew that it wasn’t his fiancée, she had already seen that one.

Moreover, they weren’t even this intimate, enough to grasp his side, nor was Marcel the type to let any woman get close to him. So who was this one? They looked too comfortable with each other? Perhaps, she’s a friend? Ex-girlfriend?

Why does she even care? Marcel could frolic as much as she wanted. It was none of her business.

Mimi must have noticed her discomfort because she turned and followed her line of sight. Her friend said, “Wow, she’s pretty. She and Marcel actually look cute together.”

Arianna didn’t forget how to breathe, rather, she couldn’t breathe. When Mimi said those words, it was as if someone plunged a knife into her heart and twisted it hard. It not only killed her, but in a torturous way.

Without even getting to know the young lady, Arianna decided at that moment that she didn’t like her. Her jaw flexed and she didn’t notice how white her fists had turned from clenching them too much.

Arianna looked at the girl and sneered, she wasn’t even that beautiful. The girl had blonde hair and baby blue eyes and was the epitome of the barbie doll. The only advantage she had over her was the fact that she was younger. Of course, Marcel liked them young.

No, it was actually stupid of her to have thought hard of his confession that morning. He likes her? Who was she kidding? She simply told him that she wanted them to be just friends and he got over her that easily? It was quite disappointing. Thankfully, she hadn’t made the mistake of agreeing to his confession. Marcel was not worth her anger.

“Arianna?!” Mimi whisper-yelled, slightly startling her.

“What?”

“Are you okay? You look like you’re ready to murder someone right now?” Mimi looked at her in concern.

But Arianna gave her a smile that didn’t touch her eyes, “Of course! Why wouldn’t I be fine,” She turned to look at their incoming guest.

They must be doing some sort of couple marching because it was taking them too long to reach them. Arianna noticed every single exchange between Marcel and the young woman, like when she stood on her toes to whisper something into his ears and he actually smiled.

That gesture made the furrow on Arianna’s brows deepen, were they kidding her right now. Their zealous teacher upon noticing Marcel’s presence stopped her lessons as well.

Marcel halted upon reaching them and then pulled Winters to his front, saying, “Everyone, let me introduce to you, this is Winters, a very good friend of mine.”

The young lady waved proudly, “Hi, I’m winter and it’s nice to meet you. I hope we have a nice time here together.”