Chapter 41. Another Nightmare

MICHELLE

“Thank you for the offer… but I am so sorry, Sir, I just can’t accept it…” I looked up at the face of the elderly man and shook my head. I could tell he was truly rather old just by looking at the wrinkles on his face, yet everything about the way he carried himself and dressed screamed wealth. He was without a doubt a very rich elderly man.

I was still having trouble believing that he was proposing to hire me to work for him, just to make coffee for him every day. Even if he were to offer me three times my current salary, I simply would not be able to quit my job here.

“Care to tell me why you don’t want to accept it?” He asked with a puzzled expression on his face and a furrowed brow. It’s possible that he didn’t understand why an ordinary worker like me wouldn’t want to take his offer.

“I can’t… I just can’t leave Mrs. Wales—my boss…” those were the words that came out of my mouth. “She has been so kind to me and has treated me as if I were a memb