Chapter 2 A STRANGE LADY FROM NOWHERE

Ella turned in her bed in anticipation, how was she going to sneak into the Carter's mansion? She has never met Jeff before nor does she know where he lives. How would she manage to find his house or even sneak in? She kept thinking about this and slowly slept off.

The next morning, She was waken by a bowl of cold water which Linda deliberately poured on her. Ella immediately stood up with her eyes wide open.

" YOU....what are you doing ?" She shouted, glaring at Linda.

Linda scoffed inwardly, still sleeping when you have work to do? Kiss my ass!

"Go and get your job done!", what are you still doing here !" Linda said coldly, her hands folded underneath her bosom.

Ella clenched her fist in anger, she wanted to hit Linda so badly but remembering why she was in this mess now, she held herself back.

Before she could even do anything, Linda called the bodyguards in "Throw her out of this house" she ordered like she was the chairlady of the house.

Ella was dumbfounded, what ?! She glared at Linda wanting to resist but the bodyguards already grabbed her two hands she tried to wriggle out of their grasp but they were so strong and managed to throw her out of the house.

Ella stood in front of her father's mansion, her eyes stinging with tears. She looked at her dress and footwear. She wasn't even allowed to change her nightwear let alone have her bath. She was supposed to be walking around looking for someone looking like this? She looked at the mansion one last time and let out a painful smile. Her father didn't even care to pity her, he just let Linda do whatever she wanted. Well, at least he was kind enough to let her have her phone and some cash.

She swallowed her pain and immediately searched for Jeff Carter's mansion on the web. Many locations popped up on her screen making her confused. How was she supposed to know his real location? She smacked her head in anger and immediately hailed a cab. No matter what, she had to find his house if not she would be sent back to that....place. She didn't want to return there, not to the orphanage.

She kept moving from one place to another looking for Jeff Carter's house and the ones she found were not the Jeff Carter she was looking for. She sighed deeply, it would have been easier if she knew this Jeff Carter. She had never met him for once and it was even more difficult finding his house. She only recognize his brother from the news and according to that they don't even live together.

Finally arriving at another location she guessed right. she heaved a sigh of relief and gave her last money to the cab driver. She hoped that this would be her last stop because she didn't have any other money.

She turned and immediately saw a very beautiful mansion standing elegantly. She glanced around and to her surprise, every other house paled in comparison to it. She wakes towards the mansion admiring it . Even though it stood behind a gate, it was still visible to her.

Her mind switched from the beauty of the mansion to her current situation. She was here finally but how could she manage to sneak in? Should she just walk in there and ask to be a maid? She scoffed at her thoughts, who would even let her in ?!

What about she just walks in and tells Jeff that she wants to poison him and force him to agree with her?

Thinking of this, she hit her head, now she knew how stupid she was. For a mansion like this, there should be a lot of bodyguards, if she went in there, she would be found even before she did anything.

Meanwhile, Logan stepped out of the mansion, he was hurrying because he had somewhere important to be in. He discovered something and needed to make sure it was true before reporting it to Jeff.

The Carter's old man made a call on the day he died and he finally saw the person the chairman had come in contact with that day. He got into the black Mercedes Benz and immediately the gate was opened for him to drive out.

" Shit !" He cursed as he saw the young lady standing in front of the gate. He immediately honked at her.

Ella, who was lost in thought, heard the horn and immediately, she got afraid and lost consciousness.

Logan was shocked and immediately walked out of his car. He immediately picked her up from the ground and placed her in his car.

He drove off to the hospital occasionally glancing at her. Many thoughts flew through his mind, who was she? What was she doing standing in front of the gate?

He got to the hospital and he took her in, the doctors immediately attended to him and took Ella into the ward for treatment.

Logan waited till the doctors went to examine Ella. He was given the bills and he immediately cleared it.

One of the doctors walked up to him, " she is fine, she suffered from minor shock, I believe she is fine now" he said to Logan.

Logan nodded, he did the needful and wanted to proceed to where they had last seen the person he was going to meet his mind drifting to it because he didn't want to lose the man when he had finally found him.

He decided to see Ella one last time to make sure she was okay before he would leave.

After seeing that she was okay, he turned to leave but a soft and delicate hand flew to his shirt holding him back.

He was surprised and immediately turned, only to be met with wide-eyed Ella. She was wide awake with no sign of sleepiness.

" What ?!" He exclaimed with surprise.

" Please, I want to be a maid in The Carter's mansion, I barely managed to get here, please let me work as a maid," she said and burst into hot tears.

Logan looked at his watch in anticipation he was already an hour late but this girl was holding him down and making things even worse for him.

Ella held his hand tighter, not wanting to let him go or caring about his surprised expression.

" I am a very poor woman, I don't know what else to do, please help a poor woman, give me work to do, please, please" Ella added and started crying more.

Logan was stiff, he didn't know what to say or what to do. He just stood there in shock watching her shout and cry. Making her a maid is not the problem but the girl in front of him looks more prestigious than someone willing to be a maid.

Logan examined her closely "Maybe she might have lost her way and got to the mansion thinking it's her own house or maybe she is mentally ill he thought in his mind.

"Work as a maid!" Why ?!!! He inquired raising his eyebrows.

I need money to feed myself my parent died of anger Ella lied through her teeth still shedding tears profusely.

"Why are you lying!?" Logan asked curving his lips with a smile.

Ella raised her head at once glimpsing into his eyes in confusion. "What if he knew who I was!?" Ella asked herself as panic surged through her.