His Personal Maid ✔

CHAPTER 61- SHOWER HARASSMENT

Josey added, "Your lovely mother instructed Tess," she threw a scornful glance at Mrs. Benson, "to invade your space as you showered and-" she paused.

"And?" Jayden didn't realise the amount of impatience his voice bore.

Josey held his gaze as she informed, "And sexually harass you."

This time, the gasps were even louder. Lara's hand had flown to her mouth as had Brie's and the twins. Kira's eyes widened and she immediately grabbed Jayden's arm to provide any necessary support.

"Dios mio," Dana gaped, holding onto Katy who couldn't tear her astonished gaze away from Mrs. Benson.

Before Jayden could even react to the preposterousness he had just heard, his mother chimed in,

"You liar. I would never do such a thing to my son!"

Tess boldly retorted, "Don't you dare deny it, Mrs. Benson. That fateful day, you told me to enter his bathroom while he was showering, harass him, and return with the feedback of his reaction."

"Is this true?" Jayden earnestly shifted his gaze to his mother who was now being held by her husband. "Did you actually instruct someone to harass me?"

"I didn't! I never used the word, 'harass'," she confessed, all in all, revealing that there was some truth to what Tess and Josey had claimed.

His mother had planned it. She had sent someone into his bathroom to test him like he was some lab rat. Like he was a mere test subject, an experiment to be worked on.

Tess went on, fueling the tension that had already painted the suddenly gloomy walls of the hall into a dull ash, "She instructed me to be handsy, and give her feedback on your reaction. To go all out. If you fed into it, then you were a lost soul to her."

"Wow," Kira muttered. Did the woman have any knowledge of how that test could have negatively affected the boy who had been trying to locate his steps in an eternal quest for freedom?

Jayden fixed his overwhelmed gaze on his mother's. He couldn't believe she had planned the shower harassment. He couldn't believe she had actually ordered someone to do exactly what had been haunting him since he was seven. "So you did this without even considering that you could be triggering very painful and disturbing memories?"

He asked again when silence was the response he had received, "Why would you ask someone to do this?"

Tess answered for the momentarily speechless woman, "She claimed she had wanted to test you. I asked if this was the necessary way, but she power played me and reminded me of my place as her maid and nothing more. She told me that she knew what was best for her son, reminding me that I had to do whatever she said since I was under her."

Jayden grimaced, his chest tightening as he swallowed in the information.

If only Jayden knew there was much more to stomach down. He would forcefully become a ruminant just for the four stomachs they bore.

Man had to be well-prepared for anything in this life.

Tess murmured, "I'm sorry."

But Jayden recalled that she had twisted the story of the shower scene to the maids. The story the maids had received from her was that he had been inappropriate with her, and not the other way around. Why would she lie about it?

"Tess," he said, turning to face her, "Why then did you lie to the girls? Why did you tell them that I had been trying to have my way with you when you knew that wasn't true?"

Tess nodded her expectation of his question, and apologetically said, "Well, when the rejection happened," she clarified, "I wasn't against the rejection happening, but the way it happened. My ego was severely bruised. I hadn't expected you to snap that way."