Old Butler's Story

Maya had the folder in her hand as she was planning to take it to her office anyways.

"Here." She gave the report to her father.

It was not a thick folder as Sofia had only told Uncle Ren to find information on Lucas's latest activities yesterday night.

To sum up, Samartha Parker; (Mrs. Parker) was very well involved in this incident.

However, Lucas had not been in contact with Samartha. Instead, lately he had a lot of calls with his ex-agent/ manager- Martha Collins.

The file showed that Martha had sent a bunch of information to Lucas regarding Sofia.

It also contained the fact that Sofia had a bit of 'open minded' personality and therefore was an easy target for Lucas to take his action on.

Sofia felt really ashamed of herself, specially because she was in front of her uncle and father... anyone would have been embarrassed in a situation like this.

Moving on, Uncle Ren said a bit sternly so as to change the focus of the people present here , "As written in the file, Martha had not conducted any investigation for this information; it was sent to her by the number written here. And as we all had already guessed, this phone number belongs to Sister-in-law."

Knowing that their mother was involved in yesterday's 'cheap' incident, somehow both Maya and Sofia were not surprised. But it did not mean that it didn't hurt to know the truth.

"Papa....are we....adopted?" Suddenly Sofia asked as she looked at him.

"Sofia!!", Maya grasped Sofia's hand as she looked at her with shocked eyes.

This was a taboo topic in their family.

.......

When they were young, even Maya used to ask this a lot to her mother and father. Samartha would scoff instead of answering whereas David; their father, would just look at them with sadness in his eyes. Many times he used to have anger in his eyes as well.

During that time Maya was young and didn't know when to stop with her questions so she tried asking the household servants....it turned out that they also tried to hide things from her.

On the same night, as the twelve year old Maya headed to the kitchen for a glass of water, she heard a few servants talking with the the Old Butler. They were asking him about the secret of the family.

Like Maya, even they held thier own assumptions like, were adopted? or maybe illegitimate children? They asked the Old Butler since he was the only person who had been in this household since years.

After a while, Old Butler finally gave in and warned them, "Although you guys look reliable, I would like to remind you that I am just telling you this piece of information so that you never cross the lines that you should not have in this house. If I get to know that this information is turning into rumours and spreading around, well.... I think you all know that you would be soon dealt with."

Maya who was also standing outside the kitchen felt as if her legs were glued to the same place. She was not able to understand the meanings of several words like 'illegitimate' or 'dealt with' but she had a basic understanding that they were not good things....

The Old Butler then continued, "Around ten years ago, a lady had arrived at the door of this house with two little girls...." as the Butler said this, he had a smile in his face, "The girls were Miss Maya and Miss Sofia. Both of them were around one to two years old. They looked adorable." He took a pause, "The lady who had brought them here claimed to be their mother, and said that they were Master's daughters. That lady is now our Madam, Mrs. Samantha Parker."

*gasp!* Everyone was a bit shocked as one of them asked, "So, did Master already know Mrs. Parker and loved her or was it a....mistake?"

"Master did know Madam before. It was just that, they were only acquaintances. Master in fact had a lady he loved but-" The Old Butler stopped before he spilled the beans. "I have already said too much! Forget it! Just remember that you should never talked about this topic in front of Master! Okay?"

Maya did not know what to do of the things that she had just found out. She quickly ran. back to her room where she saw her little sister sleeping. "She looks like a doll! I will hug her to sleep!" Maya exclaimed as she got onto the bed and dived into a deep sleep.

.....

"Sofia!!" Maya looked at Sofia with shocked eyes "Father...it is okay, you do not need to answer her. She is just a bit emotional right now-"

"No....no Maya, it is high time that I answer a few questions now" Said Mr. Parker.