My name is Jazmin Leroy Garcia, twenty years old, my eyes are dark green and my hair was a blonde mane, until one day I decided to change it to dark copper, it is still a mane that I almost always wear tied up.

I am somewhat thin, but I have a good body, a lot on top and bottom, I would say.

My parents, Ulises Leroy and Marie Garcia, humble people from the town of Grasse, France, we live in a small house, on the outskirts of the city, since my parents were jasmine flower growers. Some time ago, they stopped working for the owners of the farm where the flower is grown, due to the fact that Dad got sick, he is a somewhat older man, so I took his place, Mom takes care of him, I finished my secondary studies, but I couldn't continue to university, because at that time my father was diagnosed with lung cancer, I work hard to cover some of the medical expenses. I have a fifteen-year-old sister named Azucena. I am named after jasmine, because it is my mom's favorite flower and also because I was born in the very place where they are grown. My parents tell us that my mom went that day to take lunch to Dad, she didn't think that I would be born that day, since it was still time for my birth, but I was born a week earlier than planned.

My dreams have always been to be a recognized model, I have wanted to be the number one model for one of the most important perfume brands in France, that would be like the brand of my bosses' company, they are the owners of the entire place where I work, the Bernad Petit family.

Personally, I don't know them, since they live in Paris, they have the great estate here in Grasse, but very few come here, they are seen in magazines and things like that, but in person almost no one knows them, it is known that their only heir is in another country, but he is not seen on magazine covers.

To earn a little more money, I work in the big house, as they say, I am a part-time service employee on the estate.

Mr. Wilfred, the foreman, is a very good friend of Dad, he has a son, Sebastian, twenty-five years old, he is a very handsome, tall, muscular guy, with dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and full lips, he likes me, he has told me, I also like him, but not to say that I love him, in the mornings I am on the estate and in the afternoons I am in the fields.

Just today is an exhausting day, and it is that tonight, the owners of the estate will arrive.

"Jazmin, I need you to take care of the rooms, that everything is spotless, first clean the master bedroom, then the others, and one thing, leave the room at the back shining, today the owner's son will finally come and from what his mother told me he is very demanding in everything, so I entrust that room to you very much."

"It will be done, Mr. Wilfred."

And that's how everything is on the estate, everyone going from one side to the other, I learned from one of the girls who also works here, that the so-called Rene, because that's the owner's son's name, is coming with his wife. I had no idea that he is married and since nothing is known about him through the media, I didn't know anything about it.

I do everything that Mr. Wilfred told me to do, and I leave the place, heading to the fields, in the distance I can see Sebastian coming, I continue with my work, until he arrives next to me

"Hello beautiful, how was your day?"

"Hello Sebastian, today has been a very exhausting day, but I can't complain, the good thing is that there is work, you know that I need these two jobs to help with the expenses of my dad's medications"

"Yes, I understand you, and what have you thought about what I proposed to you?"

"I haven't had a head for that, besides you know that I don't love you, and I don't want to be your girlfriend without loving you"

"But love comes later"

"Things are not like that, but let me think about it a little more, please."

"Okay beautiful, I'll leave you because I'm going to run some errands that my father sent me to do."

And that was the day, I'm finally going home, I'm really tired, but I do everything for Dad, I love my parents and my crazy sister very much, although she is only fifteen she looks older than me, she has an incredible imagination.

"Good evening, I'm here." I said as I entered the house, Dad is sitting in the old armchair.

"Hello my princess, how was it?"

"Good Dad, the Bernards are arriving today and they also say that their son will arrive."

"Yes, Wilfred told me something, he came to see me for a while."

"Daughter, you look exhausted."

"I'm fine Mom, where is Azucena?"

"She's in the room, getting ready to come to dinner, we were waiting for you."

When I hear her screams, I just shake my head and smile

"Sister, is it true that the Bernards are coming?"

"Yes, that's right, who told you?"

"I know everything ha, ha, ha. I smile at her antics and the truth is that I already know who told her, Agnes, Mr. Wilfred's youngest daughter, they are very good friends, although Agnes is a year older than Azucena, they tell each other every gossip."

"Yes right, it was Agnes who told you."

"Okay, okay, she told me, and she also told me that the bitter Rene Bernard will arrive"

"And how do you know that he is bitter if no one knows him."

"Little sister, you forget that Julieta works in the Bernards' mansion, there in Paris."

"Right, I had forgotten. Julieta is Wilfred's second daughter, she is two years older than me."

"Well, stop the gossip and let's have dinner. My mother says and Dad just smiles, he looks a little bad, but he knows how to hide it in front of us although I already know when he is like that."

My name is Rene Bernard Petit, I am thirty years old, the only son of Marcus Bernard and Yvonne Petit. I have always had everything I wanted, as they say, I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and I have things when I want them and how I want them, my parents are the owners of the largest perfume factory in France.

Everything was wonderful in my life, as an only child I was my parents' spoiled child, my admiration was always for my dad, until I turned eighteen, yes, that day my idol fell off the pedestal, Dad, who I always saw loving my mother, having details with her, they were the most envied couple, as they say, the ideal couple, one for the other, but everything changed. One day I went to look for Dad at the hacienda, where they grow jasmine flowers, which are then sent to the factory. Mom was feeling very bad, she told me she had strong pains in her lower abdomen, I did what I could and went to the hacienda and when I arrived, I found Dad with his secretary, the two of them were in the living room having se@@, my world came crashing down, I almost started hitting him, but I remembered two things, one that he is my dad and the other that mom was unwell at home. So I took the flight on the private jet back home, no matter how much Dad wanted to talk to me, I refused, I didn't tell my mother anything.

And so it was, I arrived and Mom was already in the hospital, she had lost the baby, yes, she was pregnant. Every day I blamed Dad, I don't know how Mom found out about his infidelity and everything changed at home, I changed too. I went to study in Germany, I removed what little there was of me on social media, Dad almost always kept me distant from all that and when he failed Mom, I moved further away from the public eye.

Five years ago I married Margot Boyer, our marriage was because one night after drinking we slept together and she got pregnant, but then she had an accident and lost the baby, I don't love her, but I have always tried to please her in everything, I have had affairs, and she has suspected it, she has never seen me with another woman.

After so many years I returned to my homeland, France, things between Dad and Mom changed a lot, she forgave him, after begging my mother for a chance so much. A year ago my father had a heart attack, he was able to be treated in time, and since I almost lost him, I forgave him, now he wants me to take control of the company, I have a modeling agency in Germany, but I want to please Dad and I will take command of everything.

We will meet at the hacienda, just for a few days, it's good for Dad and when we return I will take charge, I will be the new CEO of the company.

"I don't like being in this kind of places. Margot tells me."

"don't start with your things, we came here for my parents, you should have stayed in Paris."

"what for? So that your parents later throw it in my face that I didn't come?"

"then I don't want to hear you say anything, for God's sake, you have everything, I indulge you in everything, you could cooperate."

I see that she makes a sour face, and I ignore her, sometimes Margot gets very heavy.

Today very early I will go to the hacienda, I will help as much as I can, since in the afternoon I will go to the field to harvest.

"tell me what he's like?"

"what is he like? I ask my sister"

"he, your boss."

"Mr. Bernard?"

"no, the son"

"for God's sake, what are those comments, you are too young to be thinking about men."

"little sister, young maybe, but not blind, besides, one day I will get married, I will have children, stop being jealous."

"yes, I know, but while that age arrives, I will take care of you and be jealous. She gives me a smile, I hug her and leave the house."

Dad had a bad night, I heard him complain a lot, I'm worried, I would like to take him to a hospital, they would take good care of him there, but we don't have enough money, with what we have we only cover some medications.

I am arriving at the hacienda, I enter through the kitchen door and start helping the girls, they are preparing a breakfast fit for a battalion.

"Why so much?"

"because the lady wants her son to try everything, if she feeds him like this these days, she will take him rolling to Paris. Says one of the girls."

We all laugh and suddenly we feel the atmosphere become tense, upon hearing a throat clearing, and there we see an imposing man, one who with looking at us gives us the feeling that he wants to kill us, I ignore his face of a badly paid guard and continue with my thing.

"who is in charge of cleaning my room. I smell that this one is already going to bother."

"it's me. I tell him sharply looking him straight in the eye without lowering my head, this one shouldn't think that because he is the owner of everything he is going to come and believe himself to be more."

"I'm telling you, young lady, that you are doing it very badly. And I already feel my blood boiling."

"I have a name, Mr. Bossy, my name is Jazmin, and if you don't like how your room turned out, then I'm sorry, for you. Mr. Wilfred told me that everything was in order so you can go and talk to him."

I see that the man makes a sour face and leaves like a wild beast.

"you are going to get into trouble, he can fire you. The cook tells me and I just shake my head, I think if I passed a little, I remember Dad and that I need this job and if they fire me from this job, also from the other one. It was a mistake, but it's that I don't let anyone mess with me and I get annoyed by people like that."

That brat, she'll see what I'm capable of.

Although, looking at her closely, she doesn't look bad at all, but she's going to pay for what she just did to me, no one makes fun of Rene Bernard, especially not a little girl like that.

Those eyes, and that way of being, make me want to give her a few spankings, I'd like to have her under me, with no clothes on, and we'll see if she's as tough as she says. She'll see who she's messed with.

I like her, yes, let's see if you can refuse to do what I want, just like you talk, I already said it, I get what I want, no matter what.

"Good morning, son."

"Good morning, Dad, how are you feeling?"

"Being here is good for me."

"Well, you should stay longer, I'll take care of everything."

"I'll take you up on that, son," Mom says, arriving at the dining room.

"I need to talk to Wilfred."

"Is something wrong, son?"

"No, Dad, I just want to go to the fields, I want to see how everything is out there."

"Are you going to be among the laborers?"

"We've talked about this, Margot, I'm two steps away from sending you to Paris."

"Let's have breakfast," my mother says. She was really happy when she found out I was going to get married, but when she traveled to Germany to meet Margot, she didn't like her. She didn't object, she always stays out of my decisions, and even though she doesn't say anything to me, I know her and I know she doesn't like my wife at all.

I see the girl Jazmin enter, pretty, of course, but with the temper of a demon. I smile inwardly.

"Good morning," she says in such a sweet way that I can't believe she's the same smart aleck from a while ago.

"Good morning, girl," my mother says, looking at her as if she saw an angel, the ideal girl.

"Are you new here?" my dad asks.

"And what does it matter if she's new, she's just an employee." The girl tenses up, you can tell she wants to fire off a few words at my wife.

"She works on my farm, for me, and I need to know who the people I hire are," my dad says in a very annoyed tone.

"Sir, I've been working here for three years," she says, looking at me with a face that says she doesn't like me, and I remain serious, but I like that attitude, I love this girl.

"Do you have family here?"

"Good morning, sorry to interrupt," Wilfred says, entering the dining room with another boy.

"Wilfred, good morning," Mom says. "I was asking the girl if she has family here."

"Yes, ma'am, she is the daughter of Ulises Leroy." She remains silent and I see her exchange glances with the boy.

"It shows we haven't been here in a long time," Dad says.

"And your dad? Is he still working for us?"

"No, ma'am, Dad is very sick." And I notice nostalgia in her words.

"Oh! I'm sorry," Mom says, continuing to serve breakfast, but I see that the boy can't stop looking at her.

"And he is?" I ask, annoyed by how he's looking at Jazmin, and I don't understand why.

"Mr. Rene, he is my son Sebastian." I nod and see that Jazmin walks to the kitchen and the boy tells her something in a very low voice before she leaves, she nods and leaves.

It seems to me that they are in love or maybe they are dating, but let's see how much they love each other.

"Wilfred, can you wait for me to have breakfast so you can take me to the fields." Wilfred nods, he has been working for my family for years, but I haven't seen him much since that night I found Dad in this place with his lover.

A while later I'm in the fields with Wilfred and Sebastian.

"Son, go do what I asked you to do, they have to make that shipment today." Sebastian nods and leaves.

"I need to know something."

"Yes sir, tell me."

"Stop treating me like that, you used to call me by my name."

"Okay, tell me what you want to know?"

"What does Ulises have?"

"He is sick, he has lung cancer." I feel a little sorry, but I think I have the upper hand. I know I'm a bastard sometimes, but I want to test that girl. When I act like this, I know I have earned hell, but I'm used to getting my way.

Although I don't think that girl is as innocent as she looks, I can even bet that she has already slept with that Sebastian guy.

"And the daughter, she works for him, I imagine."

"She is the support of her house, she is the only one who works to support her family, she has two jobs and even so, they haven't been able to do anything to save Ulises."

"So she's not studying?"

"No, she finished her secondary studies and couldn't continue."

Wilfred told me everything I wanted to know about the bad-tempered Jazmin. The name doesn't suit her, I think she should have been called Bitterness or something like that, but it doesn't matter, she'll see how I break her. She's going to ask for more than I'll give her. I'm going to let her run and provoke her, I'll make her believe that she's winning and when she least expects it I'll have her on her knees before me and not especially asking for forgiveness.

I spent almost the whole morning in the fields, at lunchtime, I go to the farm.

"Son, everything okay?"

"Yes, I like how they work, everything is fine out there, I'll review some accounting books of the shipments, I know Wilfred keeps everything in order, but it doesn't hurt to review."

"No son, Wilfred doesn't handle that, Sebastian, his son, is doing it."

I remain silent, I nod and with more reason I will review them.

"I understand, I'll review them anyway."

"That sounds good." At that moment I see Jazmin or baptized by me as Bitterness, enters and starts serving.

"Your wife has been locked up," Mom says.

"The best thing is to send her to Paris," my dad tells me.

"I'll stay a few more days, and yes, the best thing is for her to leave, I can't stand her tantrums." At that moment, the little girl drops a glass of water on me, I'm not stupid, I know she did it on purpose, so with that we have, I'll make her believe that I believe in her innocence.