Episode 14

I worked in a cafeteria in the city center, not a place frequented by rich people but more by workers who didn't want to pay a lot to eat.

I was at the cash desk taking payments.

I'd been working there for a long time and I wasn't well paid, but I got on well with my colleagues, which was better than nothing.

However, when the new manager of the cafeteria was hired, I began to experience uncomfortable situations.

He had some invasive attitudes, like when I was closing the till, sometimes he would appear and massage my shoulders, with the excuse that he wanted to see if I was closing the till properly.

I felt really bad about it, when I smelled his cigarette near me, it made my stomach lurch.

Even though I tried to get away from him, he didn't seem to realize that I despised his attitude and almost always came to ask me if I wanted to go for a beer with him after work, if he could take me home and things like that.

His harassment was unbearable and I couldn't understand how, after several no's and several times of deliberately walking away from him, he was still doing it. If I could, I'd quit that job, but I couldn't stay without a job, I was in debt and I was the one who paid all Henry's expenses and now was the time I needed the job the most, since my period had been late for a few months...

I usually took something to eat at work, since I took advantage of my lunch break to stop by Henry's house very quickly to give him lunch and then go back to work.

One day, however, I decided to leave the cafeteria just before work, precisely to avoid my boss's harassment, since he knew when I was going to eat and I was afraid he would attack me when I was alone in the cafeteria.

That day, something strange happened: near my work there was a park, so I decided to go there to eat my sandwich.

While I was eating, I heard a call for help and when I looked, there were some kids attacking a man.

They surrounded the man and threatened him with a penknife. The people around him didn't help him and ran for cover, since that gang was already known for robbing people there.

I was a little hesitant, since helping that gentleman could put my life at risk and the lives of my suspects too.

But I couldn't see that injustice and I went there to help.

I shouted at the kids to leave you alone, but they laughed at me and asked me to stay out of it if I didn't want to get stabbed too.

So I told them that surely someone had already called the police and that that gentleman looked like a mafioso. He was well dressed and walking around that dangerous park, he could only be someone more dangerous than them.

The kids hesitated, but eventually ran off and you came to thank me.

"What can I say to you? Thank you very much! It's my first time in this city and I didn't know how dangerous it was here."

"No need to thank me, it was nothing, I just did what everyone should do, help others. What's more, those kids are fearful, they only take advantage of those who look weak, just put a little paranoia in their heads and they'll run away."

"You saved my life, let me repay you."

"I told you, sir. I didn't do anything, you don't have to give me anything."

"Look, here's my card. I really want to reward you, I believe that good people should be rewarded for their acts of kindness."

He gave me his card, insisting that he had to do something for me. I disagreed and left, as I was already late to give Henry his lunch.

A few days passed and I had forgotten about the event, but then that gentleman came into the cafeteria. He ordered a coffee and told the waitress to call me over.

I went up to him and he asked me if I could sit at the table, as he wanted to talk to me calmly. I refused, of course, since it was my work hours and that's exactly what I told him before returning to my station.

The thing is, that man started coming to the diner every day and every day he would call me, insisting on wanting to talk to me. I was even suspicious that he had some bad intentions, just like my boss seemed to.

Not only did I have a blind husband who depended on me and didn't see me as a wife, my period had stopped, Henry's stepmother and half-brother harassed me, my boss made advances on me, and now I had a customer stalking me.

I was tired, you know? Tired. Tired of that life, tired of giving so much of myself and getting almost nothing in return.

Henry said that making love to me was his way of repaying me for my services, but I say that making love to him didn't make me feel rewarded.

Of course, when we made love, it was the best part of the day. Only in that moment did I feel like a woman and not a maid.

Henry in bed always made me very excited, he was intense and dominant, it seemed like he didn't need to see to know my body.

When we made love, he devoured me, with desire and made me feel desired.

But it was only in that moment, because after it all ended, I went back to feeling like his caregiver, a mere maid.

Well, those days were decisive, I was already begging for a solution from the heavens, feeling completely cornered from all sides and that's when we arrived at the day I heard what that man wanted to tell me.

I closed the diner every day, at the last hour it was always just me, a fellow waitress, and my disgusting boss. However, my coworker had a family issue and had to leave early that day, and I was desperate. I was going to be alone with my manager and I was terrified he would try something.

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