During Dominic Waverly’s crowded engagement dinner, housemaid Maya approached his table to place water down for his elderly German shepherd, Bruno.
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Chapter 16
Three years after the engagement dinner, Maya became head of household operations.
Not because she had been victimized.
Because she was good.
Important distinction.
She reorganized staff rotations.
Improved security communication.
Reduced waste.
And refused to let me call everything “security” when I simply disliked change.
Annoying woman.
Useful.
One evening she entered my study and placed a water bowl beside the fireplace out of habit.
Then stopped.
Bruno was gone.
We both looked at it.
She laughed softly.
“Still doing that.”
“Leave it.”
She looked at me.
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
She raised an eyebrow.
Fair.
May you like
We removed it.
Memory did not require props everywhere.
