Private Finished Good Help Is Hard to Find

“Godfrey! Get the fucking god damn door, would you! Now!” Tomas shouted as he quickly made his way down the stairs to the hall library, his study. He had an important business meeting in an hour and need to double check that everything was okay for the next shipment leaving Barcelona for South Africa.

“Yes, Master Tomas, if you insist ... I'll get the fucking god damn door for you,” Godfrey said in a calm unaffected tone, extremely used to his employer's sudden outbursts of rudeness as he headed towards the front door to see who was crazy enough to be knocking on their door at this hour.

"Keep it up, Godfrey... your insolence is gonna get you fired." Tomas growled overhearing Godfrey's words as he then slammed shut the door to his study. Bloody manservant. He'd fire him if he could find someone else... but good servants were hard to find.

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"Miss Praeministra," Godfrey sighed, as he looked at the young girl, woman, with a calm gaze. She had to meet the master, bastard that he was. He'd have rather saved her the unpleasant experience altogether, but unfortunately, Tomas was an untrusting individual and insisted him meet each new member of staff. "Follow me. You need to meet our illustrious master," he informed her, his voice holding a hint of sarcasm as he said the words "illustrious master".

Knocking on the door of the study, not waiting for Tomas's reply, he gently shoved forward Praeministra into the darkly lighted room. "Praeministra, sir. She's here to replace Matilda, sir..." he said, referring to the last housemaid that had suddenly left in a flurry of tears and hysteria.

"What the..? Godfrey! Didn't I say not to bother me..." Tomas bit out as he looked up from his paperwork. Clearly annoyed at being interrupted. Then seeing the young woman, he looked darkly at Godfrey. "Who's that?" he asked pointing at Prae.

"The new housemaid, sir. You know, one of the servants you like to yell at and scare off periodically, sir." Godfrey said staring in front of him, not looking at Tomas.

At this, Tomas glared at Godfrey, and then swore under his breathe.

"Geez, okay, fine.. whatever..." he grumbled, relenting as he got up and looked at the girl. with some interest "What's young name?" he asked her, holding up a hand to silence Godfrey. He wanted to hear it for himself.

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"Praeministra, huh?!" Tomas said evenly as he looked her up and down quite openly considering the young woman before him. She wasn't too bad looking, nothing he'd probably be hitting on anytime soon. He much preferred them a bit older, more curvy, and with a bit more spirit. Praeministra also looked awfully young to be posing as a house servant which made him somewhat suspicious too.

"Tell me... Where have you worked before?" Tomas demanded as he immediately shot Godfrey a glance warning him to be quiet and not interfere. He didn't need him to inform Tomas of her background. He'd asked her, not Godfrey.

"And how old are you anyways?" he suddenly asked, before she could answer the other questions. Still not comfortable having somebody so young working for him. Minors often caused problems - unnecessary problems with the law. as well as other problems.

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While Tomas listened, he folded his arms in front of him, considering all that the girl, Praeministra, had just told him. 16 or 17 meant that she could work legally, just barely though, but enough that he was satisfied with the answers and the fact that she wanted to work here. Lord knew, they needed someone to cook and clean. Godfrey was useless at both, luckily he was good at administering things and keeping the house running.

"Do the dead bother you?" Tomas asked suddenly as he stood up and walked around her. "Like corpses or dead bodies?" he asked with keen interest. He wouldn't have another Matilda that started crying hysterically when Godfrey asked her to clean up downstairs after one of Tomas's reanimated bodies suddenly blew up... it had been too putrid and too filled with methane to survive long.

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Here Tomas actually chuckled, making corpses would have been an excellent thing to have if she could have provided such a service for him. "No, nothing illegal. At least, not on your part..." he murmured and smiled in quiet amusement at this. Grave-robbing was not legal, but few people ever checked to see if the body of their loved one was still buried once it was in the ground, and so, he doubted few ever noticed that he periodically "borrowed" a body here and there from freshly dug graves.

"Your duties will include washing, cleaning and cooking when I'm home. My day doesn't start before 8 am, I expect you will be at your duties shortly before then, and your day ends roughly around 6... later if there is a dinner party. Weekends, you can have off..." he declared, he was rarely home at weekends anyway.

"We will provide you with a uniform, room and board," Tomas said as he looked at Praeministra evenly. "In my absence, you can ignore Godfrey... " he said smirking at his manservant, "Questions?" he asked her, now getting bored with the interview. The fun was wearing off.

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