My Four Miraculous Treasures novel Chapter 97

No, it wasn’t her fault!

She squirmed backward, throwing up both hands to shield her face, gesturing surrender even as she flushed bright red.

Jasper peered down at her from above, fighting back all kinds of dark impulses as he followed after her. “So… this is your idea of doing an honest job?”

It was a massive misunderstanding! Willow couldn’t see a way out of this anymore…

“It’s not like that, sir! I know… how about I scrub down each and every toilet in this entire building?” There was as nothing she could say here, really. She scrambled away from him, and made her escape from his office at last.

Now, she needed to prove that she had genuinely come here to be a good janitor, and nothing more. As promised, she went to clean the toilets.

All she’d wanted to do was tell him that she wasn’t the one behind those rumors!

But somehow, she’d ended up on her knees before the man, tugging at his trousers.

Thinking back on that scene, Willow blushed furiously.

No… she needed to find out the true source of the rumors, in order to prove her own innocence. As long as there was any suspicion of her guilt, she wouldn’t be able to leave this company—because then she’d look really guilty!

She got started on the toilets on the lowest floor, and soon she was huffing and puffing from the toil of her labors.

With a heroic effort, she finally finished off the last toilet, on the highest floor.

It was half-past-five, now. She put away the mop, and made ready to leave…

But then she remembered Sean Fawcett’s new orders: Every day from now on, she’d have to wait for Jasper to leave, and then tidy up his office for him, before she could go. Otherwise, she’d lose half a month’s pay!

Had he left, yet? She’d have to take a peek inside his office, to find out…

Standing outside the door to his office, she raised a hand to knock… but then she remembered what had happened in there earlier, and she hesitated…