Chương 66: The Honey-Colored Eyes

Fae could only look at the man with pity. It must be hard being a person with such severe insomnia as Mr. Friedrich. She assumed he must be feeling really tired because of being so sleep-deprived that he could just fall asleep in this position.

It must be really uncomfortable, she thought.

Unfortunately, she could not and, of course, did not dare to correct the guest's sleeping posture. She was afraid to wake up this VVIP guest because of his reputation among the staff.

Finally, very carefully and trying not to make a sound at all, Fae tiptoed and closed all the windows and doors and then closed the blackout curtains in the room, so that the room turned really dark.

At least, with the blackout curtain closed, he could sleep better, Fae thought.

After making sure the guest was still fast asleep, Fae then tidied up the trolley and cleaning robot, then left Villa no. 4. She carefully closed the door behind her, taking care not to make a sound, before returning to the housekeepers' quarter.

Ms. Kohler earlier said she could rest and only take up cleaning duties after lunch. So, she decided to sit in the kitchen and chat with the cook while enjoying her late breakfast.

***

After having a quick rest and lunch, Fae returned to work and cleaned several suites and rooms at the resort. She finished all her tasks by 5 pm and immediately packed up to go home.

After changing her clothes and saying goodbye to her colleagues, Fae took her bicycle from the resort's parking lot and immediately rode her bike to go home.

Five minutes after Fae went home, suddenly the phone in the housekeepers' quarter rang. Ms. Kohler immediately picked up and greeted the caller in a friendly voice.

"Hello, this is housekeeping. How may I help you?"

Mr. Friedrich fixed his shirt collar as he put the phone to his ear. His eyes were blinking hard, trying to adjust his vision to the light coming from outside.

He opened the blackout curtains that covered all the windows in his bedroom and had turned the atmosphere pitch black. Now the sunlight that entered through the window made his eyes hurt.

"Hello, this is from Villa No. 4. I like the housekeeper that was cleaning my villa today. I want her to be my regular housekeeper. I don't want anyone else."

Without waiting for a reply from the other end, he had hung up the call. As usual, he gave orders, not requests.

He put down his phone on the bedside table, next to the porcelain vase filled with a beautiful lavender flower arrangement.

The handsome man shook his head, still unable to believe that he had slept so soundly for nearly six hours. He couldn't remember the last time he slept for that long!

***

Fae's eyes went round in astonishment when she heard what Ms. Kohler say the next morning. She was told to always clean Villa no. 4 because the VVIP guest seemed to really like her performance.

Fae was actually worried that she was summoned by her manager because the VVIP guest was not happy with her work. She thought the man would think she was presumptuous by putting some lavender in the villa's master bedroom. However, it was actually the opposite.

She breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

Okay. If she was assigned to be the permanent housekeeper for Villa No. 4 because their VVIP guest loved her job, Fae would consider it an honor.

She read her schedule for the day and realized that, like yesterday, she was also scheduled to clean Villa No. 4 at 10 am.

She started her work by cleaning several rooms in the west wing of the resort before walking toward the Villa No. 4 with her cleaning equipment.

At 10 am, she was already at the door. Fae took the key out of her pocket and opened the door. She pushed the trolley in. After setting the cleaner robot to sweep and mop the floor, Fae immediately walked toward the bedroom.

She was very happy to see that the bed which had been untouched for several days, now was a little messy. That means their VVIP guest finally slept on it!

She was in a very happy mood when she thought that her extra effort with the lavender had helped Mr. Friedrich sleep. Subconsciously, her lips hummed her favorite song.

"Eh...?" Her singing voice suddenly stopped, replaced by a muffled shriek, as her body froze in place.

When she entered the master bedroom, Fae found that the occupant of the room was apparently still there. Mr. Friedrich was sitting on his desk across from his bed with his legs crossed. He seemed to be reading something.

Fae's muffled shriek moved the man from his book, and he looked up to see where the sound was coming.

His eyes were extremely light brown, almost like honey-colored, and they looked stunned when he saw Fae standing there frozen and with a shocked expression.

The two of them stared at each other for a long time without making a sound.

Fae was embarrassed because she was singing to her heart's content without knowing that there were other people in the villa.

And oh .. she was actually singing because she was very happy when she thought how the handsome young man she saw yesterday finally managed to get some sleep because of her.

But when she saw that the man was awake in front of her now, suddenly Fae didn't know what to do. Subconsciously she lowered her head.

As her gaze fell on her ugly housekeeper uniform, suddenly, a feeling of insecurity and embarrassment crept inside her chest.