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Author: V.C. Andrews

Category: Horror

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battered old running shoes. Her ankles looked bruised

and swollen,

"It makes no sense for me coming here to clean.

Believe me, ten minutes after I'm gone, she gonna

turn it back to a pigsty," she whined.

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Felix closed the door by pounding it with his

sledgehammer fist. He glared at her.

"And believe me it makes no sense your living

here rent free without doing the work." he responded. "I do the work!" she moaned. "She ruins it, so I

just give up. I ain't a slave, you know."

"You don't decide when to give up," he said

firmly. "Or if you do, you move off the property" She looked away angrily, her gaze falling on

me with stinging fury. I immediately thought she

believed I was the reason she was being chastised. If I

hadn't come, no one would have discovered how

poorly she was keeping the house.

Felix lifted his right hand and pointed to the

chandelier.

"No one can change a lightbulb? What's that

got to do with how Miss Wilkens conducts herself?

And this doorjamb. Why hasn't it been sanded and

adjusted? Look at those shades dangling in rooms.

What about the ones missing from the upstairs

bedroom? I'm afraid to inspect the rest of the house.

Minor repairs have been neglected everywhere you

look here: the porch steps, porch floor, railings, that

stairway and banister. The place is a disaster and it

was once a prime property."

"None of that's my fault. I just agreed to clean

up. That other stuffs my father's job," she said. He

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