THE BOSS TAKES A WIFE

Gabriel Maestri grew up in Italy with his parents, Sergio and Kaia. His father was a man who expected the best from everyone, and even better from his son.

He was a man that believed showing love or affection towards anyone, even his own family was a sign of weakness and would not tolerate such things.

Throughout his youth, Gabriel was groomed to become the successful, cunning and ruthless man his father wanted him to be.

To Sergio love means weakness and women are only good for a mans pleasure in bed. A wife is just for public appearances and a mistress was for pleasure.

For ten years he had tried to get his son to choose a wife from a wealthy family. His mother, Kaia was not much better, she was cold towards him, never showed him love, and he was mainly raised by nannies until he was old enough to go to boarding school.

With his fathers backing, he started building his empire, paying him back with interest.

He had his own home built as far from his parents as he could. They never celebrated holidays together, only got together occasionally.

Paige Mosley was a young woman with simple needs. She was an orphan from birth, going from one foster home to another until she reached the age where it was considered old enough to be on her own. She never really fit in, with her delicate features, her hair blond, so light in color it was almost white.

From the age of sixteen, she worked jobs as a waitress, babysitter, and other odd jobs and went to school at night.

When she turned eighteen she got a full-time job as a maid at the Maestri hotel in New York. In the three years she worked there she made friends with the other staff members. They became like a family of sorts.

But when news came that the hotel was shutting down a cloud of despair hung over everyones head. Many of who worked there were getting up in age, others were young and had no education and jobs would be hard to find. As it was they weren paid very well, they depended mostly on tips.

When word spread that the owner was coming to inspect the hotel to determine what was needed to bring it up to date to be sold the staff panicked.

This hotel was the only one that had been neglected over the years and was in need of a lot of work such as carpets replaced as well as new furniture and paint.

Though it was kept clean it still had become shabby.

The staff got together to talk, trying to come up with a way to persuade the owner to keep the hotel open and let the employees keep their jobs.

Paige and a couple of the other maids cleaned the penthouse suite from top to bottom, it was the best suite in the hotel.

Everything was ready for his arrival. The bar inside the room was fully stocked with his favorite wines and liquor upon his earlier request.

They all waited nervously for his arrival, having heard all about him it was obvious they were deathly afraid.