06/11/2025
No maid lasted a day with five billionaire children, until a Black woman changed everything. Elanor Brooks stood frozen in the doorway of the creeping mansion, unable to tear her eyes away from the chaotic scene unfolding in the once elegant living room.
Splatters of red and green paint covered the walls.
The plush leather was marked.
The armchairs were askew.
Shattered ornaments littered the floor, and clouds of white feathers fell from torn pillows.
They still floated in the air like snow in midsummer.
But it wasn't the mess that stunned her.
It was the children's intense, furious, desperate stares.
"Don't even think we'll like you, Jud," snarled the oldest, about 14, throwing a model airplane that landed near her feet. "We don't need another maid. We want Mom back."
Behind him stood his younger siblings: Tesa, Noa, Lily, and Son, their faces blemished and their eyes shining with exhaustion, as if preparing for another intruder to hurt them.
In the past eight months, those five children had scared off 20 housekeepers in a matter of hours.
And today they were clearly ready to make Eleanor the next one.
Yet when Eleanor looked at their little faces, she didn't see rude or destructive children.
She saw little hearts struggling with pain.
She saw the terror of being abandoned again.
She saw the fear that if they started caring for someone, that person would disappear like their mother.
"I know how much you miss your mom," Eleanor said softly, stepping carefully over the broken toys, not stepping on anything. "But I'm not here to replace her. I'm here because I know what it's like when everything falls apart."
The children froze.
No one spoke.
No one threw anything.
The room seemed to stop for a moment.
A few seconds.
Jud closed his eyes, his voice rising.
"You know nothing about this house."
Eleanor sat up slowly, looking into his eyes.
"You're right. I don't know everything yet... but I know you're scared, angry, thinking that if you're bad enough, I'll disappear like the others."
The children's hardened gazes began to waver.
Tesa bit her lip, and Lilia tightened her grip on her broken porcelain doll.
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