But when he started his own business after his parents' deaths, the inn was close to dereliction. He had worked hard to repair it and keep it going. And to finally be able to hire a few maids to help him around. By the time the inn started to look respectable enough, he realized he was already 30 years old and he had no family. As the years went by he started to care less and less about that until he didn’t care at all. Now he was in his early fifties and had become greedy for money. If he didn’t have a family, at least he thought to have money. Money had become the sole purpose of his life. He had become malicious and rude to his employees and nobody loved him, on the contrary. Old Jim, as he was called, was a sturdy man, used to labor. He worked just as much as his three employees, two young women and a young man.
Isabella, one of the two maids, was almost 24 years old and had a six year old daughter, Samantha and no husband. She had been working for Jim since she was 17 and rumor has it she got pregnant while working for Jim there with one of the guests. Jim didn’t have the heart to throw her out and even allowed her to keep her baby as long as she worked for him for less pay than his two other employees. She had to make up for the food and shelter Old Jim had to give to her daughter, Samantha, so she agreed of course as there was no better opportunity for her. Isabella was grateful that she still had a roof above her head. And that she could keep her baby as no one else would have hired her in her condition, with an infant to take care of. On the other hand, she never wanted to reveal her lover's identity and after a while nobody even cared anymore. She was just glad she still had a job so she could support herself and Sam, her daughter.
The other woman was a slender red-headed, somewhat beautiful, a bit older than Isabella, called Maria. And the young man working for Jim was a bit daft, he was not in his right mind, he had some mental issues. But at least Tom wasn't dangerous, on the contrary, he was