The Maid – Part 1

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Mr. Gold/Lacey French, Rated Mature

[AO3]

Summary: After Mr. Gold’s housekeeper retires, he seeks a cleaning service to take care of his house. He unexpectedly calls a lingerie maid service who sends him Lacey.

Note: This is what happens when I spend almost 4 hours cleaning my house shirtless because I was a gross sweaty mess after the first five minutes. This could easily become a thing. There will be a part 2.
Unbeta’d so all mistakes are mine, feel free to point them out.

Gold sighed and flipped through the directory, frowning.

Since Ms. Potts had retired almost a month ago, it had gotten harder and harder for him to keep up with things around the house. It wasn’t as if he left the kitchen an unholy mess just making tea, and he really only used four rooms in the whole house, but things still needed dusting, vacuuming, or scrubbing. It was more that he was capable of doing on a regular basis with a leg and the hours he kept at his shop.

His finger trailed down the page, recognizing a couple of company names as ones that he’d used for janitorial services at some of his properties. Those were fine for storefronts and the hallways outside apartments, but they weren’t what he was seeking. Then his eyes landed on an ad for a residential maid service. The ad itself was, well, a bit obnoxious and overdone in pink, but the description said they were very thorough and discreet.

He smiled and dialed the number.

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