The Housemaid's Wedding

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Millie is the protagonist and the primary point-of-view character of the story. She is in her early thirties and has spent the last few years working as a housemaid for wealthy families. Through her work, she has helped women escape physically and emotionally abusive relationships. Now, she is attending school to become a social worker. She met her fiancé, Enzo, three years ago while working for the Winchester family. On the day of her wedding, she repeatedly receives threatening phone calls from an unknown man. She convinces herself that they are nothing to worry about, assuming that it is the ex-husband of one of the women she saved from her abusive marriage. 

Central to Millie’s character is her strength and resilience. As the story opens with her receiving a death threat over the phone, she responds with anger and dismissal. Then, as the threats continue, she contemplates telling Enzo or going to the police, yet each time, she convinces herself that she is capable of handling it on her own. Given her past, in which she has taken down abusive men to save trapped women, she can clearly protect herself even when physical violence is involved.