Abigail didn’t know herself why she got her courage this night, she didn’t fear his face, and chose to look right into his eyes. She could see that he was shooting fire towards her from those furious eyes, but, she was not afraid!
She wasn’t only not afraid, in this moment, she felt her baby kick in her stomach, and she felt as if she had moral assistance. She wasn’t alone anymore, she had her kid with her, and it was going to grow. She smiled coldly at him, and it had all the sarcasm with it.
“Mister Caunter is such a great man, why would he choose to satisfy his sexual needs with a slave, and why would he ask her to play his dead lover, this is really hilarious. I wish I could tell it to the whole world, let them see how helpless you actually are!”
She wanted to get him mad.
And this time, she did it.
Joshua’s already dark eyes were now cold as ice, shooting darkness out of them, as if he wanted to get through her tiny body with it. His fists were clenched so tight that it started making noise, then, he put them on her throat.
“Kill me, please!”
She said to him, inviting him to do so, her little hand was put on his hands, helping him to add force to his hands.
If this is going to be her end, let him kill her, at least she still had her baby. It was destiny that the child would never grow up in a family with love, so let it be killed by it’s own father, it wouldn’t matter anyways.
She was suffering because of Joshua’s hands, her breath was going faster, indicating that her life was getting lost, but, her red face had a smile on it, so big, as if she was really happy.
Joshua didn’t understand, a woman who was always warm and nice, was not so stubborn!
He shook his head, when he saw the joy on her face.
Her smile was pain in his eyes, and he got even more angry, but he couldn’t do anything to this woman in front of him. He took his hands off her neck, and Abigail fell on the bed.
“Hahahaha…” She was still laughing, so much that she had tears running down her face, her laugh was like knifes stabbing his heart. She pointed with her long thin fingers at him and warned him, “Try to never touch me again!”
“What do you think you are!” Joshua said to her, he was going to make her feel really tiny, “You are just a tool for me to keep my bed warm, the only reason why I have sex with you is because I feel sorry for you! Have you forgotten? You scream so loud when you are on me, like a real whore! Okay then, now I got enough of you, and you can go!”
He kicked the glass table in the room, and the glass broke, the splits flew across the room, the noise was hurting in Abigail’s ears. The glass didn’t really break on the floor, but in her heart, stabbing it.
She watched Joshua leave angrily, and on her face was sadness, tears were running down her face, making her clothes wet, making her heart wet…
Baby, let it be like this, if you were destined to have no love. You might never see your father again, but you also will never get hurt again, mommy is going to protect you, with her life!
She wrapped her arms around her small baby bump, and closed her eyes, all her emotions were dropping down in tears.
Annie just went through a lot of shame in that room, and she didn’t have the chance yet to pay it back to Abigail, when she received another bad news.
Nowadays, all kinds of media were talking about Joshua’s new love, a model named Harry, who was now being watched by the whole journalism world.
She knew Harry, who appeared often on magazines and pictures, she was really sexy, and a wild woman.
But she was shameless to get involved with a engaged man, they were appearing in public as a couple, and she looked really good and in love too, Annie was so angry, that she ripped the paper in small pieces.
On the other half of the picture was Joshua, his hand was on Harry’s waist, and when Annie ripped the picture, he in the picture lost his right hand. He still looked like the elegant, cold person, a man of less words, who was so handsome that her heart skipped a beat.
This man, was hers! She had the picture tight in her hand, as if she was showing her powers.
That night Joshua appeared to have had a fight with Abigail, just when she was crying in her room, she heard the loud voices from next door, and then, Joshua never came back, and Abigail was quiet as well.
It seems, they are having problems.
This was actually a good thing, and Annie was going to use this as her chance, but now, there was this Harry!
So angry!
What made her even more angry was, she loved Joshua ever since she was a kid, but he never looked at her! That night, she thought she was called into the room so that he would show Abigail, but she never thought she would be kicked out just as fast!
She cried for almost half of the night, and even now, she was still sad about it.
She almost forgot about Bill’s warning, and was thinking about a plan to get back to Abigail, but, she could not allow herself to make it happen yet.
But this Harry, she needs to be put back to her own place.
Stacy was coming from the backyard, a few days ago, she was held there by Lambert, and she was taught by a private English tutor, she never had the time to just take a walk, and it bummed her.
Her brother wanted her to go and study abroad, that’s why she had to study English, but there would be no one to take care of her when she left home, so she had to get the language fluent in a short time period, just in case she might actually need something.
Only god knew how she hated this kind of stuff, and on top of that, she was so used to being pampered, and being served by others, but now she was going to be alone, so far away from home, and she was really really scared about it.
Now, the only thing she could do was to behave better, not to make more trouble, and to hope that Joshua is going to let it go, seeing that she was still his little sister.
She was so used to a life surrounded by everything she needed, having food and drinks brought to her, she would never make it to live on her own, and to take her of her own things.
Joshua has also hired a designer, who would work with her on her dressing, she was not allowed to wear those short sexy dresses anymore, and had to change them into suits that fitted her own age.
The long dress was covering her ankles, and her hair was combed to one side, she looked much more mature now. And now that she also stopped putting on as much make-up as she used to, her pretty face finally showed, and she looked much prettier, just like the rest of the Caunter family.
Annie saw her from the corner of her eye, and took a few big steps towards her, pulling her hand.
“Stacy, how have you been these days? I really wanted to visit you, but I was afraid your brother would find out, and punish you even more. Did he beat you? Did he punish you?”
Stacy was happy that she could see Annie, and smiled, shaking her head, “No. I haven’t seen a magazine in so long, I wanna check what is new in the world.”
Actually, she just wanted to see what was new with Bill, this teenage girl was hopelessly in love with him, to a point that she could not pull herself out anymore.
She took the magazine that was on the table, and quickly started going through it, but she didn’t find anything about him, instead, she saw the picture of her brother.
“Hm? Annie, have you and Joshua had trouble these days?” She looked at the woman next to him and asked her.
“Hmm, yeah.”
She couldn’t do anything but to admit to her.
“I think I know her, she is a model and her name is Harry.” Stacy could tell from the few pictures that were left. “Joshua usually wouldn’t see the same girl twice, but it was different with her, she came to our house twice.”
The girl on the side of Joshua would usually change, but only Harry has appeared several times, and it was always in public. This is what Annie was worried about.
“Do you know her?” Annie asked her carefully.
“Of course.” Stacy shook the hair on her head like a boy, and said, “I hate all the girls except for Michelle, so, every time I would find different ways to get rid of them. This Harry would come most often, and she got the beats more often as well, but, my brother never used to to yell at me for it, except for Abig…”
She didn’t finish her sentence, raised her head and looked towards Abigail’s room, not satisfied.
“So, do you know how to help me? Look, I want to be with your brother because my cousin died, I want to comfort him, but now, this woman… we are already engaged!”
Annie said to Stacy, making herself look like a good person, and trying to get Stacy’s pity.
Even though Stacy didn’t like Harry, but she was so scared of being pushed away from home, and she was still looking for a chance to beg her brother not to send her off, so she couldn’t allow herself to act out. She shook her head and said apologetic to Annie, “Sorry Annie I rally cannot help you this time, I need to take care of myself, sorry, I need to go back and study.”
“You…” Annie didn’t expect that Stacy wouln’t help her now, and she clenched her fists, worried about herself.
…
In the TV, Harry was looking happily, and standing elegantly in the mall, on her side was Joshua, his hand was around her waist, and the journalist cameras were clicking their pictures.
Abigail hasn’t seen him for a few days, but he was still as handsome as before, still has distanced and cold, Abigail actually wanted to switch to another channel, but Mrs. Caunter stopped her, and took the remote.
“Joshua, my Joshua is on the TV! He is so handsome!”
Joshua raised his dark eyes, and even though he was in the TV, Abigail could feel the ice cold temperature in them, He was used to keep quiet when the journalists would ask any questions, and they would run after him to keep asking as well, bombing him with all kinds of questions.
“Mister Caunter, you barely appear with a girl in public, it is an honor to get a picture with you and Miss Harry, does that mean that you and Harry are a couple?”
“Mister Caunter, didn’t you make your engagement with Miss Annie public a while ago, is that true?”
“Mister Caunter and Harry, you are shopping together, aren’t you afraid that your fiance is going to be jealous?”
“You and Miss Annie have barely appeared in public together, is there a problem betwee you two? Or do you not want Annie to appear on magazines and other media too much?”
“Mister Caunter, how do you feel about Miss Annie? We heard that you had a secret girlfriend before, and you even were about to get married, is it Miss Annie? Or Miss Harry? Or another woman?”
“Why didn’t you get married yet?”
“As far as we know, there is a woman called Michelle, who has appeared in your life, but you kept her secret pretty well, we never had a picture of her, do you love this woman?”
The journalist’s questions made Joshua’s mood sink pretty low, he felt as if they put all his private matters public, and he was clearly angry now.
“Why are they talking about Michelle again, I don’t like this. Hmm, why is he hugging that woman?” Granny had finally noticed his hand around Harry’s waist, and said unhappily.
“That’s not happening, I am going to him now, he is not listening to my words, the only girl he can have is Abigail.” Mrs. Caunter threw the remote away, and was walking to the door.
“Granny, no!” Abigail tried to pull her back, but she was already in the living room, yelling, “Rowena, take me to Joshua!”
“No, Granny, don’t go!” Abigail was worried about her health, and Rowena was now standing in front of them.
“Rowena, could you talk to Mrs. Caunter please, she wants to go to… Mister Caunter.” Abigail asked Rowena for help.