“Good morning Alita” a strange woman greeted Alita with a plate of hot prochetta and orange juice.
The woman strode to Alita, pulled the duvet off her body, and placed the food near her. She walked to Lu’s wardrobe and came out later with a white dress. Her face frowned when she see Alita didn’t move.
“My name is Mia,” she said dryly “I am your new helper”
She looked elderly, like in her early fifties. Her uniform is quite a bit old school same as her sandals. Her nails were painted Deep green and she had tattoos at the side of her neck and arms.
Mia waited a little hoping Alita would answer but the girl did not move, she just lay still like she was lifeless but blinking.
“If I don’t get to dress you on time, Master Lu would get me fired” Mia pleaded “please get up and eat, you need to follow him in the next thirty minutes” she added as she cut a piece of the meat and try to feed Alita.
Alita sat up on the bed, she stared at the woman from head to toe in silence and kept moving her mouth when Mia offered to feed her. Lazily she stood up and walked away, she went to the bathroom and spent thirty minutes in it. On coming out, she meets Lu yelling at the woman.
“You know how I do with time Mia” Lu yelled “I gave you one simple assignment, is that too hard to do?” He tilted his head and waited for her response.
“I did try to make her eat but she refused,” Mia said, she bowed.
Mia lean close as Lu had gestured, not long after then, she rushed out of the room after Lu had whispered something to her.
Hate and fear filled Alita’s body as she stood still staring at Lu, her eyes in his surprise grey eyes as she stared at him like he is from another planet. She stepped in her pants with the towel still around her wet body as she wore the cloth she had removed.
She climbed back unto the bed and made herself comfortable. Her legs crossed the same as her palm under her head.
From head to toe, Lu is fully dressed in a fine white Italian suit, he has a white matching glove and white shoes. He looked at his watch as if calculating time wasted and sigh.
“I leave you to choose,” he said dryly “Eat your food, get dressed and apply some makeup in the next extra 20 minutes or fail and get punished for one hour” he smirked.
Alita stared at him in awe, slowly she moved off the sleeping position, took four bites from her meal, and attempt to wear her clothes.
“Eat more” Lu ordered.
“I am full,” she said arrogantly and stood up.
“Disobey me and your punishment last for three days” was his simple reply and he went to seat calmly on the couch.
Alita swallowed. The last thing she wants is to get to his nerves, at least not in this lifetime. Two days ago he had brutally raped her, each morning after, he would ask her to strip naked in front of him for five minutes.
Since she was too scared to be punished, she did eventually everything he says and get to be alone for the rest of the day. But today seems to want to be different, and as she didn’t want to get punished, she rather goes with what he wants.
She made sure to eat almost half of the food even when she wasn’t hungry and almost throw up after each chew. She drank from the juice and dressed herself in the white dress. She combed her hair back, climbed onto the white silver heel kept for her, and walked to him after applying her makeup.
“It’s 24 minutes but I will forgive,” Lu said, he showed her his palm and she slipped hers in it “Good girl” he cooed.
All through the ride, Alita would glance at Lu, whenever he turned to her, she would be fast to look away.
From the corner of her eyes, she noticed him bring out a small box from his pocket and open it, revealing the bloody diamond necklace.
“Please!” Her lips quivered “It hurts when you use the button”
Lu’s face look emotionless as usual as he unclipped the hook and looked at her. Like an obedient pet, she moved closer, her back at him with her hair up.
“Please don’t hurt me today” She sniffed.
Lu’s hard gaze softened, he placed his palm on her cheek and caress her lips with his thumb. Their gaze lock for a while as many things began to run through his mind.
Two days ago he had raped her, he never indeed to do it, and he regrets it now. Her body was just too tempting and he only wanted to play with her. It hurt his pride when she rejected him, comparing him to Rocco. And that was it, he couldn’t get to hit her or hit Rocco, the only thing he could do to make her never talk about Rocco to him is what he did.
“Why do you think I will hurt you?” Lu asked, his facial expression mute as he stared into the thin air.
From the corner of his eyes, he could see Alita shook and that suddenly gave him another kind of feeling. Lu had never been a man of feelings, although there are some things he extremely loves. Things he wouldn’t joke with.
Lu wouldn’t try to Joke about his daughter Amara, even though he never gives her the attention she deserves. She is always out of the country for holiday with people she barely knows, when she comes back to Italy, he makes her do her school work and never to keep friends.
Another thing he cares about is getting a male child that would take over him one day. Since he was still a kid, he had long for the day his son would bear the family mark and take over the business. He loves the business just as he loves his unborn son and he can do anything for them both.
The last thing he cares about is a woman, the strongest woman of all time. The painful part is that no matter how hard he tries to ignore her, her charming flaws intoxicate his brain and stop him front thinking.
‘I must keep her!’ He always says to himself.
And that’s what he finds himself doing! He ends up keeping Alita more than the required time because he is obsessed with her!
He sees her as his obsession.