The next morning, Lucas left the villa early and headed to the company. Victoria was in the midst of a pleasant sleep when there was a knock on her door, repeatedly waking her up. She got up to see who was knocking and saw a servant holding a vacuum.
The servant, noticing Victoria had just woken up, “Living the good life? The master said you would help with the chores in the villa, hurry up and get dressed,” she said in a commanding tone before handing her some clothes, “Use this vacuum once you’re dressed, go out and clean the entire ground floor,” she added before turning and leaving. Victoria examined the clothes given to her and went into the room to change.
When she came out, wearing the maid outfit, she took the vacuum, from the second floor where she was staying, she saw the vast expanse of the ground floor she had to clean, feeling a bit overwhelmed, she descended with a frown before starting to clean the floor.
Not even halfway through, she already felt fatigue from the size of the villa. She sat down briefly to rest when a servant approached her, speaking rudely, “Hey girl, what are you doing just sitting there? Can’t you see all of us are working but you’re just sitting around?”
The servant who approached was the head of the household staff, who had long harbored feelings for the master. When she saw Victoria, she thought she was a threat to the master’s affections due to her beautiful face, well-shaped body, and perfect figure. She wanted this woman gone as soon as possible since the master had not forbidden them from treating her badly.
Victoria looked at the grumpy woman, about to explain that she just wanted to rest for a moment when the woman suddenly pulled her hair. The sudden pull caused her to lose her balance, and she stumbled. “You are so clumsy, clean up and stop sitting here!” the servant said in a gruff tone.
Victoria was about to stand up when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her right hand. “Ah,” she cried out in pain before she saw the servant woman stomp on her right hand. She tried to push the servant away, holding her injured hand, and getting ready to stand up.
The servant did not like Victoria’s resistance, so she became angry. She grabbed Victoria’s hair and dragged her, Victoria tried to resist but due to exhaustion, she had almost no strength left to fight. The servant dragged her to the comfort room, pushed her into the bathtub, and two other servants approached.
“Drown her!” ordered the leader of the servants to the other two.
Victoria was weak and her hair was in disarray, two servants approached her and held her by the arms, one servant opened the water and slowly the water rose in the bathtub.
Seeing that the water was enough, they submerged Victoria in the water as if drowning a dog. Victoria could not resist the strength of the two people, she could do nothing but accept what was being done to her. She was very weak and could not fight back until she lost consciousness.
“Miss, she fainted,” a servant said to the leader.
“Tch!” She grinned, “Bring her to me,” she ordered.
Immediately, the two servants brought the unconscious face of Victoria to the woman.
Slap!
A strong slap hit the unconscious face of Victoria, “Tch! She won’t wake up,” the leader said before slapping Victoria again. Victoria received more than ten slaps before she woke up. Her mouth was bleeding and her face swollen from the strong slap.
“You will wake up after all,” angrily said the leader before spitting on Victoria’s face.
Victoria was feeling extremely weak and her face was numb, “What have I done to you?” she asked in a faint voice.
“You haven’t done anything wrong to me, your only fault is coming here and seducing the master!” She said in an angry tone as he glared at Victoria
“Drown her!” He commanded again.
The two nodded and immediately drowned Victoria in the bathtub. Victoria was too weak to do anything but cry, ‘Brother Luca, where are you, I hope you save me again,’ she whispered to herself as her tears continued to fall.
…
In the chairman’s office of Luca Group, Lucas was seated, examining some papers, when his secretary entered and handed him some documents. “Boss, here are the information I gathered about your wife,” she said.
“Who is my wife?” Lucas asked coldly as he reached for the documents.
The assistant just smiled, “Boss, based on the information I gathered, Ms. Victoria should not be your fiancee but the eldest child of the Casella family. However, the eldest daughter of the Casellas refused because they think you are poor and live in the countryside,” the assistant explained.
Lucas seemed confused. “What do you mean the eldest of the Casellas? Isn’t Victoria their eldest?” he inquired.
The assistant shook her head. “Ms. Victoria is just an adopted child of the Casellas. 18 years ago, the Casella couple didn’t have children of their own. They found Ms. Victoria, only seven years old at the time, in a place near an old movie theater, with no memory of her past except her name, Victoria.”
“Months later, the young Casella lady got pregnant and gave birth to their eldest daughter. Since then, they treated Victoria like a dog, ignoring her in the family and viewing her simply as a servant. She suffered hardships from her mother and abuse from her father, unable to go to school because they didn’t care for her.”
“So you mean she was just used, because they thought I was poor like my grandfather?” Lucas asked.
The assistant nodded. “Yes, that’s why they used Victoria; they just saw her as a tool, lower than a maid. When she was young, she would often sell goods outside to buy food for herself because they wouldn’t feed her when they decided not to give her any.”
“Ms. Victoria was unaware that you are rich, but she did not hesitate to marry you even though her mother said that you are poor and living in the middle of a field.”
“She doesn’t know that you are wealthy because she doesn’t know who you are since she is unaware of the world; she don’t use a TV and she also doesn’t have a cellphone. Her only pastime is with the chickens because they are her companions in sleep.” he added.
“But what happened at the hotel? Did you investigate?” Lucas asked again.
“She just accompanied her sibling to the hotel; it was her first time going to such a high-end place so she was ignorant. She didn’t know her sister drugged her to be mocked and used by different men, but she managed to escape,” the assistant paused and gestured towards Lucas and Victoria.
“Shameless, Casellas will pay for what they did!” Lucas angrily stated, “Not because of what they did to Victoria, but because I was dragged into their foolishness,” he continued with the intention to kill.
“By the way, Ms. Victoria has a talent in jewelry designing; some of her designs are like those of a top-notch designer,” the assistant added.
‘It seems I misunderstood Victoria,’ thought Lucas.
“Where did she learn to design jewelry?” Lucas asked again.
The assistant shook her head, “It’s not clear. She started designing when she was in high school, selling her designs to others, thinking they just liked her designs. She used the money to graduate high school, but her foster parent found out, so she couldn’t go to college and her savings were taken away,” the assistant said.
“She managed to finish high school by studying in secret and through her own abilities, but her sister stole her remaining designs before selling them at a high price to others,” the assistant added.
At that moment, Lucas’s phone rang, and he became angry as he heard the other side’s words.
“Prepare the car!” he said angrily before storming out of the office.