Chapter 128
She carried them to their room and helped them take their bath. After that, she helped them lay on their bed. She told them a bedtime story till they drifted to sleep. By the time she was done, she was already exhausted.
She stood up from the chair she was sitting on and moved towards her daughters who were asleep. She kissed their forehead and walked out of the room.
She walked inside her room and locked the door. She then sat on the ground and put her hands on her head as tears slipped down her cheeks. Memories of everything Alfred did to her came running into her head like flash.
How it had all started, the ambush, how her mom was killed by her uncle. How she was sold out and Alfred had told her she was paying for her father’s sin even though she had no clue then, of what her father did to him.
He tortured her and made life a living hell for her. She never thought she would survive but she did and now when she thought she was never going to see him again when she thought she and her children were going to be happy, he showed up.
When she thought she was finally letting go of her past and moving on, he shows out of the blue bringing back those traumatized memories, and worst of all she had seen her kids playing with him, that monster, she thought.
She still couldn’t believe it was him she saw. He had made her remember the past and she almost hurt her daughter. Must he make her life miserable and make things go wrong for her, she thought.
Isabella had told her she met him at the restaurant, and she began to wonder what he wanted this time. Had he known about her and the restaurant and her kids? Had he come to find her so he could make life miserable for her again but he was wrong, Lisa thought.
She’s no longer the weak woman he had made life miserable for years ago. She’s different now, she’s strong now, she will make him pay and fight him back even though it means death. She will do just anything to protect her kids.
She sighed softly and stood up from the ground. She brought out her phone wondering if she should call Daniel but ok a second thought, she dropped her phone on her bed. She wasn’t going to call him. This is her fight and she will fight it alone.
She walked inside the bathroom and removed her clothes, she took a cold bath and walked out of the bathroom with a towel tied around her chest.
She stood in front of her dressing mirror and let go of the towel. She was now standing naked in front of the mirror. She stared at her reflection in the mirror.
She stared at the scars on her body. She remembered the day Alfred had beaten the hell out of her. She touched the scars on her stomach. “I’ll never forgive you for this Alfred, Never,” she thought as tears gathered in her eyes.
She moved away from the mirror and lay on the bed naked covering herself up with the duvet. She sighed softly as she stared at the ceiling, a lot of thoughts going through her mind. She closed her eyes and drifted to sleep.
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Meanwhile, after Alfred had gotten to the motel. He said Mr. Luke goodbye because he was the one who dropped him off. He walked inside his motel room and locked his door and sat on the bed.
He couldn’t believe he had seen Lisa. He thought it was a dream but he realized it was her. It was Lisa. She was alive. He didn’t know what to think anymore. He was still in shock.
And the kids, they had called Lisa mommy. Does that mean Lisa is the mother of those kids and they’re his? Is that the reason they have the same eyes as his? He asked no one in particular
He had first met Isabella in the restaurant, does that mean Lisa owns the restaurant too? He had a lot of thoughts and questions going in his mind and he needed answers.
He didn’t know if he should feel happy or sad that he had finally seen Lisa after all these years. He sighed softly and sat on the ground. If eyes could kill Lisa, eyes would have killed him the moment she saw him. He had seen the shock in Lisa’s eyes when he saw but there was something else he saw. Hatred.
The hatred was so real and raw that she would kill him instantly if she was given a gun. He could feel her hatred towards him, he could sense it. He felt so sad. He had never seen that kind of hatred before.
He deserved to be hated after everything he did to her. After all the torture and everything. It’s all his fault, he blamed himself as tears gathered in his eyes.
He wished he could undo everything he had done and do something different but he couldn’t because it was already too late. Lisa would never forgive him for what he did. She hated him so much. Tears slipped down his cheeks.
He regrets everything he’s done to her. He wiped his tears and lay on the ground a lot of thoughts going through his mind.
He was so lost in thoughts that he didn’t know his phone was ringing. Andrew had given him six missed calls and he didn’t know.
He closed his eyes and suddenly drifted to sleep.
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It was morning again and Lisa had woken up so early. She prepared breakfast for her kids and packaged their lunch boxes.
She went upstairs to their room and woke them up. She helps them take their bath and get dressed for school.
She served them their breakfast at the dining table and asked them to eat while she went upstairs and got dressed for work.
By the time she was done getting dressed the kids had already finished breakfast.
She carried their lunch boxes and bags and put them in the car and the children entered the car too. She dropped them at school and then zoomed off to work.
Today was the funding party day, she needed to get to the restaurant in time to make sure everything was okay and well arranged.
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