Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Moreover, Alexis voice this early morning was causing even Linda to gradually became so scared, she felt so timid under Alexis draconic voice and dominance. Left with no option, Linda decides to use the whip again.

But Alexis was past her usual self on this day, in a quick succession, she caught the end of the whip using the same rod again, she wait for a few seconds and the while coiled around the rod all again, she use that to draw Linda to herself. Linda who was a Lady all her life, thus had no idea about sturdiness, she also pulled towards Alexis.

Just as Linda pulled towards Alexis, at the same time she make a stunt, while in the air she used her leg to smashed Linda in the head, Linda was supposed to fell under such kick from an expert like Alexis. But Alexis was not done with Linda.

Since both Linda and Alexis were holding the end of the whip and the rod, Alexis pulled Linda towards herself once again, because a distance was created, Linda pulled towards Alexis once again, in anger, Alexis held her right fist, she smashed an uppercut at Linda jaw, Linda flew to the air, and she landed and smashed her head on the glass table, which broke into pieces.

It was then that Linda was able to make a single sound, because all the assault was all between five seconds. Linda can only groaned, but she can’t do anything against Alexis, she was hurt beyond she could take it.

“I should have done this for a long time, because I felt so relieved.”

Alexis finally hissed, she let go of the rod in her hand, she turned around and head back into the same store, which had served as her room for as long as she can remembered. She began to rummage every place, she found her mobile phone first, she looked around and found her purse laying somewhere around the corner, it contained her daily earning from the restaurant she work at.

Actually Alexis was a waiter at a reputable restaurant in the city, and she was paid a thousand dollar everyday, and as a bonus she always had a three square meal before closing, thus she never bothered about food, because she always have her filled everyday, all she was concerned about was to just head back home, then she paid two hundred dollars to her stepmother for her daily house rent, the remaining eight hundred dollar she always keep it, her aim was proceed to the university.

Alexis life had never been a bed of rose. Well she was born into a prominent family, in fact, in the whom federation, her father was the most successful man, her mother also had her own business too, but the couple trusted one another so much, such that they run one account, there fore the supply from Alexis mother pushed the father asset up to a top notch.

Only that the tragedy struck about ten years ago, the couple are found dead in their own home, the cause of death was good poisoning, and that was the beginning of a hard life for Alexis, the death of her lovely parent gave birth to an endless hardship in her life.

Linda, who was her step mother ensured that life became a living hell for the little girl, she gradually became the house girl. Alexis was just a girl of about fifteen years then, since she was left with no other option, she put up with everything that her step mothtt put ahead of her.

She was withdrawn from school, so that Linda can gully utilized her. But then in the course of everyday beating and errands running, Alexis ran into a luck, she was able to helped an old Chinese man.

The old man loved Alexis innocence, with his sharp eyes he can see what the little girl was passing through, thus the old man taught her everything called Karate and K****u. Because Alexis was also a little girl, she was able to learn very quickly, after seven years of rigorous training, Alexis became an expert, in fact she once fought her master and defeated him.

Alexis master didn’t just taught her Karate, she also her ancient Chinese healing method, especially Acupuncture, Alexis also learned this in a quick succession too. But then again, the old man bone began to failed him, until he finally gave up the ghost, but then before his death, he gifted Alexis his Acupuncture needles, she also gave to her a token, which Alexis does not understand its significance, yet she took it, finally the old man blessed her and he died.

The old man death was a big blow to Alexis, she was already twenty two years old when her master died, because she had nowhere to go again, she had tan away from home for seven years, because her thought was that she would be with her master forever, but destiny had its way of playing with someone life.

Alexis had no option than returned to her father home, but that was another round of suffering for her, yet she took everything it, all because of her seven years rigorous training, both in physical and mental strength. Some month later, she got her work at a restaurant as a waiter.

Since she had an ambition, Alexis took the job. Thus she bargained with her stepmother, since then she had been paying two hundred dollar as house rent everyday, coupled with the task of cleaning the whole surroundings, she accept the terms gladly. That was about three years ago

Alexis bring out all her saving, she counted it and it totaled closed to Six hundred thousand dollars, she bring out her bag and pack the money into it, she placed the few cloth she had inside the same bag. Finally she walked out of the room.

Meanwhile Linda was still in pain, few Karate expert could take the strike that Alexis dealt on Linda, and would still be able to walk unscathed, but Linda was only a Lady, she had no single endurance at all. Thus the beating from Alexis dealt a sharp pain to every part of her body, especially her neck, Head, back and buttock.

Alexis walked out of the room, she stopped abruptly. "You can eat the house if you wish to, because I have it up here already, and I can’t take it any longer. So I am leaving the house for you and your miserable daughter, because I don’t care again." Alexis said all together.

She finally found her phone and dial a number, it rang for a moment and the other option end picked up. “Hello, if I am speaking to the emergency service. An endless emergency issue just happened here at Orange Pavilion.”

Without waiting for the other end to sat anything in reply, Alexis hang up, she power off the phone and removed the line, then she destroyed it and threw the pieces away. When all is done, she stormed out of the building.

Once outside Alexis looked back at the building once again, the building which embodied her parent sweat and toils, and it was once a lovely place for her, this place was once the place she had a lot if sweet memories together with her parent. But then this same place had the most trauma for her, this is the building she both love and loathed at the same time.

Alexis almost shed tears as she looked back at the building, but she summoned courage, she turned around and walked away, her master last word keep ringing in her head.