Chapter 6

Nathan dragged Becky outside from the mansion, and she sobbed and begged him, "Please, sir, don't throw me out. I don't have anywhere to go too, please, Nathan..."

Becky cried, and Nathan replied, "I'm sorry, small madam, but I cannot help you now. You have to leave this house."

Nathan was also worried as he didn't know what Becky had done. He had seen her when she returned home and ran back speedily into the house, and now she was sobbing heavily, and Mrs. Gina ordered him to throw her outside.

Becky begged, "Please don't throw me out. This is my father's house. I don't have anywhere else to go, please."

Nathan let go of Becky's hands and raked his short black hair in frustration. He is a dark-skinned man and was of average height.

Mrs. Gina stepped out from the mansion and questioned, "Nathan! Is that witch still outside?"

Nathan stared at Becky in fright and pulled the gate open as he replied, "No, madam. I have sent her outside."

Nathan wasn't yet ready to lose his job, and he opened the gate and told Becky to leave.

Mia stepped out too from the mansion and followed her mother as they walked toward the gate.

Mrs. Gina asked, "Then who am I seeing there at the gate? That is still standing at the gate with you, Nathan? I said throw her outside now!"

Mrs. Gina stepped down from the mansion's frontage and rushed to the gate.

She met Becky and Nathan at the gate, and she used both hands to push Becky outside from the house gate completely and said, "Get out! And don't let me see you here again. Else I will kill you myself for daring to poison my daughter and me. Leave!"

Nathan frustratingly stood in silence, watching them.

Tears flooded from Becky's eyes as she knelt and begged her stepmother, "Please, ma, I don't have anywhere else to go. You cannot throw me out tonight. It's late..."

Becky cried, even as she knew the estate was heavily guarded with security men; she was still scared of the bad boys lurking around not to defile her privacy.

Mrs. Gina asked, "And how is that my concern? Why didn't you think of the bad boys living around when you dared to poison my daughter and me? Nathan!" Mrs. Gina called.

Nathan immediately appeared by her side, "Yes, madam."

Mrs. Gina said, "Lock this gate back, and if I dare to see her inside this compound again, I will arrest you both and jail you for attempting to kill my daughter and me. Lock this gate now!"

Nathan immediately shut the gate closed on Becky, and she stood up from the floor and rushed to the gate, banging on it heavily, screaming out, "Nathan! Open this gate!! Please!.. Don't lock me out! No!"

Becky sobbed as she banged heavily on the gate, but Nathan had already locked it from within.

Mrs. Gina said, "Nonsense!.. Nathan, don't ever open this gate for her again or let her into this compound ever again! Is that understood?"

Nathan shakily replied, "Yes, madam!"

Nathan was a 35-year-old black man and really needed his gateman job to take care of his family and new wife at home, as he couldn't risk losing his job even as he pitied Becky.

He had a pregnant wife at home with two kids, and he sighed and walked back to the gatehouse while Mrs. Gina and Mia went back into the mansion.

Mia asked her mother, "Mom, what are we going to eat tonight?"

Mia knew that she was the one who had ruined the soup by adding too much salt into the delicious soup that Becky had suffered and prepared.

She knew that her mother wouldn't question her if what Becky had said was true, as her mother would always pick her side and flog Becky mercilessly.

Mrs. Gina scolded, "Why did you spoil the soup? I know Becky didn't add too much salt into that soup. Do you know how much the soup ingredients cost in the market now?"

Mia frowned as she hadn't expected that her mother would scold her.

Mrs. Gina said, "You will be the one cooking from today onward as your punishment. Now follow me into the kitchen. You won't waste all the meat in that soup that Becky had cooked. After you finish removing all the meats one by one from the soup pot, then you will wash it out thoroughly and re-cook it tonight. Silly girl."

Mia frowned as she followed her mother back into the kitchen.

Upon getting into the kitchen, Mrs. Gina was slightly nervous for throwing Becky outside as it was already 10 p.m.

She knew that the estate security agents would question her the following day once they saw Becky outside at such a late hour and knew that she had thrown Becky out.

Mrs. Gina yelled, "Remove all the meats quickly!"

Mia shuddered in fright and started removing the cooked meat from the soup pot after washing her hands thoroughly when she stepped into the kitchen with her mother.

Mrs. Gina stood aside, watching Mia take out all the meats carefully from the pot of soup until Mia was done. She re-washed the meat again and started cooking it as their dinner.

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Becky cried and banged on the gate of her late father's mansion heavily, but Nathan didn't pull the gate open for her.

She was still in her light blue gown and had been wearing it since morning.

Becky shivered, feeling the cold night wind blowing on her smooth, soft, delicate skin and sending shivers down her spine.

Her eyes were already filled with hot tears, and she thought to walk up to the estate gate and report her stepmother to the security men standing there.

Becky knew that even though she reported her stepmother to the estate security men, it wouldn't make her stepmother change her wicked attitude toward her, and she wrapped her arms around her chest as she walked toward the estate gate.

Becky saw two men walking along the other side of the road and calling out to her.

She stared at them and saw them crossing the road, as one of them called her, "Hey pretty lady, what's up with you?"

Becky immediately ran away and took to her heels, even as she was barefooted. She ran as fast as her slim legs could carry her body weight.

One of the two guys shouted after her, "Wait pretty! Where are you running to?"

Becky didn't stop nor turn back to look at them as she ran faster toward the estate gate. Even though the estate gate was still far ahead of her and it was already late at night.

She continued running and, seeing a red car approaching her, she slowed down and thought to beg the car driver to take her to the estate gate, as she believed that the car owner would be living around inside their estate too, and maybe a good Samaritan.

Earlier... Justin Robert had gone to one of his favorite hangout places, the club in Lemonhill town, to flex with the hot young ladies there, but none of them seemed to catch his attention.

He was so annoyed for wasting much of his time there by sitting handsomely and watching the strip-club ladies dance seductively and swirl around the pole.

Justin frustratingly stood up and left the club, as all he could think of was the pretty young lady that he had seen in the afternoon and finally had the courage to approach her.

He had been admiring her for a long time, and his blood boiled hot to claim her and to make sweet love to her, but she ran away from him like he was a beast.

Justin was angry as ever; since he had seen a lot of pretty young ladies, none of them had ever dared to reject him nor his advances toward them, but the pretty young lady really insulted him and bruised his ego too.

Justin is a bad guy, although he was gentle at home and listened to all his parents’ requests and bidding, even though what his parents usually asked him to do wasn’t what he wanted to do. He still obeyed his parents and took over his father's real estate business as he was their only child.

He made a few friends with Jesse Andrew, who was his driver, even though Jesse was far older than him, and he respected him too.

Justin was still friendly with Jesse, as he saw Jesse as an elder brother that he never had and also someone to confide in when he was totally pissed off.

Stepping out from the strip club, Justin ordered Jesse, "Let's go home. I'm just bored today."

Jesse knew that whenever Justin told him that he was bored, it simply meant that something was seriously troubling Justin's mind.

Jesse asked, "What could be the problem, young master?"

Justin stopped and contemplated whether to tell Jesse the truth or not about what was troubling his heart and what his heart truly wanted at the moment.