A plaything?That could be lent out?Did John not say before that she would only ever belong to him? Did he not say that she belonged to him forever and ever?Why was she now a plaything to him?After some time, Olivia heard footsteps approaching. The sound made her heartbeat quicken.Johnny was coming. What would he do now?Olivia did not know when she began fearing alone time with John. She was always afraid that he would hit her again.Abruptly, her hair was forcefully yanked from behind, dragging her off the bed.John’s lips were close to her chilly ears as he spat through gritted teeth. “Olivia Larson, how could you be such a b*tch?”“Johnny, I didn’t… I really didn’t…”Olivia knew her attempt to explain was futile, but besides explaining, what else could she do?“You didn’t?”John tugged her hair, making her head turn to face him while his other hand clicked his phone open to play a video recording. He shoved his phone before Olivia’s eyes and barked, “Watch carefully
Olivia did not come back to her senses even after John was long gone.Her tears were frozen on her face, and her heart was in so much despair it felt like it had died.She had walked out of prison, but she was not sure if John would soon put her back in there.What could she do to get the Larson’s Residence back?She could not investigate the truth of her parent's death, she could not save Uncle Wallace, and she had no way of seeing Ian again…Olivia bit her tongue until it bled, then she sat up on the bed, blinking. She looked down at her lower abdomen. She could not choose death now, since there was another life inside of her.What could she do?Suddenly, her phone rang. Olivia’s head snapped to look at the phone.It was a calendar notification that said ‘Mom’s death anniversary’.Her heart tugged painfully as she reached out to dismiss the notification. She smiled bitterly. How could she have forgotten about her mother’s death anniversary? She was indeed a very bad child.
“Yeah, thank you for always keeping my parent’s tombstone clean.”Olivia took out a small envelope and placed it on the table. “Just a small token of appreciation.”The grave keeper glanced at her and smiled. “You don’t have to do this. I know you’re a girl with filial piety.”Olivia pursed her lips, and thought about it for a while before she spoke, “Oh yea, sir, could you show me the security footage for today please?”“What happened? You lost something?”“No, I found a bouquet in front of my mom’s tombstone, I’d like to know who…”The grave keeper smiled mysteriously. “You don’t have to look at the footage, Miss Larson, because you won’t find anything.”“What did you mean by me not finding anything?”“That person isn’t in the security footage, also, since two years ago, that person would drop by every year, but they would not let me tell you about it, so I can’t.”Olivia felt erratically nervous. “Is it a man or a woman?”The grave keeper placed the water bottle he held in
“Let go of me!”Olivia Larson fought hard in an attempt to escape the grasp of that man, but since her body was weakened, she could not fight back at all.That man proceeded to blow around her ear and said, “You are still trying to fight back? The daughter of the Larsons is something that everyone here wants a piece of. You’re stuck here, Mrs. Freeman.”Right after that, that man threw her onto the sofa, leaned in, and was about to press down into her before people around him stopped him.“Hey, shouldn’t we make it more fun?”“How so?”“This is the belle of Ocean City, the wife of Mr. Freeman right here! It’s not every day we get an opportunity like this, so of course, let’s start with dancing!”That man glanced at Olivia and said, “That works too. We can do that in the meantime as we wait for the drug to kick in.”So, that man yanked the dizzy, strengthless Olivia up and smiled perversely. “Mrs. Larson, please perform a strip dance for all of us!”Olivia’s stomach was in knot
“Yeah! Hurry up, show us what we want to see! Stop dilly-dallying!”“Hah, if you want the money, stop pretending!”Olivia Larson gritted her teeth and took off her entire t-shirt. Now, she only had a tank top on her upper body. Both her arms were already completely exposed.Even if it was under a dimmed light, the fairness of her skin was still eye-catching.Olivia stood under the scrutinization of everyone else, so much so her nails started to dig into her flesh, but she still had a smile on her face.Mr. Coal saw that she had stopped and walked towards her till he was beside her. He touched her waist and said, “Why did you stop striping? Do you need my help?”Olivia gritted her teeth and took a step back while she refused stoically. “No need.”“Why are you pretending to be reserved? Didn’t you start with so much incentives just now? Besides that, how clean could a woman who had the ability to cheat two years ago be?”Mr. Coal reached out to toy with Olivia’s hair, but it was
Olivia only needed two minutes to figure out who the person behind the scenes was.No one else other than Dorothy Ellis!She looked at John and there was a little hope gleaming in her eyes. If Johnny knew all these were upon Dorothy’s orders, what would he do?After John had beaten Mr. Coal to the ground, he took a towel from Wes and wiped his hands. Then, he threw the towel onto Mr. Coal’s face and walked towards Olivia.He bent down, scooped her up in his arms, and carried her to the door. He stopped abruptly and turned to look at everyone else who was gobsmacked.“People that have seen what they’re not supposed to—gouge out their eyes!”Wes nodded. He turned and saw a blinking light. “Sir, someone was recording this.”“Smash it!”“Yes sir! I’ll also get to the bottom of this.”John did not respond. He carried Olivia and walked out. He placed her on the passenger seat and went over to the driver’s seat.Throughout the entire process, John did not speak another word, but the
“Yeah, Johnny, If I knew the consequences I had to bear, I would definitely not have saved Dorothy Ellis all those years ago.”Olivia tried to suppress the fire from within her, but as time went by, her stand was weakening.Her cheeks were flushed red, she was frowning as she reached out to remove John’s coat from her and lifted her hands to remove her tank top.“You look even more lowly now, Olivia Larson!”Her heart still ached, but her consciousness was fading, and her limbs would not respond…John looked coldly at her, carried her upstairs, and threw her into the bathtub. He faced the shower head towards Olivia and turned the cold water on.As cold water soaked her body, the heat from within her got instantly reduced. As she snapped back to her senses from all the haze, she lifted her head to see John’s malicious eyes.“Don’t go out if you have nothing better to do!”Olivia stared back at him longingly and said, “It’s mom’s death anniversary today.”John was taken aback. “
“I got beaten up.”“By who?”Olivia felt a trace of pain in her heart when she saw his shocked expression, she snorted. “You.”John looked at her coldly without saying anything, but his look seemed to have exposed his thoughts. ‘That’s a lie, have I ever beaten you before?’She endured the pain in the bottom of her heart and said, “Johnny, it’s not the first or second time you beat me up… Among these wounds, some were from you whereas the rest were from the people that you ordered to assault me.”Olivia did not know what to feel at that moment.Was it pain, despair, or resentment?It seemed to be all of them combined at the same time not.Ever since the miscarriage two years ago, she had been in a complicated state until now.He was the man who loved her more than himself for 17 years, the man who saved her life, and it was impossible for her to just let go of him as if it was nothing. Maybe she was indeed pathetic just like what he called her.John lifted her chin slightly a