Chapter 1 "Mercy"

Snapped!

A loud slap sounds prominent in the silent room. Crystal was slapped in her face as her face turned to one side. She was taken aback for a moment, and when she reacted, she slowly turned her wet lashes up and looked at her husband, who was sullen and angry at something she didn't know.

There was no empathy in his eye. The look which every husband gets when they see tears in their wife's eyes. Zean Macron had none. He had that same digest and hatred in his eye, which she saw on her wedding night and continued for the last  4 years.

"Who allowed you to touch my things? " His voice full of rage.

"I...didn't..i-" Zean came forward toward Crystal and grabbed fiest full of Crystal. Crystal clasped her eye tightly and bit her lip to not let out a single scream due to the pain.

"How many times should I tell you. Stay away from my thing and from me. I don't like you a bit. I won't ever want you. Do you think hiding that ring will stop me from getting married to Anna?. What a pathetic way to stop my marriage. Give me the ring back, Crystal, or no one can save you from me today?" He shouted as his grip tightened on her hair. Crystel body starts to tremble in his hold. She was so scared. She knew it wasn't an empty threat. This wasn't something new to her, after all.

After loving him for six years, this is what she underwent.

"I didn't enter your room" She muttered. She really didn't know about the ring. Like every day, today also she helped the maids clean the house, water the plants and do house course. She never enters his room. And yes, they live separately. Zean never allowed her to enter his room or even touch his things. And like a pathetic fool she is, she has obediently followed his every command like a slave.

"Liar!!" He roared in a fury. Zean was so angry that he pushed her away. The force he applied was too much for her fragile body that her back smashed with the edge of the night desk, making the glass frame fall on the ground and Crystal fall on the broken pieces of glass.

She screamed in pain as the sharp pieces of glass scratch her arms making her bleed.

"What a big fat liar you are? I didn't know you would fall this low." He yelled before turning his back on her and looked at the scared maids who had their heads down and silently observed the situation.

"Lock her up in till she confesses. Don't give her food and water till I say so." Zean ordered in his harsh voice and was about to walk away.

"Stop right there!" Crystal shouted. Today she wanted to say the words that had been on the tip of her tongue for many months now, and it should have been spoken long before. But she has always soothed herself that he will change. He will love her one day. But she was tired.

She could no longer hold the words, and they spilt from her lips with desperate zeal.

"What did I do wrong? Why are you so cruel to me? I loved you so dearly. I have helped you with your business. My dad made you the owner of his extensive industry on his death bed. I even donated one of my kidneys to your dying mother. I gave you shoulders to lean on, an ear to listen to, and I dug my heart out for you with my own hands. Was it all nothing to you?. I did everything you asked me to. I.."  She spits it out, holding her gaze firmly on him. But to her disappointment, his expression was the same, his eyes hooded and his upper lip curled mockingly.

"Are you done? I never loved you. It was your father who forced me to marry you. I loved Anna from the beginning. Your dad asked my father about our marriage. And my father forced me to marry you. And if you don't know, I had an agreement with you, father, if I don't want you as my wife in future, I can divorce you any time."   An evil smirk appeared on his face.

Tears welled up in her eyes. As she looked at him in disbelief. "Y, you are lying. You proposed to me. My dad will never do this." Her voice trembles.

"Oh darling, I proposed to you because of my father. He wanted me to trap you in love. But the twist is your dad didn't even know about it all. He signed the paper believing my Dad." He laughed at her ugly expression and walked away.

Two maids came toward her and dragged her out of the room. "L, Leave me. I am the mistress. Let go of me," She shouted struggle to free herself from their hold.

She was tired, exhausted. Her vision was slowly slipping away because of the blood loss.

She regretted marrying this man, who first wore a mask of a gentleman and turned out to be a monster. He betrayed her love, her trust he even cheated on her with her older sister. It was all her fault. She was the dumbest woman to fall in love with this man. She remembers how she pleaded with her father to let her marry Zean. She was regretting everything.

Crystal heart felt bitter.

She was in a dark room filled with the sour rustic scent of blood. Sitting weakly on the ground and hugging her trembling body, letting the blood faint on her clothes.  It had been two days since she was locked up without food and water. Her body felt weak, and her lashes felt heavy. She couldn't even open her eye because of the exhaustion.

Crystal was suffering from dehydration but she no longer had the strength to call for anyone, much less the strength to stand and walk out of this dark room. She has scream her heart out for maids to free her.

She attempted to crawl to the exit of the room but the acute pain she felt in her back bone and legs almost caused her to faint. She knew that her back bone was broken.

She heard some noise from outside the room she was locked in.

Suddenly, the door opened, and Crystal saw two shadows approaching her with several other footsteps flowing. Someone turned on the lights when crystal saw someone familiar in front of her. Her vision was blur due to the sudden light in the room. It took few seconds to adjust her eyesight in sudden lighting, but when she did. Her eye became wide. She was astounded. Anna Eva, her older sister, stood infront of her in a big white wedding gown. Her hands folded under her breast and a victorious smile on her lips.

“Why are you doing this to me? I never done anything to you?” Ignoring her sentence Anna speak.

" Hello, little sis. Who told you to come in my way? Who told you became a lovely child my father’s lovely child. But it doesn’t matter anymore" Anna crouched down, making eye contact with the crystal.

"It must be hard to live here without food and water. See, elder sister brought you food." Anna softly caresses crystal's cheek.

When Anna touches an opened cut wound, Crystel hiss. "oh, I am so sorry little sis, are you ok?"

Crystal glared at Anna. "What are you doing here?" Ignoring her question, Anna signal a maid to place food infront of Crystal. But Crystal pushed the try away, Making the food splash all over Anna's white gown.

"Who let you in my house? You are not allowed in my house. You are not my sister. Get out!!, Get out!"

Crystal blood boils looking at this woman in front of her, whom she once saw as an ideal. She wanted to become just like her sister.  She followed every come Anna gave to her, but this crafty woman snatched her husband and her family in the end.

The next moment crystal felt a pain in her right cheek. But it wasn't Anna who slapped her, it was her mother. Mrs Kitty Eva watched everything that happened here. Crystal eyes widen. She looked at her mother in disbelief.

"How dare you dirty my daughter's wedding dress. Maids !! bring the wipes!" She ordered one of the maids who brought a thick leather wipe.

"M, Mom....why?"  Her heart completely shattered hearing her mother's harsh words toward her.

Looking at her face in disbelief, she cried.

"Don't call me that. You are a crushed child. You disgust me. your birth lead me to infertility. Because of you i had to left my work. Your birth made my body unhealthy ,I couldn’t continue my modeling carrier. Hament and I started fighting. I don't know what black magic you did on my husband, He wanted to give you everything. Even neglecting my precious Anna. You bitch, you snatch everything from me, my happiness, my daughter happiness, you killed your father. He died because of you. He even gave all his company shares to you. My daughter was given just a villa and some land of the property. You snatch everything from us. You witch!!. " She shouted.

Crystal let out a heart pierced scream as the rough leather wipe Lash down on the delicate body. She starts screaming, thrashing for help, crying loudly and pleading for mercy. However, she felt only pain.

Why she given her birth if there was so much problem. She wanted to voice her thought out but no words came. She was so shocked  that she couldn’t recover for a long time. She looked at her mother in disbelief. How can she not notice this disgust filled eye’s of her mother before. How can she not see the fake kindness of her mother and sister toward her. She must really be a muddlehead before.

"Slut, you have no right to throw me out of this place as I am the new mistress of the house. Zean could not wait to marry me, and we got married today. It's our wedding night tonight, and you know what I wanted to give him as a gift."  Anna smile was full of wickedness.

"Freedom from you," She said, throwing a liquid on Crystal's body.

Crystal screamed in pain as the hot liquid thrown on her wounds making them burn.

Acid

"Why? Why? Why? Is this happening to her?  Why is no one helping her? Why was she being punished so brutally?"

Crystal coughed as she spat blood. Her eye's red as she glared at the two women.

God only knew what was her thoughts before her eyes closed and her soul left her body.

It was early morning. The room was quiet and calm. The girl in bed was tossing and turning in her sleep. Her forehead was covered in a cold sweat. Her breath was fast. She has tightly clutched the silk bed sheet in her hand.

Her skin was very white. It wasn’t the pale white tone of sickliness but the beautiful fair white of pearls. The delicate cheek appeared blushed under the ray of sun.

Her brows formed a faint frown. Her expression becomes one of pain and suffering. Her eyes rolled about non-stop as if she was struggling to wake up with all her might. A long moment passed. She seemed to have overcome the incubus imp and abruptly opened her eyes.

With wide opened eyes, her chest violently surged up and down. After a long while, she finally calmed down from her panic. Her hair stuck to the sweat on her forehead and face. She quickly brushed her hair away and touched her face. She clearly felt the burning acid on her face and the leather wipe piercing her skin.

Where am I?