5

After what happened yesterday, I didn’t get out of bed for two reasons. First, they don’t let me go. Second, because I’m tired. With the size of the two and the strength of them you will really get tired.

I took a deep breath. I still can’t believe I did that with them. I’m sure if the gossip finds out about us, they will judge me and call me p****k. But it is impossible for them to know because they are far away from me.

How many more days have I been here at the mansion? Some of the housemates avoided me because the two brothers had ordered that. Others are talking to me somehow.

I kept my gaze outside the mansion, seeing the front of the mansion from here in the bedroom. I watched Theron and Thander’s car enter. Only two will arrive. They are probably from work. The faces of the two were serious, both foreheads furrowed.

I can’t get over the question of why I’m here. I kept my gaze on them. Only siblings can tell me that reason.

“Miss you can’t go out,” said the guard outside my room.

I looked down at the gun on his side. “I-I’m not going to run away brother, I’m just going to Theron’s office.”

Fold it. I looked up at him, a large and tall guard in my room. I don’t know why they are still guarding it, they know I can’t escape.

“You can’t miss, the boss told you not to go out---”

“I’ll take care of your boss brother. It’s easy to talk to him. You won’t be scolded and he’ll be quiet when he sees me.” Because kiss me for sure! My lips are like drugs because they are both addicted!

It’s good and my body is rested now because they have a job, because if I’m not sure I’m still in bed with them.

“I can’t—”

“I’m not going to run away, brother! Do I look like I can run away with that amount? You saw that I tried at first but I didn’t succeed. So brother, let me pass. I won’t run away.”

“Are you sure?”

“Of course!” I smile.

His right eyebrow rose. “This one even doubted that I wouldn’t run away! I’m just scared of your body and gun!”

“I’ll accompany you to the boss’s office.” Aniya.

I shook. “This is my bodyguard, don’t! I’m not going to run away!”

“You won’t run away?”

“If I can find a way to escape I might try but of course I’m not sure yet!”

Its eyes narrowed. “It’s up to you, if the boss shoots you, it’s your fault.”

I blinked. “I’m only focusing on the second night, two more were focused on me yesterday, I was able to do it so why should I be scared?”

“Did you shoot?” my eyes widened at his question. It looked down at my body. Did he understand what I said? Do we think the same?

“You’re standing now, there’s no blood so the boss probably didn’t shoot you.”

“Good luck, your boss is kind to you if you’re not dead.”

I breathed a sigh of relief to confirm that we weren’t thinking the same thing. I think of the night Theron and I shared my first experience. If you only knew where my guard shot me… Damn is embarrassing!

I felt relieved for a few seconds and was replaced by fear because of what he said. Good and he didn’t know that something had happened to Theron and me but what he said was shocking.

But maybe… dead to taste? Is that so? Letse naman! What’s dead ?!

“He’s so I’ll kill with relish!” I whispered.

It looks like my bodyguard didn’t hear me so I left where he was going.

I walked over to Theron’s office, I stopped in front of me. I tried to stop the trembling of my hand but my grip on it didn’t work.

I would have knocked when the office door suddenly opened. Theron opened up to me.

“Why are you here?” frowned at its question.

“Uh… I just wanted to ask you something …”

“We are busy.” He answered without emotion.

Why is it cold now ?! Porket got what he wanted! Really animals!

Come on Lineah, it’s condensed, Leigh Ann shovel. What’s happening to me? Is it impossible for me to get used to a name that is not mine in just a week?

“Thunder is there too?”

Her whole body was blocking the door so I couldn’t see what she was blocking.

“Who’s that?” I heard Thander say from inside the room, he ignored what the brother said and kept staring at me.

“Alright, Theron… just for a moment… I won’t scratch after that.” My persistence.

“What is it?” Theron asked. He was even more handsome when I saw him raising his right eyebrow.

I shook. Stop Leigh Ann. You don’t come here to see and praise her good looks!

I gulped. “Why am I here? Then what happened sat---” I immediately blocked my arm when he closed the door for me.

“Theron please…”

He was silent for a moment, it slowly eased the door open.

“Get inside.”

I smiled but I immediately hid it too. I spotted Thander sitting in front of a table with many folders.

His forehead furrowed as our eyes met. “Lineah …”

“Why are you here?”

“I-I would like to know why I’m here and then what happened to us … He got me what else you need? Let me go, I’ll still look for my parents. I can’t do that if you imprison me . First of all, you shouldn’t kidnap me.

“Probably sex is the reason but I’m sure there are other reasons besides don! I’m stupid when it comes to sex but my brain is full somehow. I graduated from high school now! I just couldn’t go to college because there is no money.

He turned to Theron. “I think it’s the right time Theron … we should tell her now.”

“H-ha? W-what’s that?” I wondered.

I was nervous about what I could hear from them.

“You’re here to because—”

“You’re here because we want you.” Theron finished what Thander was going to say.

Thander sighed. My forehead furrowed. Yes they like me but that is not the real reason. Based on Thander’s reaction … That’s not the real reason.

“I don’t believe Theron. I know there’s another reason why I’m here, why don’t you just tell me? Who are you?”

“We’re the Montevero’s.”

“Yes but… I don’t know you. Does Tyang owe you anything? Are you a syndicate that sells flesh or bodies ?! Or are you just kidnapping just to be—”

“I know where your biological father is.”

My eyes widened. Does he really know who my real dad is? Maybe Theron is just kidding me? Because he knew I wanted to see the parents.

“A-you know? How? Didn’t you just kidnap me so how can you find out about my parents?” Is this man serious ?!

“That’s all I can say for now, and your not Leigh. You’re Lineah.” Is that why he called me Lineah before? Because I’m really Lineah ?!

My brain could not process what Theron was telling me. Am I Lineah? How did he know I was Lineah? Is he sure? Isn’t this guy really just turning me around? What he said was very impossible.

“I want you to leave Lineah.”

“I-I’m not leaving, I want to know the truth. Do you know my parents? How ?!”

“Leave.”

“I don’t like Theron, I’m not leaving until I know the truth—”

“Leave!” I closed my eyes tightly as it shouted.

I glared at him. “You’ve got what you want so now I don’t have the right pake.” I glanced at Thander. “You got …”

Thander averted his eyes.

“This is not the right time to talk about you, Lineah. You’re not our only problem.” Theron.

“I’ll deal with you once we finish this urgent business.”

“Why not now?” I asked.

“Tart! Lineah out of here!” its cry.

The bodyguard I was talking to earlier appeared at the door.

“Bring her back to her room.” Command it.

Tart would have approached me when I walked away. “No! I’m not going back to my room without knowing why I’m here! How did you meet the parents—”

Theron wiped his face.

“Lineah, just leave.”

My gaze remained on him. It took a deep breath. What happened to the two and do they really seem to be in trouble?

“Lineah please leave.” He gently promised.

Leave? All right, Thander, I’m leaving! I’m leaving and you won’t see me again! I will find my parents without your help! I’m leaving this canned mansion of yours!

*

“Ma’am, have lunch.” It laid that of food on the bedroom table.

“I told you I don’t want to eat, why are you wasting your time ?!”

The maid ignored me instead of leaving it. I looked down at the food. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.

No. I will not give up. My eye caught the bruise on the leg. I’m really lame, I’ll just run away, pass and get caught!

Not every day I haven’t tried to run away will end since the day Theron told me to leave. That handsome man also looks stupid. He wanted me to leave but he wouldn’t let me go!

Yesterday I also started not eating, they had no intention of killing or selling me so I’m sure they won’t let me die. Maybe he will also be released. Three days without the two. Not coming back yet. I don’t know where those two went.

I turned my gaze in another direction. Outs of sight, out of mind. I’m not hungry. No.

I winced when my stomach rumbled. Letse naman! I’m not really hungry! Don’t go with this tyan of mine!

What he said also bothered my mind, he knew my parents. How did he meet my parents? How did he know I was Lineah? Is that really my real name?

Lineah… Am I really Lineah? The difficulty of getting used to Lineah, even if my name starts with the same L, will still be different. Tyang is the one who named Leigh Ann to me.

Does he know anything about my family? What has he got to do with it?

I sighed. I’m just going crazy thinking!

I need to calm my self!

I grab a book near the bed side table to have a peace of mind for the mean time. Why would I even want to read one in my situation?! But since there is nothing to do here to calm me I picked up one pocket novel and read it.

Archie is a carefree guy, he doesn’t care about other people’s feelings, he doesn’t obey the rules because he knows his parents would do anything to keep him out of trouble that’s why he didn’t let it pass when a new girl, Caz from the province made him look like a fool, assuming that she stalks her when in fact she doesn’t.

He loathes Caz for being stupid and clumsy all the time and in every circumstance she’s there to ruin everything for him but he couldn’t get rid of her in fact he’s more drawn into her because she has a resemblance to the girl she met at a bar.

How similar they are when it comes to appearance is how different they are in dress and manners, Caz is shy and clumsy while the woman he met at the bar is seductive and confident. Even though he loathes her, Archie saves her from drowning and even wins a piñata contest just to give her all the candies. He can’t stop himself from staring at her innocent and deep eyes, even though he’s unsure of what he’s feeling he will do anything to see her sweet smile. Archie’s special attention to the nerdy girl has been noticed by the whole university.

Inez, Archie’s ex-girlfriend can’t accept the fact that the hottest and richest guy is showering attention on someone who’s stupid and nerdy. She didn’t waste time and bullied her. Inez made a scene and his brother Joshua helped Caz instead of her own sister. Archie couldn’t help but squint his eyes, jealousy crept inside him.

After that incident, Caz tried everything to avoid him and Archie noticed it and he couldn’t take it so he confronted her but the only thing he got was rejection. He was furious at getting rejected by a nerd and to get rid of what he’s feeling inside he partied with his friends and when he’s so dope up he tried to unwind outside of the bar. All the alcohol was washed away when he saw Caz walk out of the bar, in a red strap and tight dress, very unlike her nerdy façade, it’s like she’s the girl he saw at the bar that night. He tried to follow her but she was gone in an instant. The next day, Archie is hungover and he’s unsure about what he saw, he didn’t act impulsively and confront her because he knows that she would deny it, he needs evidence to prove that what he saw university.

There’s a lot of questions in his mind but he’s gonna deal with it one at a time. He’s going to solve the mystery around Caz, a wild girl hiding in a nerdy girl façade. Ever since that day when he saw Caz on that bar, her actions and behavior changed. It’s like she’s trying to be the new hot girl, replacing Inez.

Just like what Archie thought, one day Caz walked in the campus with a strong and feminine aura around her. Looking very different from her nerdy style. Everyone was shocked, Including Wilder even though he had a clue this would happen. He tried to talk to her but she’s so into the attention everyone is giving to her.

Ava tried to bully her once again but to no avail she only shamed herself in front of the people who once adored her for her beauty. But now there’s someone better than her who doesn’t like her anymore. Caz became the queen bee, just like any other nerds to queens story, she became evil. Long gone, the stupid, clumsy nerd that she once was. Archie found out that she’s the hot girl in the bar.

Since her queen bee transformation, she became the outstanding girl in the university, beauty and brains but her attitude became different, she became more sassy and into fights. She tried to flirt with Archie and he could resist her but he knows deep inside that it’s different and it felt weird for him because she will switch back to the nerd she was in a second and get back to what she is making Archie confused.

While she is drunk at a party and so is Archie, they both get wasted and sleep together. That’s the moment Archie knew that Caz is the one and he is not doubting her anymore. Fertine became a party girl and for no reason she would fight any girl and Archie just shrugged it off. It only got worse when a new guy from a rich family in the province transferred to the university who seems to know Caz.

Suddenly, Caz doesn’t know what she’s done, like she’s a completely different person. Archie shrugged it off and thought that she’s just teasing him. Joshua on the other hand tried to make sense of what Caz is going through saying she has a condition but before Joshua could even finish it they heard a scream coming from.

They found Adam forcing himself on Caz but he got away with it saying she asked for it while she is clueless on what’s going on. Archie’s patience grew thin for Caz and his love for her started to crumble up. She’s no longer the innocent girl he knew, even if he likes the ways she tried to fit in the society she became different, way more different like she’s a new person taking over Caz then it hits him, maybe Joshua is right, maybe Caz has a condition. The doctor confirmed that it is possible and that night he couldn’t sleep.

The next day he saw Inez bullying Caz but the cold and confident girl she once was is gone so he protects him from the wrath of Inez. Turns out that Caz knew it all along that she’s having an alter, but she tries to ignore it and avoid triggering her but when Wilder came she’s awakened and decided to take over. Everything went downhill when a video scandal of Caz ‘alter, Cazandra, the bold, seductive and confident girl spread over the internet.

Caz mother found out about this and she’s so disappointed in her without knowing her daughter is going through a mental health problem. Everyone loathed her for trying to be innocent when she is a slut.

They judged her and cut her with their sharp words that ruin not just her heart but her mind. She’s starting to think that she’s really crazy, pushing Archie away so he won’t get dragged into her craziness. Wilder tried to reason with her but she made her decision and that is to leave him so he could find a better girl without a disorder like hers, so he could leave normally.

Five years later, Archie became a psychologist. He didn’t continue on his business course and didn’t handle his family’s business instead he decided to help those who are suffering with mental health.

One day he bumped into a little girl, who reminds her of Caz because of its innocent eyes. After five years he saw Caz with Joshua, assuming that they’re together he was saddened. Nothing more can ruin his day when he finds out that Jennie, the little girl in the hospital, is Caz’s daughter. But even if he’s with Joshua now, that won’t stop Wilder from pursuing her and getting answers on how she is now.

So he decided to switch places with his therapist. Now that Caz is out of his hands he agrees to an arranged marriage with Ines, Joshua’s sister just to be close with Caz.

But that won’t be enough so he finds Caz’s mother to reunite with her, soon he learns that her mom doesn’t know about her daughter’s disorder, he didn’t mean to say it to her but he did. He planned a setup for Caz and her mom to meet.

But everything didn’t go the way he wanted it to be. Instead of a smiling and grateful Caz, she became furious with him for telling her mother about her condition because she doesn’t want her mother to blame herself for what happened to her. Her trauma started when her Mom left her in their neighbor’s house who she considered as a friend but it turns out that the husband of her friend molested Caz at a young age, the reason why her alter existed. To protect her from this kind of people, her alter is the one taking her position not Caz.

After her revelation about her past, Archie loves her even more for surviving everything she’s been through and for overcoming all the blockage and challenges in her life. And he can’t forgive himself for treating her badly before without knowing her at all, just judging her on her physical looks.

When everything was going well, Caz woke up the next day in a different place, far from what she remembers, that’s when she knew Cazandra was back. While Wilder on the other hand saw Joshua and Betty together thinking that he is cheating with Caz.

Betty almost said that they’re just siblings. Nothing is going on between Joshua and Caz because Caz is a neglected child by his father. Caz’s mother had an affair with a wealthy man, but she’s just a maid and he is already married so she cut their affair but it was too late because she’s already pregnant with Caz at that moment.

Her mother doesn’t even know she met her biological father.

Archie tried to tell Caz that Joshua is cheating on her but she just shrugged it off. In a family dinner where everyone is invited, Wilder confesses to Caz that he still loves her after all this year’s, unfortunately Inez heard this, she was excruciatingly mad, she said everything that can ruin Caz, her mouth slipping that they’re just step sisters. Archie was too stunned to speak when he heard it. Now he knows the truth, Joshua is not the father of Jennie, the little girl he met at the hospital. It was his.

He was overjoyed that he proposed to Caz and called off his engagement with Inez. Caz happily accepts and they get married but in the end after he kisses Caz, she flinches and smirks. Guess the nymphomaniac is still within her, on good terms with the nerdy Caz that he loves.

Damn it! I finished the book without even blinking!

Now off to plan. I need to escape!

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I had to escape.

I looked around the room. As usual … I will run away again. I hope you will succeed now.

I glanced sideways when I went out of my room. My forehead furrowed sharply without the bodyguards, where would they be?

From the second floor of the mansion, the housemates can be seen rioting.

What’s up?

All ata bodyguards throughout the mansion were below and surrounding the two people standing in front of the main door.

Downstairs was a woman in a formal dress, it was white and stocky, it looked sophisticated in what she was wearing.

The man in a suit that was even taller than the woman was wearing a mirror, his white hair was obvious even though he was wearing a hat. They seem to be in their mid forties. Who are they and are the people in the mansion confused?

I took a deep breath. I can’t help but think of real parents. How are my real parents? Maybe they are just the same age. Who do I look like to them? Aren’t they rich like them? Maybe not because they abandoned me. Maybe not live like that.

I sighed. Whatever the reason why I was abandoned. I still want to meet them. I can do this! I must leave the mansion.

I went down the stairs less used. I tried to be careful. I made my way to the living room.

I hid behind the wall as a bodyguard peeked out.

Letse! I need to be more careful. When they see me.

They can ask me who I am and what I’m doing here and I don’t know what I’ll answer to them when that happens so it’s better to hide then I’ll run away!

I have a strong feeling that I can escape now!

“Fools! Why did you leave upstairs ?!” that shout was not far from where I was standing.

“It’s because people still need it here so we left it first. Then it ate upstairs. It’s also impossible to get out because it has a bruise.”

“Stupid! What do you think of the bruise, the bullet of the gun? Go back upstairs, it will guard the woman. Sir Thander ordered her not to let her out of the room.”

I peeked in the direction of the speaker. The three of them were standing near the stairs where I had come down earlier. Based on what these bodyguards were wearing, I remembered two of them. They were the ones who guarded my room in the past.

“It’s up to you to keep an eye on the heights!”

Its eyes widened. “Ha? Why me ?! I almost stabbed you with a fork! It’s just you!”

“I don’t want to! I was strangled yesterday!”

Ay letse! They were my victims in the past. As much as I want to run away. I hurt other bodyguards, but not that badly. The hospital has not yet started.

“Whores! If I strangle you, can you be one by one ?! When you escape, the boss won’t just strangle you!”

“Guide! It’s that bwiset!” hand head of one. It went up the stairs.

In fact they are lucky because I am not in the room right now.

“You can behave like you’re not bodyguards!” it’s an angry cry.

I hid again as the remaining man turned away. I touched the stomach of that sore.

Damn it!

From last night until now halon I have not eaten! I’m good and I’m used to being hungry, because others feel dizzy and faint.

But I have to eat now! They won’t know I’m eating because I won’t move the food in the room. I turned sesame around. I made sure there was no maid or bodyguard before I went straight to the kitchen. I carefully walked into the kitchen while looking around and maybe someone could see me.

When I got to the kitchen it was fine and no one was there. They still look busy. Thank goodness!

I immediately went to the refrigerator and got fresh milk and sliced a cake there.

It was as if I hadn’t been fed for a few months because of the way I ate, I even took out the pizza that was just placed there, there was also fried chicken and mac and cheese. I pulled out all that was quickly left out.

“Who are you?” I was shocked to hear the artistic voice behind me.

The woman I saw earlier was behind me because the housemates didn’t speak English.

Who am I? How do I answer his question?

“Your children kidnapped me and then exploited me.”

Letse! With the handsomeness of those two it probably doesn’t believe I was kidnapped!

What if…

“I got lost and then I ended up here, I’m also eating, the taste of your food, let’s go!”

The answer I think is completely wrong!

My sweat was dripping with the excessive force of my breasts, I was nervous.

Think.

I looked around the kitchen. It looks like a light bulb is burning in my brain. The answer I needed was there on the cabinet knob with the keychain attached and the label ‘Loving Maid’.

“I am asking, who are you ladies ?!”

“How disrespectful! Turn around!” its voice was tinged with irritation.

Damn it!