Philip stared at the unconscious woman on the floor. He told her to live like a fool if she wants to stay alive. Why didn’t she listen to him? What the fuck is wrong with her for heaven’s sake?
When Selen opened her eyes again, she was on the narrow bed in the servants quarters. She blinked her eyes a few times, trying to recall where she was and how she got there when she remembered what happened to her.
She almost died. That lunatic almost murdered her. What exactly had she done to deserve this unfair treatment from him? If he has issues with her family, his anger was going to be appeased by making her live such a hard life.
Not showing up at the wedding venue was enough humiliation anyone would receive from her groom. And yet, he was the one who sent the wedding dress. She knew it because it was labelled when the order arrived.
She felt pain when she tried getting up. Her throat, yes, he’d hurt her. She forced herself out of bed and went to the bathroom. It was evident. The red prints of his fingers were round her throat and her tears dropped.
She thought she was dead, she couldn’t breathe. She struggled with him to let her go but she couldn’t and she gradually lost consciousness...but did someone come to save her?
Growing up was hard. She didn’t expect that after being a grown up, her hardship wasn’t going to end. Who had she crossed or hurt in her past life that she now has to live this lifetime, repaying back the debt.
She found her phone, switched off and by the sides of her bed. She put it on and took pictures of the fingerprints around her neck. Then there was a knock on the door and a servant came in "Selen, thank goodness you’re finally awake.
Miss Katherine wants you in her room immediately" she informed. Selen sighed, Miss Katherine is Clancy’s younger sister. She’s as horrible as her brother.
Quickly she got a dress on and tied a scarf around her neck. She doesn’t want anyone to know about her ordeal. She got straight to the estate and was told Miss Katherine had chosen her to be her personal maid.
Selen nodded. Rose Avelino glanced at Selen casually and glanced away "You should serve Katherine her lunch in her room. You’re so lazy and sleep all day in your room simply because Clancy played a little with you?"
Play a little?
He almost murdered her and his mother said he played a little with her? If that was play and a little one, then she doesn’t want such play anymore. These people are terrible.
She got the food and went to Katherine’s room. She was lying on the bed and she said "drop that meal and clean up the toilet. Dispose of those used sanitary pads and keep the bathroom tidied up."
Selen nodded and went off. Cleaned up everything and returned. The meal was already cold. She ordered her to return the meal. Selen had hardly left when she called her over and requested for another meal.
Selen continued as a regular maid in the Avelino’s family for months. One morning, she was doing her chores and she couldn’t hold up, her body was weak and frail and despite trying to hide the truth from everyone else, she knew what was wrong with her.
She slumped and fainted in the kitchen. She didn’t know what happened or how long she passed out except that when she woke up, she was lying on her bed surrounded by two maids. The head of the maids and another woman who was hired shortly after she came.
"Selen" the head maid called and held her hand. She was an old lady in her fifties. She glanced at the young woman on the bed and shook her head. How did it happen? Who did this to her?
Meanwhile she continued "Mrs Rose wants you in the sitting room as soon as you wake up" she informed. She watched the young woman for a bit and left.
Selen got out of bed. Touched her belly. She felt a little hardness below her navel. Thank goodness, her belly was still flat. She needs to do something about it soon. Either eloped or feigned illness or find an excuse to escape the Avelino’s estate.
When she got to the sitting room, she was forced on her knees and the first person who slapped her was Rose Avelino. Selene placed one of her hands on her belly and the other on her chin.
She was sobbing. She’d been kneeling for over thirty minutes and her body hurts. She’d tried to hide her pregnancy and escape without being noticed but how can she do it, when she was forbidden to step out of the estate.
The guards and servants were aware that she was under strict surveillance. She’s pregnant, the result of her careless night with a man, whose name she wasn’t ever to mention as her husband.
It’s been three months and she’d not seen him again. After the incident of being suffocated, she hadn’t set her eyes on him again. He comes around to see his parents but she ensured she avoided him.
"Who is the unfortunate man who got you pregnant? This is the last time I will be asking you this question. Whose child are you carrying?" Rose Avelino asked again and Selen sniffled.
Her son despises this woman. Their fake marriage was not consummated. How then can she be pregnant, exactly three months after her wedding with a three months old pregnancy? What on earth is happening?
"I don’t know ma’am" Selen responded and just as she expected, another slap followed. She sobbed aloud. Her body hurts and her waist seemed like she was going to have a miscarriage. How she wishes, she would be allowed to sit down.
"Just say it already, was it one of the drivers, stewards or the guards? Who among them pinned you against the wall and fucked you" Katherine demanded.
She can’t imagine the extent this lowlife could go. She slept with another man because Clancy wouldn’t take her to his bed and consummate the union. Some women don’t have any sense of decency.
"I don’t know him, he’s dead," Selen responded. He is indeed dead. How can she call his name, how can she tell them that despite her epileptic union not consummated, she was pregnant from an earlier affair with him.
"You think we are fools now? You said you don’t know him and yet,you knew he was dead. You are a slut" Rose Avelino cursed and kicked Selen violently. The fury in her couldn’t be concealed. She detest women who have no self esteem.
Selen Williams cried out in pain. Her belly hurts. She clutched to her belly, it pains her, the pain radiates to the back of her belly and she couldn’t help it but collapsed into the floor.
She closed her eyes, writhing in pain as her belly hurt. She felt her baby had been hurt. He’s just three months old in her belly and might not be able to survive the effect of Rose Avelino’s vicious kick.
"Please help me mother..." Selen pleaded stretching her hand towards Rose Avelino, she plunged her into this pain but she’s a mother, a woman who has experienced the period of expectancy. She should show her some mercy.
"I am not your mother you bitch! How dare you call me mother?" Rose was furious and kicked her more. She wants her to lose the pregnancy, she wants her to feel the pain of pressure her family placed on her son to add to the compensation he offered.
She doesn’t deserve to be a mother. No William family member should be happy if her son isn’t. She cursed Selen and called her a bitch, a stinking dripping bitch from her family.
Selen cried out in pain and felt a wetness slip down her legs. She wanted to cry out for help, to get someone to take her to the hospital but she couldn’t. She was losing her baby and couldn’t do anything about it.
She gets weaker and then, her eyes go dizzy, she blackouts!
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