You are hurting my daughter!

Somewhere inside the city

Inside a dark room

The light was pouring in through a few holes somewhere. Few silent guards were standing quietly at the sides while two of them were standing guards near the closed door. In the center was a girl tied to a chair. She was leaning over and hence her face was hidden in the dark. Her hair covered most of her face.

Very suddenly, all the guards straightened their postures as if they were waiting for someone to arrive. In no time the door flew open and two shadowy figures appeared, making the guards bow down with respect. Both the figures were pretty faces and were lookalikes of each other. One owned the elegance and charm of a high socialite and the other carried a commanding and dominant attitude. They were both wearing long black robes like some ancient cult gowns. When one of them saw the girl, she immediately charged forward. But the other held her back, "Tch, tch Lilith. If you behave in that way after seeing her. How will you cope with her death, huh?"

"Let go of me!" Lilith yelled, "Let go, Judith!"

"Hush", Judith smirked and placed a finger on her lips, "You are gonna wake the sleeping girl."

"Asshole", Lilith flung the chair nearby on Judith's head.

Judith retreated a few steps from the sudden impact. Blood was oozing out from the wound, making her look extra scary, "You have learned how to retaliate now? And that too, against me?"

"Yes", Lilith yelled, "You are hurting my daughter!"

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Hotel River Flint

Nobody inside the hall, the staff members, the fans, reporters, no one, understood why Millie would do such things. About the 'being a criminal' thing, Eddie had deliberately spread words about this because they say, the true circumstances break your facade.

"Why, Millie?" Eddie strolled towards Millie, "There are more surprises, right? Which are disgusting for the public eye. Am I right?"

"What... what do you mean?" Millie was stammering again.

"I mean the thing between you and Jeremy...", Eddie paused and turned back to the monitor, "Maybe, let the public see."

"No!" Millie yelled, "No! Don't do this!" By now, she had already figured that Eddie was a scary woman. And she sincerely hoped not to leak her private life.

"Why?" This time, Riley spoke up with his eyebrows raised, "Is there something very wrong with that? Something very unimaginable?"

"No! Nothing", Millie stuttered.

"Interesting", Riley slowly walked towards her, "Your answer to every question is no but you are seriously hiding something. Something that you want to be hidden from the public eye. Am I right?"

"What is there to hide?" Millie was getting an extremely hard time.

"Something unimaginable? Something very very disgusting?" Riley shrugged.

"Why don't you let them show us?" A reporter spoke up, Ïf you are not guilty."

"Alright", Eddie raised her hands, "This is not a courtroom. Let me show you this."

Then, she played the footage from the night they spied on Millie. Eddie spoke up again, "This was to confirm that if she was seriously involved. To keep the last strand of hope intact."