Chapter 3 Memory Lane.... Rainbow after the Rain
Villa 7; Chen Mansion
5 years ago
Every night the servants will hear an instrument that is played inside the house, it seems that it is not a happy song. They thought that their Madam is crying again. She is always like that; after their fight, after he forced her into their bed he always left her. Then after that, music is played; she always voices out her feelings and her words through music…. The sound of the violin is very sad…. The servants feel pity for their madam…..
"I'm sorry," she absent-mindedly asks for forgiveness and forcibly rubbed her tears away until her face turned red. "I'm so sorry for loving you…. To care for you…." Luna uttered as she is looking at his picture in her hands.
"I have no regrets marrying you. No matter how tough you treat me," she said with her hand on his face. She realized she was tearing up again.
"I don't—extremely regret loving and caring for you." She shook her head. "But did you know what I'm afraid of?" There was an undeniable sadness in her voice.
"I have no regrets at all, but I'm scared that it will come a day that I will stop loving you and caring for you, and you will no longer be in here, and all I can feel for you is hatred. That one day I will want revenge for all the things you have done to me even the things that my step-sister, my family, and your family has done to me." Luna said as she caresses Louie's picture.
"I already have forgotten how it felt like when I first started loving and cared for you." She sniffed and sobbed for a while before retreating into her corner. This was her whole word—her lonely world.
"As I leave this place today I hope you will be happy and contented with your life, I know you will be happy right now because you two are back together. I know my stepsister will love you more than I did and she will give you everything that I can't give. She is the perfect wife that you have been looking for." Luna almost whispered to herself, but it was heard by Housekeeper Lee as she packs some of the designer clothes that will be given to the auction as soon as their young madam leaves the Villa.
Luna is now packing her old clothes as she was ready to leave the house she once called home. It's Christmas day and yet she doesn't want to celebrate it. Since she arrived at this house the only people who let her feel warmth are the servants, Old Butler Lee and his wife Housekeeper Lee. They're her family, and as a small token, she draws their portrait and framed it, and gives it to them as a Christmas present.
"Ms. Luna, your ride has arrived, are you sure that you will leave tonight? " Old Butler Lee asks her. "Yes, Grandpa Lee; my tickets are already booked to City D; don't worry too much about me because I can take care of myself." Housekeeper Lee wipes off her tears as she gave Luna's trench coat for her so that she will not feel cold during her trip. "I will be back in this city Grandma Lee, it may take a very long time but I promised you that I will be back. And when it happens, we will be together, I will get you all out of this house. But since I will be gone please do take care of Louie, don't let him smoke nor drink too many alcoholic drinks." Luna gave her final instructions to the Lee couple and to all the servants who are so dear to her. "You really love Young Master Louie, Young Miss, I hope someday the Young Master will realize that he let go of a gem," Housekeeper Lee said to her while in tears. The servants are all in tears as they bid farewell to their Madam of the house. They will never forget her and they will always treasure her for the rest of their lives.
In the same year Old Butler Lee and his wife Housekeeper Lee handed in their resignation to Louie Chen; they want to leave also Chen Villa because they don't want to serve the new Madam of the house and they knew that Ms. Sofia Su is cruel and have two-faced. Louie only sighed out of frustration because the Lee couple has been serving his family for years; the only thing is almost all the servants who become close to Luna also handed their resignation three days after she left. For them the only Master that they want to offer their services is Luna... Their Ms. Luna.....
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"Having a memory lane my dear lady Autumn?" Ryder asked as they approach the road between the Villa's 7 and 8. "We all knew that we will be neighbors to your ex-husband and we are here because you want them to be regretful." Ryder reminds her. Autumn smiled at Ryder.
"Grandpa Lee, have you contacted all those servants who left the Mansion of the Chen? Have you hired them to work for me?" Autumn asks the Butler again. "Yes, child, I've already done what you have requested for and also I've settled them with their families to the in house quarters per family... As you have said the Villa 8 is the biggest land area here at Pearl Plaza." Grandpa Lee explained to her as he handed the list of all the personnel of the house. Autumn gladly accepted the list with a very cheerful feeling... "Ryder, now that my family here is complete we can have a grand feast later and after Dimitri's arrival next week." Ryder expected this kind of attitude towards Autumn.
They've already arrived at the Villa 8, every family at Pearl Plaza is very curious to who owns the largest land area villa at Pearl Plaza. As they gaze to the cars that enter the gates of Villa 8 they want to know who are they; the only information that they got from their sources is the new owners of the Villa 8 are the heirs of the largest jewelry company in Italy.
As Ryder's memory lane recalls; Duke Lawrence Vallini is a business magnate in both jewelry and hotels in Italy. He is also one of the ruthless, cold-hearted, and cruel of the most fearsome underworld organization in Italy. All the members of the organization treated Luna as their princess; their little sister, even Dimitri, and Ryder treats her like a precious rare gemstone. She is their savior during that time; they found Luna at the train station at City D, unconscious, very cold, and very pale. She is one of the victims of the gang war that happened there; since Duke Lawrence just lost his only daughter Jade that year and was still yearning for daughter's love and attention, and since Luna has a very similar feature just like Jade just like a fatherly instinct he carried her princess style and help her. He immediately adopts Luna as soon as he got to know her story through her and through the background investigation that they held. He very much dotted Luna and he promised her that he will help Luna get her revenge. Just like Dimitri and Ryder, Luna is also an adoptive child but they treat each other like real siblings.
"Hey! Ryder are you okay?" asked Autumn. Ryder just smiled at her as he remembers that she always brings a rainbow after the rain to their lives. For him She is his rainbow after the rain, for Dimitri she is his Christine of the Phantom of the Opera; and for the members of their underworld organization Autumn is their wonderful world and for their adoptive father Duke Lawrence she is his sunshine.