Chapter 12 of chapter 8

"do thinks know why your mother question my mother about my father?" Matthew asked while digging on the soil . 

"No" Elsie replied, Also doing the same thing. She wasn't bother about that. All the little girl knows that she had a friend to play with and that Matthew.  "I was thinking your mother was upset with us. Doesn't that means your father will throw us out?" The boy asked curiously. He had learned to love this place just the few days he had spend here. Losing such a place and returning back to the street would be a bad mess for he to copied with. He really wish they can live here forever and never returned back to where they comes from.

"I don't think so. You say my father call you his son. That means you're not going anywhere. So, put your mind at rest in fact you got me. If anything happens that wouldn't change our friendship for each other. You're still my friend and will forever be " the girl assured him. That's bright up his mood. At least, he still got her as a friend if anything happens....

Probably be chased out of the house, Elsie would stl remains his friend. That's one thing he consider...

"Thank you Elsie for being my friend" the boy said with a curling cute smile.  She smiled back at him. And them both continue with the digging.

"Oh that reminds me, you haven't gotten your doll shoes, what are we going to do? The mansion building would soon be ready" 

"Oh that, wait I all go and get it. Just bring me one minute" she left the playing ground and ran inside the house in an hurry. 

Also feeling excited. Just when she gets to the room door of her parents, she heard they yelling at each other. Then, she believes they must be fighting again, she wanted to walk away and ignored their fighting. That's what she always does, she would walk away and find a place to cry but since she had Matthew, she was planning on going to cry on his arms. She needed someone arms to cry on and someone to comfort her..

Just then, a name stop her for moving further. Matthew was her father truly son? She ask herself with wide eyes..

"I guess you like to been beaten before you get back to your rightful sense of thinking. Huh?" 

Mrs Brett was crying in pains but that didn't seen as an effect to him, in fact, it increasing his torment on her hair. 

"I was holding on to my patient not to rise an hand on you but it seem  you are enjoying my beating. I promise Mercy I would change to be a better person just for her sake but here I am breaking that promise I made to my love!" 

He made a promise to her to be a better person? What she had dream of all her life of been married to him, he was giving to that honor to someone else? 

"You even have the guts to describe my biological son to someone else son? Are you crazy and wishing for your death!" 

"What can I do! You treat me as trash and even your daughter too. But a black woman who arrival to the house you treated as honey. I bring her back to you as you requested, hoping that would make you see the love I have for you all these years. But no! You share that to a commoner! " 

Immediately Mrs Brett felt a hot hit on her left cheek, sending her to hit on the cold floor. " You dare call my lovely Mercy a commone?!" 

Mrs Brett grumbled in pains as fresh new tears find their way out dripping on her slap cheek...

"You should be happy that I'm taking good care of you and that useless thing you called a daughter! Aren't you the one who chase her out in the first place! Now, you called her commoner? Too bad she please me way more better that you can ever do!" 

Elsie watch with watery eyes, as she watched her mother crying in pains. She couldn't do anything as she was scared to interfere with them. The last time she does, didn't turned out to be a good results. That provoked her father more as he increase the beating on both of them.

She blinks her eyes and tears fall down to her cheeks. She understands the pains her mother was going through all these years until these days.... 

"I prefer fucking her than you! You good for nothing cheat!' 

He barge on her with his hard boots, kicking on her like he was in the field playing football while Mrs Brett scream in agony but that didn't make he stop instead he increase the kicking in her abdomen. 

He wants her to feel more pains that next time in her life, she wouldn't speak back at him again..

The little girl couldn't take much of the scene and ran off. She keeps on running until she found herself out of the house into the farm.. 

She laid on a log and continue crying. She couldn't believe what she had heard. Matthew was her half brother, did Matthew hears about this and pretend to be nice with his mother? She thought to herself while crying. Then, if Matthew knows about this, he wicked just like his mother.

"They're both heartless! " She screams in pains. "I hated you Matthew! And will I forever do!" 

Meanwhile, Matthew was waiting patiently for her in the field. Since one minute have passed and she wasn't back yet. He went looking for her inside the mansion.

On the other side, Mr Mount had gotten the satisfied of her crying and pleading in pains. Then, he left her angrily and went out of the room..

His next attacks had to be Mercy, she can't keep running away from him again. She belongs to him and no other..

Matthew asked all the maids that come across his way but no one seen to know where Elsie is. He remembers very well that she said she was going to get her doll shoes from the mother chamber. Since on one knows about her whereabouts. He then ask for direct to Mrs Brett room, the house was still new to him and he hadn't gotten to know much places in the mansion.

The maids who didn't seen bother that the little boy asked for directions to their lady room, simply show him the way.

He thanks them grateful and head to the direction show to him. They wonder what going on the house as everything seems suspicious to them, even the way Mr Mount acts around the black woman makes them suspect there's something going on between the two and Mrs Brett must be aware but chose to stay slient...

"What do you think about the lord attitude toward the unknown black woman?" One of vthem asked as soon the boy take his leave from the kitchen....

"What can I say, it seen she must have been sleeping with the lord. Don't you see the way she walks into the kitchen like she was the owner of the house. Just one night with the lord and she had already seen herself as a lady" another one answered, she was washing on the dirty dishes in the sinks while the first maid was chopping on some veggies. They're not the only ones in the kitchen but their mouths never seen to stop talking...

"People like her act so innocent in eyes meanwhile they're the devil in human form. I can't believe she can do such a thing after Mrs Brett bought her in just in three days. She had already taken over the whole house"  the first maids said, feeling irritated by the situation at hands. 

The old maids who have been in the house for so many years and know what was going on even in the dark shook their heads.

Such a shame they didn't know what going on but pointing fingers at the wrong person instead of them to accused the one who was doing all these. Them were pouring harmful words on the poor black woman...

"Maybe she had forgotten her place that black lives does not matter in the society. If not she would have known her place" the second maid snapped.

"But that surprised me, I thought the lord hates the black skin. That's the reason he only employs them to work on his farms not in the mansion. What have that black woman did to him that makes him act too strange?" The first maid asked..

"I heard the blacks are filled with dark magic. I believe she must have used that on the lord to fall for her. Because there's no reason for he to sleep with such a woman when we know he hates blacks" the second maid answered, this time she stop what she was doing to talk more.