LOVE, LUST AND REVENGE (1)

Inside her room, Suzy staggered backward and hit the large wooden table in the middle, leading to a devastating fall.

"Don't be mad" She told herself "It could be a prank...Suzy, you are brave....the fearless and death-to-glory girl. He is just...no...he is....." her white porcelain face turned pale and swollen. Her body was twitching from the extremely painful truth.

"No!!! You are not weak...you were never born to be one, Suzy focus, he is trying to get into your head...This is exactly what he wants you to feel. Pain. Skepticism. Hatred. He is like this only for one reason. To get rid of you"

To get rid of you!!!.

Hearing that confirmation from her mouth, she stiffened and never spoke anything as if time had stopped and the entirety around were fading. Unexpectedly, she ran towards the washroom and placed her hands on the sink's horizontal surface, her eyes fixated on the replica of herself through the mirror.

The once bright girl now had puffy red eyes and from the constant biting of her lips, they got little wounds on them.

'We are getting married next month'

'We are getting married next month'

'We are getting married next month'

She covered her ears with her hands and shut her eyes tight. No....please.....please. I just want one thing and that's you. Mark. Please.

'We are getting married next month'

Those words got stuck in her body, mind, and soul. She wanted to stop them from replaying. Frustrated, she screamed and threw the glass body lotion by her right side straight at the mirror. The wide vertical mirror broke into smithereens and fell to the ground.

"How could you be cruel to me? How could you be so heartless? I didn't do anything wrong...all I did was fall in love. I didn't mean to...i...i...i...just fell...what the hell do you want me to do?" She screamed out at the utmost top of her voice. If an outsider saw this scene, they surely would have been pained by such sight.

"I just want to be loved...you know nothing about me...you don't at all. What do I say to you about my family? About those abuses...about being neglected. After I met you, I forgot all those sufferings, I became strong...I turned to a woman. If you leave me too, how do I live safely?"

'You are not my type' She still remembered this sentence. He said brutally to her that day without battling an eye.

Why was this world harsh towards her? Didn't being young comes with a lot of love, and pampering but why was hers complicated? She was barely eighteen and the world turned his back against her.

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Downstairs, the sharp anonymous bang reached the ears of the people. Gloria jolted, and without being told, she ran upstairs to the room.

"You unfilial grandson...I looked up to you but you broke that trust....you could have considered that lad's poor heart before coming up with your foolish plan" Elder Su was extremely pissed as he arose from his seat and stuck his staff on the ground. Mark, who had been pretending a while ago, sat back leisurely, his expression blank. Indifferently without hesitation, he spouted "Years ago you used the same power and connection to quiet down a life-threatening truth...I won't stand to ruin another life just for your abnormal selfish reasons. You may have been able to control Alex but not me. I am not your puppet. The guilt still eating me in my heart will never leave until I turn myself in and nothing can stop me. Not mother or you....not even you Emily" He gave the woman a bitterly cold side look and left for his room.

Elder Su frowned and pointed his cane at his second son "You see that impotent bastard of yours....you'd better put some common sense into him. I won't stand for such disrespect and arrogance"

"Father, your health.....you should take some rest" Isabella uttered and gestured to Butler Jung to accompany the Old Man back to his room. When he was out of sight, Emily excused herself "Aunty, Uncle.... I'll be leaving. I have a pile of files to read...see you some other time. Bye," She waved goodbye and left.

Like Mark, she as well was a well-renowned lawyer. The only difference was, that she was an immigration lawyer while Mark was a corporate one. The two were childhood friends who were more like siblings or at most cat and dog. When the family saw her again after a long time on her course, they rejoiced. But after the whole scene, they felt her arrival was a sham.

Mark, with his concocted elegance, ambled pro to his room and his hand tucked inside his trousers pocket. He heard the flamboyant cry of Gloria reverberate through the second floor. As his heart was furtively cold and Indifferent, he feigned arrogance and progressed into his room. It was like it absolutely meant nothing to him. He inferred he was been too violent and cold-blooded. To him, the decent way to wake a person up was by showing him the harsh side of the world. To him, it was concisely an abnormality to have a coerced forbidden bond with a girl he was more than ten years older. That was inferential and unspoken of. Prevention was better than cure. For now, she would feel erratic, and wounded but gradually, she would come to ease those ridiculous feelings for him.

Never had he had a fair impression of her. Right at the very inception, she used lies and tricks to get into his household. He'd wonder how a girl as naive looking as she was lying so professionally, even making others believe. 

He loathed people who acquired those qualities.

Meanwhile, inside the particular room. Gloria walked in and scrutinized the unexpectedly composing room. She could not help sighing in relief but her heart was yet not alleviated as she marveled 'Where did that ear-pricking sound come from then?'

That's when she was conscious of the loud cry of water. She eyed the bathroom door and called her name but like every call, there was no answer. Right at that moment when she unlatched the door, she saw the feeble figure curling herself like a ball, her arms wrapped around her knees, and her face buried deep inside the creased thighs.

"Oh My God, Suzy" Gloria exclaimed.

Her heart sunk at such scenery. She had long caught sight of the broken pieces of glass that erupted all over the place. Her weak subtle eyes once more looked at the girl squatting so listlessly inside the tub under the running shower.

"Suzy" She called, with her voice cracked and broken. The young girl slightly lifted her perky head and tilted it to the side to see the intruder. Even after that, she snickered and looked away. 

Gloria felt helpless and angry not at her cousin but herself. Suzy was just a young girl who wanted nothing more than love. How could they be surrounded by heartless men? Alex, now Mark.

Avoiding the shreds of glass on the floor, she showcased in front of Suzy.

"I know...your heart feels burnt, it's like your soul has been wrecked out of your body....you want to cry but can't find reasons too because you feel like they were being unfair. Was it wrong? You never planned any of it...what your heart desired wasn't what they gave. Disappointment, Hatred, and distress are the feelings you first felt. Look at me...I also felt that damn pain. Rejection. Being rejected by the one you love the most is like being fed a toxic poison. I have seen how strong-willed you have evolved in those days you dwelled here. I have deemed you as a buddy, younger sister...and someone I do want to treat nice, spoil her to the fullest. Please don't abandon me.... Loneliness is a killer and I don't ever want to return to that past. Forget this pain...one day they will be the ones begging. Suzy fight this, please. Yes I know it is hard....extremely impossible to let go of those feelings but you are a girl...no a determined underaged woman and I believe you can fight this. You can. Grandfather considers you as one of his granddaughters and I acknowledge that as well....will you break our hearts too? Remember, he was the one who fought for your entitled right in returning to school. Aunt disagreed and you know that, right?" She instinctively muttered.

Suzy listened through her left ear and discarded the words through her right.

"I don't like this family anymore...I want to return home, if I started here any longer, I feel I might end my life. Maybe this was why May was feeling insecure and wanted to leave badly....because no one deserves her love. I want to leave" She blurted.

"S....Suzy"

"I never cried before and not even now...none of you are worthy of my tears, not even that thick-headed man. I have the right to fall in love with him....every damn right but he...I hate him. That psychopath man still lives under the shadow of some dead woman. Yeah, so what if I touched upon it...will he kill me? I have been exercising patience since the day I came here. He wants to get married....over my dead body. I will make sure he also feels this rejection. One day Karma will come for him. How it stings and burns every part of one's body. Being young doesn't mean I have no rights. I studied law for a reason"

"Suzy" Gloria didn't know whether to cry or laugh, yell or console her.

Feeling soaked and cold, Suzy tiredly rose from the water-crammed tub and turned the shower off. Of all the uniqueness in her porcelain face, her beautiful pair of golden brown eyes were just exceptional, Gloria even wondered why her cousin didn't like someone as cute as her. Though her face still was a little chubby, that made her incredibly cuter, occupied with that dimple formed on her right cheek whenever she spoke or smiled.

Vexed, she interrogated "You want to leave me? Does that means you never considered me your elder sister? You never liked me?" The twenty-four-year-old woman pouted her lips and faked tears. That time, Suzy had stepped out of the tub, shivering. She sneered "At least show some tears to make believe"

Gloria laughed hectically and erratically. She could not help touching the girl's damp hair and caressing it. Because she was so much taller than her, Gloria kissed her head with a huge smile plastered on her face. Not more than a second passed, when Susy sneezed and blurted sarcastically "If you keep being like this, I might start to think the reason you have no male in your life is that you like the same sex...I am straight" 

"I could be one for you" Gloria took hold of her chin and leaned her face closer. Instantaneously, Suzy was alarmed. She slapped Gloria's hand and frowned "Stop being crazy...I am not against lesbianism but it gets me disgusted sometimes"

"So, you'll stay...hmmm?"

Suzy hissed "I never really said I was leaving" She took the hot towel from the other table and sighed "Gloria, I will be able to get through this right"

She must admit. Gloria's confession touched her heart. 

"And you'll stay by my side all the while?"

Gloria chuckled and gave a curt nod "I promise, now come here, let elder sister give you a kiss....my kisses are juicy and the best"

Suzy grumbled  "I pity your future Man and my brother-in-law....ewwwwwww" she ran out of the bathroom with a disgusted expression. Gloria followed swiftly behind her.

"Suzy, you at the only friend I have, so never leave just because you are angry hmmm?"

"Yeah yeah I got it, can you leave my room now?" Suzy grabbed her wrist, opened the door, and sent her out.

"Give me one kiss...here...just one"

*BANG*

"One day I'll make you willingly kiss me...that's a promise"

Suzy heard her shameless vague words and shook her head, with her heart feeling light. She dabbed the hot towel on her hair and laughed heartily, totally forgetting the heartbreak. Though, some part of her still felt pained.

Downstairs, the members heard the footsteps descending the stairs and looked at the person. Gloria frowned when she saw their eyes asking 'Is she ok?'

She looked away and left the house, with her lips curled up in a wide smile.

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Grand Tisza.

A woman unhappily stepped down from the car and sauntered towards the threshold of the house. Her eyes were conniving and frustrated.

'That man, always ruining my mood'

She felt angry. To worsen it, she was feeling nauseous and tired again.

Assistant Lui hurried out of the house when he was informed that his boss had arrived. It was a weekend, so it did seem weird for him to be there. On his way out, he passed by a young lady and assumed she was the lady's boss. He greeted her but was eventually snubbed unintentionally.

"Why are you here?" The cold and grey cloud emitted over Alex's eyes dissipated a little but from his tone, one could still sense the anger in it.

"Emm new....the news about that man...I got something and it is here in this file"

"WHAT MAN?" 

The two turned only to see May giving them a questioning glance. Out of her pure rage, she forgot her phone charger inside the car and hurriedly came out to get it. That's when she noticed some man saying something to Alex. She felt something doubtful going on with the two and approached them.

"Are you in a shady business? An assassin?" May curiously inquired. Assistant Lui wanted to refute when his boss gave him a side glare. Alex, regardless of being out in the cold, shot a menacing look at the woman "In what right do I have to tell you my occupation?"

'Boss' Assistant Lui gasped to himself 'She's your wife'. It was his first time witnessing this chaotic couple after all.

It was like cold water was poured in May. Her pride had been stepped upon.

"In what right? I am your....." She paused. She saw the sinister look on his face, her lips could not help twitching "Does my right even matter? I am the surrogate woman carrying your damned child, so I have every right to know...I must be aware of what my child's father does for a living for his welfare"

It never came to her mind about his job because she simply didn't care. All she was aware of was that he was making a profitable income and as far as she was told. Mark was in charge of the Su business. What was he doing then?

Amidst her thoughts, she didn't notice the tight look on Alex's face.

"Are you out here to gossip it get this?" He threw the charger at her "Take this and get lost...I have some business to attend to"

May pouted "So ungrateful" She left.

"His location has been found?" Alex was back to business. Assistant Lui nodded and disclosed "He is currently staying in this City...and from the information I got, he seems to be searching for some person"

Alex gritted "Some person". He scoffed, took the file, and left.

" I won't hand her to you....never...act pity all you like, she will never see you again"

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Hello, just wanted to say yesterday was my birthday and I appreciate all of you that greeted me. Thanks.

Much love ❤️