“Speak!” Charles growled.
“I can’t!” Lacey’s voice was louder than his. She wanted to escape and hide, not wanting to face him or these people.
She was in a lot of pain. She shouldn’t have been forced!
“If you don’t speak, who can help you?!” Charles’s face had a darkness that it never had before.
Lacey looked at Charles. Looking at him, she smiled and then cried.
“No one can help me. I am already dirty…” Her lips kept trembling as if she was thinking of something fearful. Her face turned from red to bloodless pale and her eyes were filled with a dead stillness. She stared blankly at Charles, “You are disgusted with me, right?”
Charles shook his head and said no.
Lacey knew that he was lying to her.
“Yes. I gave birth to a child. I was forced!” Lacey laughed loudly after saying that. She laughed until her tears came out laughing, “I was… ruined a long time ago. Those days lasted for three years.”
That year, Lacey’s face still looked childlike but her lovely and innocent appearance could already be faintly seen. At that time, her younger brother was a few years old and he liked to cry at night. Her adoptive father used his crying noises as an excuse to not sleep besides Lacey’s adoptive mother.
One night it rained. It rained very heavily, thunder and lightning rumbled. Even the cows tethered in the house became jittery with fright and kicked the walls irritably.
She was afraid and hid under the quilt that was thin and smelt really bad.
Suddenly, there was the sound of the door opening with a creak.
“Lacey.”
It was her adoptive father’s voice. She poked out her head from under the quilt. Usually, her adoptive father treated her badly. In the daytime, she was required to do chores, feed the cows, mow the grass, wash and cook and even do the work in the field. The only time she wasn’t required to work was when she slept at night.
Her adoptive father was slightly better towards her than her adoptive mother.
However, she was still scared and very cautious, “Dad, why aren’t you sleeping? Is there any more work to do?”
“It’s so late at night, what work would there be to do?” He sat down on the bed and said with a smile, “I saw that it was raining with thunder and lightning. I was afraid that you must be scared, so I came to see you.”
Lacey shook her head quickly, “I am not afraid, Dad. You can go and sleep.”
She was young and didn’t know much. Plus, she had never gone to school. She didn’t understand what her adoptive father was going to do. But still, she was very scared.
“Your mother is not good to you. But I have taught her well, she will be better towards you in the future.”
She instinctively pushed him and kicked him away with her feet. Her resistance and lack of cooperation angered him and he tied up her hands with rope.
She was trapped and could only shout, “Mom…”
Her shouts were drowned in the sound of thunder. Her adoptive father’s expressions were hideous and he slapped her resolutely, “I try to give you a chance, but you are making this hard!”
Half of her face went numb and she tasted blood in her mouth.
Her adoptive father covered her mouth with his hand!
After that night, he often sneaked into her room at night. When she resisted, he would beat her up and refused to give her food during the day.
Later, she did not dare to resist. Three years went by like this, and then she became pregnant. She didn’t understand it at that time. She couldn’t eat enough, her belly was small, and she didn’t get her period. At that time, she didn’t know that it was abnormal.
Until one day at noon, she suddenly had a stomachache. Her adoptive father and mother thought she was sick. As it would have costed money to take her to the hospital, they left her in the room to fend for herself.
At that time, her adoptive mother found out what had happened between her and her adoptive father.
The adoptive mother was extremely angry. The adoptive father had his face scratched by her. They hadn’t even wanted to raise Lacey. She was only given food to eat because she was able to work.
They absolutely didn’t want to raise a child.
Moreover, it was the adoptive father’s illegitimate child. She was even more unwilling to raise it.
“This girl didn’t do it willingly. If this gets out, you will go to jail.” The adoptive mother used the law to suppress him.
The adoptive father did not dare to defy her, “Then how do you think it should be handled?”
She slapped her husband hard across his face, “Now you are anxious to know?!” She was also very angry. Her husband’s infidelity broke her heart.
She vented her anger on Lacey’s body with slaps and kicks, beating her up. When she got tired, she rested for a bit and continued as soon as she regained her strength.
Lacey felt that she was going to die like this.
She thought that she would be relieved if she died.
Her adoptive father pulled his wife, who had lost her mind in anger, away from Lacey, “Don’t beat her. if you kill her then we will be finished.”
Her adoptive mother’s anger extinguished gradually. Now that the things were like this, she wanted to solve the current problem first.
She remembered that there was a well outside the yard in their house…
Lacey knew that begging the adoptive mother wouldn’t help, so she crawled to the adoptive father, “Please help him, you cannot just watch him being given away.”
“Bitch!” Lacey begging the adoptive father had angered the adoptive mother, she took the baby that hadn’t even had the umbilical cord cut to herself, it was all naked, and it still had Lacey’s blood on it, the moment the adoptive mother took him, he cried.
It was a loud and clear voice, very bright.
Lacey crawled over and grabbed the legs of the adoptive mother, there was a trace of blood on the ground, she hugged her legs and bowed down, until her forehead was bleeding, “Please I am begging you don’t throw my child away, I am begging you, I can do anything you want, please…”
“You wish, do you think I didn’t know, you wanted to have this child to fight for the heritage?” The adoptive mother kicked her away.
Lacey passed out.
When she woke up, she was lying alone in a room, the sun was bright outside, she had no idea how long she was out, but she felt very thirsty, she had pain all over her body, and she didn’t even have the strength to get up.
The adoptive father was controlled by his wife, she didn’t allow her to eat or to drink.
She made no sound, just laid there, she wanted to die, to die with her child.
She didn’t know if the neighbors had heard the child cry, if they asked, the adoptive mother just told everyone that Lacey was not messing around with boys in school and got pregnant, but the child died immediately after the birth.
But the little brother spit out the truth that the adoptive mother killed the baby, only the the people in the village knew, but they didn’t want to make trouble, because it was Lacey who got pregnant accidentally, so nobody felt sorry for her.
She had a fever, it lasted a day and a night, she was unconscious.
…
Her eyes were widened, which were filled with blood vessels, “I don’t dare to tell anyone, I am afraid, I am afraid they will look at me with a weird stare, I am afraid, so afraid…”
She was horrified and rolled herself together, as if it just had all happened to her yesterday, “I am more afraid you will know, I am afraid I disgust you, you won’t like me anymore, I am afraid you will hate the me, I am afraid, I am afraid to death.”
As she said so, she looked towards Loredana, “I have seen that Charles cares about you, I am jealous, I envy, I hate, hahaha, I did this on purpose, on purpose, I sent the toy as my child in front of you, hahaha!”
Loredana’ hand suddenly clenched, Lacey’s words were like a hammer that hit her heart.
She was trembling uncontrolled.
Cormac grabbed her clenched fists.
Lacey again looked at Charles, “I hate her, she already has so much, why does she not leave you alone, I am jealous of her, she can have you, I am jealous, she can raise her child so well, I envy her, why is her life so good?”
Charles looked at her and said nothing.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.
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