The door suddenly opened to see a pretty young woman with her pink dress and her long hair, But the young woman did not take much of his time to stare at her until he knew her from the very beginning. “She is no doubt her” he whispered to himself, no doubt that she was Eliza the sister of Edward, she has the same features of her innocent and beautiful brother, but how he did not find her, he always searching for her. How does he find her and she lives with the emperor of this planet? Something he never thought of.
“Dear Joseph, what’s wrong with that woman again?” She said, raising her eyes to the man standing in front of her.
he Approached her mesmerizing beauty and then said: “Do not worry about it my love, just a trivial subjects do not deserve to take your thinking”
The scene for John was disconcerting. Is this what Eliza had aspired to reach after she abandoned her brother, who almost lost his mind after her absence?
Joseph looked around at John who was still staring at them and then said sarcastically: “ and you, my dear guest, I will send you to the planet Gliza again, Victoria will be happy”
“Where is the girl who was with me on the vehicle?” He asked him, ignoring his threats.
Eliza looked at the source of the voice behind her. She did not notice his presence when she entered and was stunned by the shock when she got to know the features of that person, her reaction was similar to John’s when he saw her, she turned her eyes away, ignoring his presence, she did not want to expose herself.
“I do not want to discuss you at this moment. You spoil my moments of happiness. The moon has appeared in broad daylight and I can not miss the opportunity,” he said as he fixed his eyes on the beauty standing in front of him.
“take him back from where you brought him. I have businesses now and later I’ll think about it”
John opened his eyes in the dark and felt a close movement. He did not really sleep, but only closed his eyes, trying to draw a little energy and get some rest. “It’s Eliza.” he was shocked to see her in front of him, did not expect her arrival or maybe she came to make a deal with him to not expose her, she was wearing the same dress with the same look and with each step she approached, his thoughts were growing.
She approached the iron bars and then took a deep breath as if preparing herself for a sharp discussion. “Why did you come here, John?” She said the tone of her voice bore a bit of reproach.
“A really good question,” he said sarcastically, and inside he was burning with pain and anger,
“John, I have chosen my way and will live my life as I wish, as you and my brother have chosen your way.” she was silent a little but he did not answer her. He was drowning in the sea of his dark thoughts until she interrupted his silence. “How could you do this? Is this what you have chosen for yourself? “
He looked up at her and he held his eyebrows in disbelief and then replied sarcastically:
“are you really asking that?,” What have you chosen for yourself, to be the beauty poppet for that idiot? “Is this really what you were hoping for? I can’t believe” she unable to respond, he was right to what he said, but her pride always makes her refuse to admit her mistake, In order to refuse life on the planet Gliza, the bitterness was waiting for her on the planet Kepler. She was forced to cheat Joseph and make him marry her, but this does not deny that she is still a toy for him at any moment will throw her when he gets tired of her beauty.
she tried hard to change the subject and for a moment she remembered her brother Edward, how is he after she left him? She wanted to know how is he doing after she left and she was really want to see him, she said hesitantly” how is Edward doing? She knows that her question is very naïve. It has been days and months since she left, and she never tried to communicate with him”
John stared at her with his brown eyes twinkling, did not wish to reach that question. He was puzzled at that moment and did not know what to do. to tell her or not?
After she felt his silence had long she asked him: “Do you fight again? you need to stop these childish movements”
he almost cries when he heard her words, and the memories of their childish quarrels came back to him,
“John spoke your silence kill me,” she said to him in a trembling voice and then stretched her thin arm through the iron bars to put her palm on his shoulder trying to urge him to speak.
he found that no escape from the truth and that it is his duty to tell her reality without lying, how long will remain ignorant of what happened to her brother?
He looked up at her with sad features. “Your brother Edward” a little silent and said “ died about a week ago”
The last words were enough to make her stand like a fetus without moving a finger, she was only her eyes moving, to smile with sad eyes: “John you say this to make me feel guilty, right? Edward is okay but you angry with me.” she kept silent, searching for an answer behind John’s eyes
“Say anything but do not say this. Please, I’ll do what you want. I’ll go back with you now to ask Edward for amnesty. Okay, do not worry, he’ll accept my apologies quickly,” she said with a muffled voice, but he did not answer her, making her crumble in front of him, putting her hands on her face...
“Please do not say this, John please,” she cried, and then followed “do not joke with me, do not do this to make me confess my mistake. I’ll confess please” She was begging him.
“I wish it was a joke,” he said to her, only enough to make her believe that her brother and everything in her life had gone forever without return.
“Eliza” he whispered to her trying to get her out of her state of mind, but she did not look up at him unless she noticed his whispers she thought he would reverse what he said she was waiting to hear what he had to see the sudden widening of his eyes and his steps back and then the sound of bullets to resonate strongly in The dark prison, Eliza looked at John, taking his last breath Then she screamed with horror, “John.” she turned behind her to find out the source of the bullet and found Joseph with his long stature watching her with terrifying looks, she start yelled out, “John, John, do not leave please, do you hear me?”
John was taking his last breath, trying with all his effort, using all the energy left in his exhausted body to answer Eliza but he couldn’t. There is something important that he should say to her, words that should say no matter what it costs. Among her screams, she heard his last whispers “Edward .... the girl”. These words were not enough to make her understand exactly what he meant.
“Did you think I was so stupid?” Joseph said smiling.
Eliza sitting in front of him, her eyes were swollen with tears, and John was shot dead and left alone to face Joseph’s wrath, he was like a madman after finding her with John in the middle of the night, believing that there was a relationship between them and that she tricked him all the time, dragged her hair around the palace under the eyes of everyone, humiliated her and did not leave in her body a proper part of beatings and bruises.
“You are very stupid because you thought these false claims,” she shouted angrily.
“How dare you scream at me?” He shouted in her face, staring at his red eyes with fear.
he tightens on her neck, She felt her last moments alive under his screams and his voice, which he hated so much and became a nightmare for her.
“His looks at you and your looks at him expose you, and you think I’m stupid, “ Joseph said while she shed tears and closed her eyes trying to ease her pain, she hoped then if she really died in his hands.
He looked angrily at her and she was quiet in his hands without moving a finger, releasing her neck from his grasp. She put her palm on her chest and tried to take a deep breath, she entered in a fit of crying while she attempts to breathe.
Before you learn how to cry, learn that you shouldn’t play like a snake behind my back,” he said harshly and add “ I have honored you and submitted to your request for marriage, and you bite the hand that has been feeding you?
she looked at him with teary eyes, “My relationship with John is not as you think,” she shouted with a muffled voice and then added, “He is a friend of my brother and I went to him to ask about my brother, but he told me that my brother had died a short while ago,” she said. and the same bout of crying came back to her.
Approached her with burdened steps as her heartbeat increased with each step, He stood before her and then leaned toward her to raise her face towards him and then said in a faint tone “Are you trying to make lies to save yourself from punishment?”
she saw the luster of his blue eyes with despair, it is hard to believe her.”I swear to you that’s the truth and this reason when you came I was crying madly”
He stared at her eyes, trying to assess the credibility of her words from her eyes. Her looks were honest to him. He had acquired many experiences that made him know whether the person in front of him was honest or lying.
“why you didn’t tell me about your brother before?” He asked miserably.
She stutters a little bit, she became afraid that she would say something could kill her and then said in a semi-static tone: “ I didn’t find a good time to tell you and I was trying to forget him because I know that he hated me when I emigrated and came here”
she felt an indescribable feeling, the sense of freedom that she loves, as he cut off the rope from her hands, despite its surprise and discomfort, she did not allow those fears to spoil that feeling of freedom.
He returned to stand in front of her and she had glimpsed the glances of happiness and doubt at the same time in her eyes to say “I have released you now but things will not be the same again before I make sure of everything and until then you will stay in your room and under observation and you will obey all my orders without objection, I will send a maid and a nurse to help you heal your wounds, change your clothes and then go to your room I do not want more scandals”
He said his last sentence and then turned his face, but Eliza interrupted him without thinking: “Joseph” she said his name with a hasty rush.
He turned towards her, surprised by her daring to call him in his name, as if nothing had happened, had she thought that he would return to treat her as before just because he gave her freedom.
His eyes staring towards her without asking her why she was calling him, so she decided to take the risk and ask “What are you going to do with the girl?”
He raised his eyebrows admiringly and then asked her trying to lure her: “what girl?”
Her eyes twinkled as she understood what he was aiming for, but she was encouraged to utter “The girl who was with John”
Eliza looked at him with tension and began to sweat perspiring from her entire body followed by the trembling, she has been afraid to lose her freedom again and she just got it.
“why you care with what I will do?” He said in an angry tone to add “unless it belongs to you?” He smiled a sly smile and made her realize that she had fallen back on his madness and anger.
he noticed her tension and her eyes fell on her trembling hands and approached her and lifted her hand, feeling the coolness as if he had caught a snowy piece in his hands.
“why you are so tense and tremble? all the signs of fear on you?” He said as he stared at her eyes,
She took a short breath with difficulty as he prepared for the lava of his burning anger and then answered in a low voice: “it belongs to my brother, I do not know what is the relationship between the two, but John recommended me off her,” and then she silent and felt that she could not speak more as he stares at her.
“and what?” He asked her maliciously, waiting to hear her next lie.
she takes a deep breath then completed: “The girl is very young not more than a few weeks old and I was with you in the previous period, how I gave birth to her” she threw her last paper trying to rid herself of Joseph’s doubts.
Joseph thought that he did not see the child and did not know how old she was, so he could not be sure that she was saying the truth” and then say “What is required of me?”
“Please do not hurt her and do not send her back to Gliza, I did not do anything in my life for my brother, I want to do one thing for him and I do not ask you to let her be with me, but just let her be safe where she lives a normal life,” she said with her sincere words that emanated from her wounded heart, which suffers from remorse and sorrow.
He tried to make a quick decision about her request and then thought that there was no harm in keeping her alive, especially as she is a girl and they suffer from lack of females and that she is a baby who can raise her as he wishes and wants. but The idea of bowing to her requests was bothering him, he presses his teeth angrily and said “I will not hurt the girl, but put in your head that if I find that you trick me or play with your tail with me and betray me, you will live your last days in hell”
She was terrified but she did not say anything as she watched him leave the place.
Chapter 24
Location: Planet Earth
Time: 19 years later
S he walked down the stairs towards the dining room, where her mother waited for her to prepare a delicious breakfast. She sat quietly beside her mother eating breakfast.
“Where is my father? Is not that supposed to be here today?” Violet told her mother
Her mother smiled and then said:”He’s here but lazy like you”
Violet laughed and then said: “What are you doing? You have to be patient with your husband and daughter”
“Yes, unfortunately,” she answered while interrupting them the arrival of the head of the family.
“Good morning,” he said, then sat down.
“Finally, Alfred woke up, you and your daughter beat me up,” said Sandra.
“You know my work a lot and I became old but when I was young I do not remember that I was lazy as your daughter,” he said sarcastically,
“You are not old, you still young, and Violet is also tired. and I’m just tired of awakening you every day.” she smiled, trying to change the subject.
“Do not try to justify your daughter’s laziness and irresponsibility even though she is no longer a child and you still hold her responsibility until this moment,” Alfred said.
Violet got up and pulled her bag and went out angrily, “ I’m late”
Sandra stood sadly watching the closed door in front of her and the sound of his closing still lingered on her ears. She returned where her Alfred sat while he was completing his breakfast indifferent to what had just happened.
“Alfred, please stop bothering the girl,” she said annoyed.
He lifted his head from the plate in front of him to face her glowing eyes with sadness and anger at once and then say coldly: “I do not bother Sandra, then it’s enough to treat her as your pampered child”
“This is not the first time you treated her like this, and this attitude is not the only thing that made her come out so angry,” she said, as her husband’s voice became firm.
“Listen, Sandra, do you remember nineteen years ago when I succumbed to your silly request to keep that girl among us? Do you remember how much I was skeptical about that stupid suggestion? what do you want more than that?” He said, tapping his teeth angrily as Sandra swallowed the shock and she stood staring at him without speaking.
She got up from her shock and angrily raised her voice:” you ruin my happiness, what do you want from me? Just stop bothering her, stop bothering my daughter”
He grabbed the front of her arm and pressed it, saying: “This is not your daughter, Sandra.” he shook her arm madly. “She is not your daughter and will never be your daughter, you didn’t give birth to her, And no matter you heard the word mom from her mouth will not change the fact that you’re sterile Sandra.”
This was the first time that she heard these words, and he did not realize what his tongue was saying to her and that his anger brought him to smash her heart into scattered pieces. That damned word was ringing in her ea
rs to kill her “sterile” Hear it come out of his lips, it was like when the doctor said it more than twenty years ago to frighten her and pull away everything related to happiness.
stood staring at him with empty eyes and as soon as she managed to escape from the bars of that shock until she freed her arm from his hand insanely and shouted at him crying: “Why do you do this to me? Go and live with your wife, who married her like a machine to have children, I did not force you to live with a girl who is not your daughter, go where your children go, I do not want to see you.” She turned her face and her crying rise with her heavy steps.
“Sandra, wait, I’m sorry I did not mean I do not know what’s I’m saying,” he said as he woke up from the coma of his anger that made him unconscious.
He looked at her as she was crying and he understood the folly of what she had said and how immoral and merciless she was to tear her with those words and to burn her wound that could not be healed.
Approached her and hugged her with his apologies and then whispered to her, “I promise you that I will treat her better and that I will not repeat that vicious rhetoric again”
she sat in the cafeteria of the university on one of the big tables in the place with a group of friends who were the source of the noise in the place. She put her hand on her right cheek. She was upset by her friends’ talk about their summer vacations.
“My vacation was fantastic and very imaginative, my father has prepared a special place for us, can you guess “ Angel smiled at the people sitting around her.
“We can not guess, the places are all the same,” said Jack.
“Well, I will not bother you with thinking, he has discovered a beautiful island and he buys it and spent months preparing it for us. He created a place we had never discovered before and we had the most beautiful vacation ever, “said Angel proudly, while Violet a smile of irony over her face.
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