Chapter 24
"Do not leave me!" Lyca moaned as she hugged Stephen tightly.
"Please don't do this again," Stephen said softly as he coaxed Lyca.
"Promise me you'll leave Kelly," she murmured.
She clung tightly to Stephen and didn't seem to want to let him go anymore.
Lyca's mom suddenly came. She was shocked to see that there was blood strewn on the floor.
"Lyca! What did you do? Please don't hurt yourself," tears spontaneously dripped down Lyca's Mom.
“Mommy, forgive me for why I did this because I really love Stephen and I can’t bear to see him marry someone else,” she mewled.
Lyca is the only child of the Dewitt family and the owner of Lyca Shipping lines.
When Lyca was young, she got what she wanted because her parents spoiled her. She grew up getting all the luxuries in life and always getting everything she wanted.
"Please don't hurt yourself, Stephen promises us that he won't leave you," Lyca's mom pleaded as she winked at Stephen to agree with what she said.
Stephen easily got what Lyca's mom meant and he also agreed to calm Lyca down.
Moments later, Lyca's daddy arrived accompanied by two nurses and a doctor.
"Doc, please do everything for my daughter," Lyca's daddy said as he shot Stephen a sharp stare.
Meanwhile, Kelly left the hotel because everyone had already left but Stephen still did not call her.
"What could have happened to Lyca?" Kelly was worried because it was ten o'clock at night but she still hadn't received a message from Stephen.
"What am I going to do? I don't have a ride home," she wailed.
While she was waiting for a ride, the message alert tone of her cellphone suddenly rang. She quickly picked up her cellphone in her sling bag to check the content of the message.
"My friend will pick you up there."
-Stephen
Kelly wondered why Stephen used a different number and she couldn’t help but think badly.
“Why didn’t he even call me HONEY,” she wondered.
Although Kelly was apprehensive about the message she received, she still hoped to get home safely.
She waited patiently and ten minutes later a black van pulled up in front of her.
"Are you Kelly?" asked the woman who peered out the window of the van.
"Yes I am," Kelly replied quickly because she knew Stephen's friends were inside the van.
"Ride here, Stephen ordered us to fetch you here," the woman said in a friendly voice.
Kelly quickly stepped into the van and saw there were three women inside and a male driver.
"Thank you so much for picking me up here."
Kelly sat up slowly and she heard the three women laughing behind her.
She ignored the laughter of the three women and didn't even look behind her.
"Where is your address?" the driver asked her.
"Just take me to the WT village at the corner of the gas station," Kelly replied politely.
The driver nodded and continued driving.
Everything was quiet but suddenly the three women made noise.
"Is she the one referred to as the filthy woman?" a woman suddenly asked.
“There’s no doubt, she’s really beautiful and we have nothing against her when it comes to beauty," Kelly heard the admiration of another woman behind her.
But suddenly the three women laughed and their voices were obviously teasing.
Kelly remained silent and ignored the teasing of the women behind her but suddenly a woman approached her.
"Did you really seduce Stephen?" the woman asked in her cursed voice.
"I don't know what you said," Kelly replied. She did not glance at the woman who approached her and she focused her gaze on the driver.
"If you don't flirt, you probably won't be able to ride in such a nice car!" the woman insulted her.
The two women laughed and applauded as they rejoiced at the insult done to Kelly by one of their companions.
“You don’t know anything about my life story so don’t judge me,” Kelly exhaled.
It was as if her heart was broken by every judgmental word thrown at her.
"What do you mean we don't know anything about your life?" the woman in front of her applauded.
"We know how filthy you are! Stephen just picked you up on the street!"
The three women laughed and teased Kelly who seemed to belittle her.
"Do you think we didn't know you weren't educated? You can't even read and write! Stick that to your nails because you're just rubbish!" the woman scoffed at her.
Kelly admitted to herself that she was not highly educated but she could read, write and count.
"Is that the behavior you learned in the prestigious schools you attend?" she whined.
"You have no right to insult us because you know nothing and you're just a maid! Even if you save all your wages for a whole year you won't be able to pay for a semester of our school!" she ranted.
"Yes, I'm poorly educated and I'm just a maid but I know how to respect my fellow human beings unlike you who only knows how to mock others!" Kelly yelled.
"Are you annoying me huh!" the woman's cheeks flushed as she stared sharply at Kelly.
The woman motioned to her two companions and they quickly approached them.
"I want to give this woman a lesson because she's so stubborn!" she suggested to her female companions.
Kelly was nervous and she shivered.
She saw that the woman's arm had a small red rose tattoo.
"What are you going to do? Have mercy on me," Kelly said in her pitiful voice.
Suddenly the three women laughed with delight.
Kelly couldn't see the faces of the three women very well because it was dim inside the van.
"Do you know how to beg now? You used to be brave, but now you're a coward and you look like a wet chick!" the woman with tattoo taunted her.
The two women approached Kelly and held her two hands.
"What are you going to do? Let go of my hands!" Kelly struggled but the women tightened their grip on her hand even more.
Suddenly the driver stopped.
"What are you doing to her?" the driver asked the women.
"Don't interfere with us, do your job!" the woman scolded the driver.
The driver did nothing and he continued driving.
“Your noise disturbs my driving,” he reasoned.
Kelly noticed that someone pulled at her long hair. The woman with the minimalist tattoo put a handkerchief over her mouth so she couldn’t create any noise.
The car stalled and the handkerchief used to cover her mouth fell.
"Help! Help!" Kelly shouted in her loud voice.