The Villainess' Vengeance

Chapter 8: The Plan

It has been a few days since that night. The first night that he had Lucy in his arms again. And whenever the night came after that, Sean always seeks her warmth and he wanted her again and again. I think my colleagues have been noticing my lack of sleep, Sean mused as he was looking at himself in the mirror in the bathroom.

His bloodshot eyes.

The stubbles that he refused to shave.

His hair was disheveled all the time as someone was raking their fingers through it.

Well, blame Lucy and her fingers. There were claw marks on his back as Sean was looking at everything else. He was smiling because those claw marks and disheveled hair was for her to tell him that she could hurt me if she can. Sean needs to get clean up.

Well, I know she can but I will never let her, Sean mused as he was washing his face before wiping it clean with a dry towel. Then, he left the bathroom.

Sean was walking down the hall to the conference room. Do you know why he called it 'the conference room'? Sean was meeting with his other colleague that was doing the same experiment on his patient.

“Hey, Laverte, got anything from your patient?” Sean asked as he went to his desk and dumped another note of Lucia’s mind. It was baffling really when she opened her mouth, Sean just could not stop staring at it, let alone taking notes.

This is what you get after spending one night with her, his mind reminded him why sleeping in her bed again was a bad idea. But of course, Sean did not listen. He was too stubborn for that.

“Well, I don’t have much. Celine was reclusive and I think I have to approach another method with her,” Laverte said as he looked at Sean knowingly. He knows what Laverte was telling him.

The other method.

That method was forbidden in the world of psychiatry but here at this rehabilitation center, Sean was the boss and any method was welcome to try. Even f*****g your patient.

Especially f*****g your patient who turned out to be your ex-lover, his dark mind said before Sean was nodding at the young doctor that went with the name of Simone Laverte.

“So, will you do it?” Sean asked him as he was looking at the young man. Laverte gulped before his face was red. Sean did not understand why he was acting like this but maybe he has his embarrassment to talk about s*x in the public.

“I’ll think about it,” the young doctor said as he was scurrying away from Sean, trying to get away without being asked for another question from him. Sean shook his head before he looked at another two empty desks in this room.

They were supposed to be here but Sean thinks it was not okay to push the administration to treat people with their mental illness the same as Lucia. He sighed before he was rubbing his neck. Sean felt so tired and oh so aroused. What has that vixen put in my system? I cannot get enough of her, Sean mused before he was considering visiting Lucia again.

In the broad daylight.

“f**k it,” Sean said before he ran toward her cell in the broad daylight as Sean was hurrying his steps to meet the woman who has stolen his heart.

However, when Sean was in the room, there was no sign of her. He looked everywhere and Sean checked the security footage of her building. She has been escorted out by someone that looked much like her. Her relative, perhaps? Sean mused when there was something stirred inside his chest.

"Bloody hell," he mumbled before he was going to the main building after finding out Lucia was being escorted there.

Sean went to follow the instruction to go to the main building. Since this center was not open for the public, he can only guess that this person was not clean nor he will be if he does anything to his Lucia.

And right on time as Sean saw that man with his woman. He has considered strangling that man on sight as Lucia was doing something that Sean did not like at all.

Not one bit.

“Stop right there,” Sean said as he saw the same man from the footage and Lucia was walking beside him, holding his arm.

What the f**k! He growled before he hurried his steps toward them.

They turned and Sean can see that Lucia was smirking at him. He gritted his teeth before Sean took a deep breath and turned to look at the man in question.

I will not fall for her manipulation, not now, not ever, Sean mused but it was hard to concentrate when the blue orbs that have been haunting his dreams now were staring at him.

“Yes?” The man asked Sean as his voice was thick with an Italian accent. Relatives, that’s my conclusion, Sean thought before he was clearing his throat, linking his hands at the back before he was regarding the young man and his Lucia.

She will pay for this later, Sean mused before the young doctor was smiling at the couple.

“I am Dr. Sean Copper and you were holding my patient. I want to know who you are,” He said before the amusement was on the man’s face. The man turned to look at Lucia as he was talking in a foreign language.

Damn them with their secret language, Sean thought as he was looking at their exchanges before Lucia was smiling at him. The man turned to look at me before he was eyeing Sean up and down.

“Well, it was her visiting time. Can’t she spend some quality time with her brother?” The man said before Lucia was trying to hide her smile at Sean's sudden discomfort. Brother? She never mentioned that before, Sean mused before he remembered what happened between them those many years ago.

Research.

Fucking.

Sleeping.

No conversation outside of academia.

Maybe that's why Sean never knew that Lucia possibly has a brother of her own. He felt so stupid to go be jealous over a family member. Wait, was he jealous? Sean shook his head before he smiled before he was assessing the siblings. There were too many secrets between him and Lucia. Sean was determined to uncover it.

Even if he has to do it the hard way.

“I see, I thought you were someone else. If the relatives were trying to spend some time, then I will not stop you then. Lucia,” Sean said before he nodded at Lucia. She was trying to hide her smile before clearing her throat.

“Dr. Sean,” Lucia said formally before the siblings went out of the building, leaving Sean wondered what will they talk about.

*****

“So, he was the one,” Leo said as they were walking on the island. Lucia doesn't think that Leo would be coming here as he was reclusive of his life and he did try to get her into a mental hospital once. Maybe this will ease his mind to know that she was safe here. Safe for everyone else’s sake, Lucia mused before she sensed that Leo was looking at her.

Assessing her. Calculating her motive.

“You look unhappy,” he chided as they were in the garden and they stopped as Lucia and Leo sat on the bench, facing the forbidden building in a distance. They never go there and when Lucia asked Sean about it, he just shrugged it before he went to his room.

Sean never stays the night as they just f****d a few times and he will kiss her only in that heated moment. Afterward, he just nodded his head and went away. Lucia felt like a slap at that gesture but they did make a deal. Keep it only s*x and nothing more.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, her mind said as Lucia was shaking her thought on that.

“So, has the treatment been well?” Leo asked as he was smiling at her. Lucia smiled as well before she was leaning up to feel the heat of the sunny day. It’s been forever since Lucia has been out in the open air and sunlight.

“Well, it was and I think the doctor was very capable of what he’s doing,” She said as she was closing her eyes, feeling the stare of her brother onto her face.

“Is that so?” Leo asked before Lucia peeked at him under her lashes.

“Take my word for it. I am doing fine, great actually that they allow you to visit and take me out to the garden,” She said as Lucia was smiling at him. Leo sighed before he rubbed his face.

“I will be moving out of Italy, Lucy, and I will not visit you anymore,” he said as Lucis knows there must be something that he wanted to tell if he came here from Italy.

Seychelles, that’s where the facilities were right now. Right in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It was a nice island because they know sick people either die swimming with sharks or maybe from an overdose. Suicide will never reach the main island.

One time Lucia saw the big boat that was carrying supplies and employees that will be working on the island. She caught a glimpse of Sean greeting the captain and paid him handsomely. She just assumed it was a man as he was wearing breeches and a really large hat.

So, maybe this island belongs to him and Lucia has to get through him if she wanted to get out of here.

“So, I was coming to say goodbye,” Leo said as Lucia was turning to look at him. Her brother was sad but Lucia thinks her brother needed this. He needed her to be good and normal again. Lucia took his hands into hers and smiled at him.

“Don’t worry about me, I will be fine,” She said as she squeezed him. Lucia smiled before Leo smiled at her. There was hope in his eyes.

Later that afternoon, Lucia was standing in the lobby as the guards were on her side before she saw her brother walked through the lobby door. It was heartbreaking but Lucia needs to be strong. The plan will be in motion anytime she wanted and she thought it’s time to carry it out.