Toxic Bond

Chapter 3: It's All Mr. Brown's Idea

"Well then, Miss Lisa Moore, please enjoy your prison life here from now on," William released her chin, turned around, waved his hand, and walked away very nonchalantly.

He was taking revenge on her. Lisa's face turned pale, and she couldn't utter a single word.

The women's prison was not as peaceful as it seemed on the surface. On her first night in prison, Lisa was yanked out of her sleep.

"What do you want to do?" Lisa looked at the inmates surrounding her with ill intentions and said guardedly, "Don't you dare! Otherwise, I'll call the prison guards."

Upon hearing her words, the female convicts not only were not scared but also looked at each other and burst into laughter, "Hahaha." The leading tough woman among them pointed at Lisa's face and said, "What did you say? Call the prison guards? Hahaha... Did I hear that right? You're going to call the prison guards?"

As she spoke, she swiftly slapped Lisa hard across the face, "Scream! Aren't you going to call the prison guards?"

The slap made Lisa lose her balance, and her ears were ringing.

Lisa steadied herself by holding onto the wall with one hand. After barely standing firm, she unexpectedly struck back at an unforeseen moment.

"Slap!"

The sound of the slap echoed in the cell, and a moment of silence followed. No one had expected that this seemingly delicate woman would have the courage to fight back.

The burly woman was driven mad by Lisa's slap, glaring and growling, "Damn it～You b***h, sisters, beat her up! It doesn't matter if you cripple her or beat her to a pulp. Mr. Brown said it's okay to be rough with this b***h as long as we don't kill her!"

Lisa was shocked, and a sharp pain spread from her heart to every part of her body!……

William! William!! Mr. Brown said so……William!!!!

Lisa's hands and feet were trembling, and her heart was frozen solid!

No wonder, with such a commotion, no prison guards came. No wonder, these tough and burly female convicts were so brazen in their actions!

She looked up at the convicts, stood up, and ran towards the prison door. She clung to the iron bars of the door and shouted for help loudly, "Help! Someone's beating me! Save me! Please come quickly!" Knowing full well that no prison guards would come, she could only make this utterly futile cry for help!

She was gambling, betting that William hadn't instructed these female convicts to "take good care of" her, even though the possibility was extremely slim... She still harbored a faint hope that William hadn't been ruthless with her Lisa and had still shown some mercy.

"Ah...!" Her hair was yanked hard, causing her to stumble and fall face-first to the ground. Lisa had never been so disheveled before!

The next moment, Lisa was pulled up by her hair, beaten and kicked, and she groaned pitifully on the ground, "Ugh～"

Lisa did not receive the "mercy from William" that she had hoped for.

She stopped shouting and let them hit her with their fists and feet, hearing only their cheerful laughter.

Her cries for help were not out of fear of being beaten or pain; it was just because she still believed in that tiny bit of hope and illusion in her heart.

When those people got tired of beating her, they simply climbed onto their beds and went to sleep.

Lisa lay on the ground in pain, tears streaming down her face and smearing her cheeks.

She had never been bullied like this before, never been so disheveled. She had merely fallen in love with a man she shouldn't have loved—William!

Why did she have to bear William's anger and hatred just because of Anna's incident?

After Anna's incident, Lisa had explained to everyone around her, "I didn't harm Anna."

No matter how hard she tried to explain, no one was willing to believe her.

She desperately explained that it wasn't her who invited Anna to "Nightshade Bar"; it was Anna who was curious about what a "bar" was like and invited her to "Nightshade."

In the eyes of others, Lisa Moore was flamboyant and unrestrained, while Anna was innocent, well-behaved, and timid. How could Anna take the initiative to go to a place like a bar?

She said that her car broke down on the way, which was why she arrived late at "Nightshade."

But no one believed her, saying she was making excuses. She was accused of deliberately leaving Anna alone at "Nightshade" to facilitate the group of thugs she had bribed to humiliate Anna and tarnish her innocence.

But she had no reason to do that. Anna often told her, "Sis Lisa, I don't have those feelings for Brother William."

If Anna were William's girlfriend, Lisa would stay away from William! But Anna didn't like William, did she?

In everyone's eyes, Lisa was the malicious female supporting role who had done all sorts of bad things.

The thugs, probably realizing the gravity of the situation, had fled and disappeared without a trace. Who knows where they had run off to? The United States is so vast, and there are plenty of remote mountainous areas where murderers can hide for ten or twenty years. Lisa hoped more than anyone else that these thugs would be caught quickly.

She let her tears flow. From the moment of the incident until she was sent to prison, Lisa had firmly believed that she was innocent and had committed no crime.

But now, she understood that as long as William thought she was guilty, she deserved her punishment and was guilty as charged.

And everything that happened today—it was all Mr. Brown's idea.

Lisa didn't know that in the days to come in prison, there would be countless more "Mr. Brown's ideas" waiting for her.

Without the Moore family, without her records, without her education, having been to prison... William had erased all evidence of Lisa's existence!

Now, Lisa was just a prisoner with the number "926"!

Lisa realized everything and hugged her knees, curling herself up even tighter.……William had completely wiped out any trace of her existence!

Morning

"Hey, wake up. Go clean the toilet..." A female convict roughly pushed Lisa, but then screamed in fright, "Ah! She's dead!"

A bolder female convict rushed over, placed her finger under Lisa's nose, and after a while, detected a faint breath, "Shut up! She's still alive! Call the prison guards quickly!"

Lisa had a lucky escape and was rescued. This may not necessarily be a good thing. Endless humiliation and unrelenting torment can drive a person mad and... completely change a person.