Hunted Passion

Chapter 2: The bomb

Lizzy's pov

Mrs. Darwin quickly let go of me in surprise while Mr. Darwin stood confused.

"What is wrong dear?" Mr. Darwin asked me.

I could barely speak and continued crying.

"She must have been going through a lot." Mrs. Darwin said to her husband.

"Come in dear and you can tell us what happened to you." Mrs. Darwin told me as she gently pushed me into the cafe.

It was still very early in the morning so there was only one customer in the cafe.

Mrs. Darwin took me to a chair at the far end of the room and we all sat down including Mr. Darwin.

"So what happened to you dear? Tell us, what is your story?" Mrs. Darwin asked me again with much gentleness in her voice.

I began to contemplate if I should tell them about my life or not but seeing the calmness and love in their faces I decided to tell them.

"You can trust us dear." Mr. Darwin told me. "Your secrets are safe with us." He added.

I nodded my head and started telling them my story.

I told them how I had lost my family at a very young age and to start staying with my aunt who never treated me as her own.

I told them how I was turned into a slave and treated like one.

It took much courage from me but I finally opened up to them about the s****l abuse I suffered at the hands of my cousin.

They felt pained by my sufferings but there was never a look of pity on their faces and that made me glad.

I would have hated it had I seen pity on their faces. That would have been all I needed to run away from them.

I had not run away from home to live in pity.

"When I could not take it anymore, I decided to run away last night and that was when Mr. Darwin saw me and helped me," I explained.

"So was your aunt aware of what her son was doing to you?" Mrs. Darwin asked me.

"The first time it happened, I told her but she refused to believe me and she beat the daylight out of me," I answered.

"What?" Mr and Mrs. Darwin exclaimed in shock.

"Yeah, and she and her husband are not always around so my cousin had free reign, and the day she finally caught him, she turned a blind eye and accused me of seducing her son who she claims was innocent until I came into the picture," I explained.

The Darwin's were shocked.

"That's barbaric!" Mr. Darwin shouted. "We should get them arrested and sued in court for that!" He suggested.

"No please." I pleaded with them. "I just want to put the past behind me and move on," I said to him.

"What is your name?" Mr. Darwin asked me for the first time since we met yesterday night.

"Elizabeth but you can call me Lizzy," I answered.

"Alright Lizzy, if that's what you want, then we are glad to help you achieve that." Mrs. Darwin said.

"How would you do that?" I asked as my face lit up with surprise.

The Darwin looked at each other and smiled.

"My husband and I have decided to let you stay with us." Mrs. Darwin announced.

I was surprised and happy at the same time.

"And you can work in the cafe with us and we will pay you." Mr. Darwin added.

"Thank you so much, I appreciate it, please allow me to work in the cafe without any payment as my way of saying thank you," I suggested to them.

"No way! We are taking you as our daughter! We already have a daughter but you will be our second daughter and I'm sure Dorthy would be happy to have a new sister." Mrs. Darwin said and I was happy.

But Dorthy was not!

She looked at me with an angry face, staring daggers at me the moment she saw me. She felt like I was a threat and I did not blame her.

"Don't you think that you'll be able to take my place? My parents are just being charitable. I will never accept you as my sister because I know you're coming to take away my parents' love from me. I refuse to share my parents with you. Just know that forever in my heart, I will see you as a threat and a thief." She said to me as she led me to the room that I would share with her.

I knew she was just being jealous, so I refused to let what she said get to me.

From that day onward, I did everything to please Mr and Mrs. Darwin. They put me in the same school as their daughter.

My life was never the same because she was popular in school, I was also forced to be popular.

But then, I was neglected and bullied by everybody. While she stood from afar and watched them deal with me the way they seemed fit.

It continued like that until we all grew up and had to go to college.

I went to a different college from Dorthy and I became an accountant.

I usually visit Mr. and Mrs. Darwin from time to time from college but because I didn't want to run into Dorthy, I made sure I came around when she was never at home.

I continued like that until one day, I received a call from Dorthy just after I graduated.

I was already thinking about how I would survive in the house with Dorthy because I had nowhere else to go

I was surprised because Dorthy had never called me for once.

I was even more surprised how she got my number.

"Hello," I said immediately I picked up the call.

"Your presence is needed in the hospital now. My parents are dead!" She announced and the phone fell from my hands.

The funeral came quickly and everything was a blur to me.

They had died in a plane crash, but it felt like it was my world that came crashing down.

After the funeral, Dorthy walked up to me with a look of anger on her face.

"You had better do this for me or else I will throw you out of the house." She said to me.

"Do what for you?" I asked her.

"Marry someone on my behalf." She dropped the bomb.