THE SECOND CHANCE

Episode Two

A CONSTANT MALTREATMENT

Alicia's Pov

"What!" Mistress Mia said again, looking at me with so much anger as she descended from the stairs.

"You are unbelievable, you know, I guess you have become so familiar with me that you think that you now have the guts to falsely accuse and blame me for your incompetence." Mistress Mia said to me as she gently dropped the stained tea cup on the table again.

I mentally prepared myself to receive a dirty slap from her, but I never expected her to do what she did. I found myself flying high and landing painfully on the ground on my bottom as she violently kicked me.

I tried to scramble quickly to my feet, but I instantly felt an immense pain in my leg as I tried to stand up, and I knew that I had injured my leg.

"Please, Mistress Mia, I didn't mean to accuse you, please, I was just too excited that I overstepped my boundaries." I pleaded with her.

"I know right, you were so excited to find the culprit that you felt accusing me without knowing the main truth was the best?" She asked angrily.

"No Mistress Mia." I said, shivering in fear and groaning in pain.

"It does not matter whether you say yes or no, you are dead meat anyway, and I will deal with you so that next time you will think twice before having any thoughts at all about me in that filthy mind of yours." Mistress Mia said wickedly.

I looked towards Madam Beatrice, who had been silent all the while Mistress Mia and I were conversing. I looked at Madam Beatrice hoping that she would be able to come to my rescue, but all I could see was how she was grinning wickedly, so happy that I had been put in that situation.

"Madam Beatrice, please help me beg Mistress Mia for me. I am really sorry ma, I didn't mean to accuse her falsely, please Madam Beatrice. I pleaded in tears with hope that my tears would be able to move her towards having compassion, but I was wrong.

Look here, you useless Omega. I will even assist Mia with dealing with you. How dare you think of accusing my daughter for being the reason you could not properly do your job! Madam Beatrice asked angrily.

"I am truly sorry ma, it was not intentional." I pleaded again.

Your apologies right now mean nothing. In fact, you're apologizing now is what I actually call medicine after death. It's of no use and besides, come to think of it, were you not the one that washed the cups this morning, so how is it possible that the cup you claimed to have washed this morning was still stained, that it could even still stain the table," Madam Beatrice asked me.

I knew that it was when Mistress Mia was making the tea that the cup had gotten stained. Since the common knowledge that Mistress Mia was clumsy, I the believed that some of the tea spilled on the table when she was turning it into the tea cup, and she must have placed the cup on the stained table without thinking about it, and then she carried the tea cup to the sitting room to drink it, and then she placed it on already cleaned table.

Twark! Madam Beatrice gave me another dirty slap for not answering her.

"How many times have I warned you, this i***t, that you should never keep me quiet whenever I asked you a question. uh, how many times?!" Madam Beatrice asked, raising her voice.

I knew that this was what might have happened, but I was so scared of what Mistress Mia would do to me more if I dared explain what I thought had happened, so I did not want to talk and, in the process of trying to protect myself from incurring more,, of Mistress Mia's wrath, I had forgotten, number one rule of Madam Beatrice which is 'never ever keep her quiet when she asked you a question.'

"I am sorry Madam Beatrice." I quickly apologized and began to explain to her what I thought happened to the tea cup and how it would be able to stain the center table.

"It's like you never ever learned anything." Mistress Mia said immediately. I finished my explanation to Madam Beatrice.

She had been looking for what she could use to flog me but had stopped in her search when she heard me explaining things to Madam Beatrice.

"I have not finished dealing with you for the first one you did, you are now even adding to it, you are indeed stupid and gullible and told I will make sure you pay for your stupidity." Mistress Mia threatened as she waled menacingly towards me.

I shifted back involuntarily, dragging myself backward because I was still sitting on the floor as I prepared myself for the next inhumane thing she was going to do to me, when we heard a loud scream coming out from Master Roland's room, and before we could wonder what was wrong and go to investigate it, we saw Master Roland rushing down the stairs towards us with his trousers stained.

He rushed down to us and, without saying anything to anyone, he walked towards me and gave me the hardest slap anyone had ever given to me. The slap was so forceful that I felt a trickle of urine fall down my legs and I tried to hold it in, but I could not.

"You useless b***h, if you know that you cannot do your work properly, then why do you now start it in the first place?!" He asked seriously, angry and shouting.

"What happened son?" Madam Beatrice asked Master Roland, concerned and confused by his actions.

Mother, can you imagine that this useless girl left a bucket of soapy water and mop stick in my room and the ground was not even dry. I was coming back from a meeting I had with father this morning in his study and I stepped on the wet floor and slipped directly into the dirty water and mop stick. Just imagine, look at my clothes! Master Roland pointed out as he explained what happened to his mother and sister.

It was then I remembered that I was actually mopping the house before Madam Beatrice called me and I had hastily left the bucket of water and mop stick thinking that I would come back right inside, but I was wrong as I never expected things to turn out the way they did.

"I am so sorry, Master Roland, it was not intentional." I pleaded with him.

"I guess apologizing is now your new food because you have been doing a lot of it this morning." Madam Beatrice said.

I don't have the time to waste on you. I will make sure I deal with you in such a way that nobody has ever done that you will beg for death, Master Roland threatened as he dragged me to my feet while Mistress Mia was laughing excitedly.

"Gosh! What is that stench?" Madam Beatrice asked, and they all turned to look at me.

"What, you urinated on your body? You are such a weakling!" Mistress Mia said, holding her nose.

"You are so bold that you had the guts to urinate on my floor, you are completely finished today." Madam Beatrice said angrily as she called the guards, who immediately appeared.

"Take this thing here to the house prison and do not give her food and water till I tell you to, understand?" Madam Beatrice said.

"Yes ma!" The two guards said in unison as they dragged me to the

House prison and threw me inside like a sack of rice.

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