My past. My future. My hell

"Wait!. What's going on?" Tallulah asked in confusion as she approached the front porch of her father's house. She just stood there looking at the luggages. They all belonged to her and more were being brought out?!?! "Mark and Ty!". She yelled their names and went to hold down her luggages from them at the door. "What is going on?". She asked looking from Mark and then to TY. "Sorry ma'am. Your father's orders". Mark replied. "To have me thrown out of the house?!?!" "Just doing our job ma'am". TY defended with his head slightly bent. "I have to speak with my father".She said sounding a little bit annoyed and moved past them into the house. "Dad? Dad! Daddy!!!". She yelled storming the stairs as she made for his home office. She flung the door open and walked in leaving the door open. "I see you're back Tallulah". Her father said walking towards her and placing a kiss on her forehead. Tallulah stepped away. "Why are my luggages on the front porch as par you orders?". She gave a seconds pause. "Am I being thrown out?". "No my dear". Jett told his daughter as he walked back to his table. Tallualuh sighed in relief closing her eyes with a hand on her chest. "Are we going on a vacation then?".She asked grinning from ear to ear. "Not a vacation Lula. You're going to stay with someone until daddy can sought himself out". Jett said roaming through the heap of files sitting comfortably on his mahogany desk. "Ah-ha!" He exclaimed when he seemed to have found what he was looking for. "Dad! Who is this person and why do I have to stay with her?". "It's a him". Jett corrected walking towards her with a file. He handed it to her as soon as he reached there. "What's in here?". Tallulah asked with a small smile. "Some kind of deed?". She asked opening it and scanning it's content.Her smile dropped. "It's an arranged..... "Marriage". Tallulah finished before he could. "I don't understand ". She confessed in utter confusion as she stood as though frozen . "Didn't know how to go about telling you". He said truthfully as he touched her shoulder. Tallulah slowly moved his hand away as she sat on the nearby leather sofa making it produce a sound. Tears welled up in her eyes and came streaming out in a second. "An arranged marriage". She whispered to herself. "My marriage to a mafia lord". She read placing a finger at it in the document. She slowly covered the file and placed it beside her on the sofa as she hugged herself shaking violently as tears fell down in torrents. "Tallulah dear".Jett called and slowly sat beside her holding her by the shoulder making her shiver slightly. "I...i want to..to be alone d..ad". She muttered in between sobs. Jett got up and waited for a second smoothing her hair with the palm of his hand.He then walked out of the office though reluctant. Tallulah slide from the sofa to the tiled floor slowly taking a handful of her red hair in both hands as though she would rip the whole thing off her scalp. "How could daddy do such a thing?".She asked herself as her eyes darted here and there on the patterned tiled floor. "He's giving me away to pay off his debt". She screamed her lungs out and fell to the floor breaking into more tears. "An arranged marriage. My marriage to a mafia lord". She kept whispering to herself and placed a hand on her head as she started feeling a sharp pain in her head. ••• "We're here ma'am" The bodyguard said to Tallualuh as soon as the limousine came to a holt in the drive way in front of the Hernando mansion. Tallulah looked out through the window at the huge mansion which was now supposedly her new home. She felt her eyes sting and a tear came out of the left eye first then from the right eye. The driver came down and had Tallulah's luggages out of the limo. "Ma'am?". The bodyguard who had introduced himself as Enzo called looking behind and at her. Tallulah looked back at the mansion happy that the sun shades did well to hide her swollen and teary eyes. "I heard you Enzo". She responded slowly. "I don't even want to be here". She spoke more to herself in a whisper than to the other person in the limo with her. Enzo got down from the car and opened the car door for Tallulah. She quickly wiped away the tears before stepping out. Her eyes widened at the number of armed men who surrounded the mansion so she quickened her steps as she followed Enzo inside. An old lady in an apron walked up to Tallualuh with a small smile. "Welcome ma'am. My name is Camille and I will be your cook. What would you like to have?" "Thank you Camille but I'm not hungry". She said gently and walked away climbing unto the flight of stairs with Enzo in front. "Mr. Hernando requests your presence at dinner tonight. A welcome dinner for his …..". Camille paused and cleared her throat. "New wife". Tallulah stopped in her tracks at the mention of new wife. She shut her eyes tightly close and her fingers balled into a fist. What was that man even thinking? That she would happily embrace him as a husband with open arms? "Tell Mr. Hernando that I…am not…interested". She replied in between gritted teeth while trying to sound as calm as she could. Camille's eyes bulged in surprise. Did this young woman know what she was getting herself into by refusing the master's invite? "But ma'am…" "That's final". Tallulah interrupted Camille and walked upstairs briskly. Both Enzo and Tallulah remained silent for a while before they came to a stop in front of Tallulah's room."Ma'am, I advice that you…" Tallulah held a hand up stopping Enzo from speaking any further. "What did Mr. Hernando tell you to do for me?" The confusion on Enzo's face was quite evident. "I don't quite understand ma'am". "What were you employed to do for me?". "To protect you ma'am". He answered "Good! Hence I do not need you as my personal adviser. I have myself for that". "Understood ma'am". Enzo responded and after a slight bow of his head, he walked away. Tallualuh entered the room locking the door behind her. She walked straight to the mirror stand and sat down in front of it.She removed her sun shades and looked at her self in the mirror. Her eyes were swollen and red.Her whole face was swollen. Everything came back to mind making her scream and push everything on the table to the floor making them fall with a disturbing noise. She got up and went to the bed, dragging all the sheets off the mattress with an agonizing scream. She quickly turned towards the window when she stepped on a glass vase which had fallen from the table and shattered into pieces. Tallulah shut her eyes tightly close.The pain she felt under her leg was nothing compared to the way she felt about the whole arranged marriage thing. She heard a knock on the door "Ma'am, are you alright?". Enzo asked from outside. His knock became violent when he did not get a reply. "Ma'am, are you alright?". He asked again. "Please open the door ma'am". Tallulah made no move to either speak nor open the door. "I have no other option than the break down the door. Please do not hurt yourself ma'am". The next thing Tallulah knew was Enzo hitting the door violently with something….His shoulder maybe… The door suddenly flung open as Enzo rushed in with few other men behind him. He stopped and looked around searching for Tallulah. He then heard the clink of glass unto the tiled floor in the bathroom then followed by Tallulah's scream