CHAPTER1
PUSHED
Lisa's pov
“Keep your mouth shut and do as I say”he told me in an icy tone.“Remember that”.Maxwell Brown,my uncle spoke.
“If you deliberately set out to disobey me….
I laughed.” What will you do?”
“Is that how you speak to me now?”He walked to where I stood and slapped me across my cheek.
“Must you show you weren’t brought up properly?,ragged doll orphan”.
I grit her teeth and bit my tongue.I had hit this stone and bruised myself so many times that I had lost count.I wondered why I had never ran away from home.It was the only semblance of a home I had ever known.
“Is that all you wanted to talk to me about?”I asked softly,keeping my voice as calm as I could.
“You either do as I say or leave this house!”
We stared at each other,my head pounding dully,exhaustion seeping through my bones and pains giving way to my eye lids.But I didn’t even twitch.i stood up and turned to leave.
“You have no right to make decisions about anything under this roof”Maxwell's voice stopped me .”When it comes to death,you are mine”.
My body almost quivered with rage before I locked it in place.The wheels in my mind started to churn.
“You still need me”I informed him coolly.
Maxwell paused,before speaking.”Not anymore”
I shrugged.”Go ahead and kill me,do it real quick”.
“You dare speak to me like that!?”
Before he could utter a word,I walked out of the study and towards my own wing, quickening my steps once I was on my own.
“Lisa Grey!!”
“Come here spoiled brat!!”
“I'd teach you a lesson you'd never forget”
Maxwell kept calling at me as I took large steps to my room.
I hurried up to my room and once inside,I shut the door with a loud bang .Undressing and freshening up,I lay on my bed still.Then,tired and numb I grabbed my pillow and sighed as I stared out the window.
Not for the umpteenth time in my life,it hit me how truly alone I was.
Maxwell Brown wanted a puppet he could control and parade around.I knew he'd been serious about killing me.
No.It wasn't his death claim s***h threat that bothered me much.It was his action.Tonight was the first time uncle Max was laying a finger on me .
There was something going on with him,I thought as I let large balls of tears stream down my face,wetting my bed.
****
Indecision was weighing me down,where my emotions were concerned.
Nobody had knocked on my door or called me down for breakfast.
My stomach grumbled and I placed my hands on it.
I didn't know why that worried me much ,but for some reason I couldn't shake the feeling that something was going to happen.Something I didn't like by any means.i wouldn't anyway,not if uncle Max was perpetrating it.
“I can't keep on hiding here while I'm hungry”I grumbled.
I walked out of my room, placing my sweaty hand on my gorgeous neckpiece.It was a gift from my late parents to me on my 15th birthday.
Shaking my head,and shoving the thought of uncle Max aside,I took in the beautiful,sunlit lawns of the mansion.i was going to run away , disappear and come back to avenge my parents death.
Feeling strength seeping into me with that decision,I started walking towards the kitchen,the eyes of Max's bodyguards following me ,I saw the man in question sitting in the living room.
He saw me enter and motioned with his finger to come which irritated me to no extent.
“We are dining out tonight at crimson's,dress accordingly”.
“Today is my parents death anniversary, remember”
“I don't care,do as I've said”
“And if I don't?”
“You want to taste my wrath Lisa”
“Like I care,”she laughed wryly.
“A bold claim”
I nodded and waited for him to say anything more,he raised his fingers up and dismissed me.
Hands clenched in fists,I turned away forgetting why I came and walked to my wing ,locking my door firmly behind me.
Taking a deep breath, I stood up and headed towards the bathroom.For some reason I felt knots beneath my stomach.
A firm knock on my door startled me,
“Get dressed young miss,”Max's bodyguards said.
“Leave me alone!”I screamed.
“Not without you ma'am”
“Are you moving mad?”
“No ma'am”
“Then get the hell out!!”I screamed louder and burst into tears.
The blood rushing inside me was crimson,the blood I wanted out of the man's nose was crimson.
***
I sat in the restaurant,at the place reserved for Maxwell Brown's dinner.
Dressed appropriately in a black sleeveless backless dress that flared out in a skirt from my waist.
Four other men sat across the table excluding Maxwell Brown .
My nape prickled
I felt eyes on me.
I tensed,the fine hairs on the back of my neck standing on end.
My breath hitched
I felt those eyes caress every inch of my exposed back.
I felt intense hate oozing from those eyes.
Letting my gaze wander,trying to fathom who’s gaze it was.
Closing my eyes,inhaling softly,I picked my glass of wine and took a big gulp.
I was absent minded and couldn’t pick anything from Maxwell's conversation with the men.
Maxwell didn’t address me and I kept on shoving food down my throat.
With disgust plastered on my face, I picked up her phone and was about to stand.
“Drop that phone Lisa”
“At last somebody paid attention to me”
“Watch your tongue”
“That’s what I’ve done since we got here”
“Must you always show you weren’t raised properly!?”
“Must you always re..mi.nd me of..”I couldn't complete my statement and burst into sobs.
I banged the table and got up, turning towards the corridor not sparing anyone a single glance,my body was trembling with rage.
Entering the restroom, I stared at myself in the mirror, placing my hands on the clean granite counter.I looked at the mirror again as the light from the windows blurred a bit,the world spinning slightly.
Did someone spike my drink?
“No,No,No,this could not be happening,at least not in the toilet!”.
Shaking my head to clear the haze so I could walk,I turned the doorknob and tried to take steps.
I swayed hard,almost tipping over.
I blinked,my tongue swollen as the world spun a little more with my legs jelly.My lids got heavier,fear pooled in my stomach as I I drowned in the assumption of how slowly I'd die.
Suddenly I felt a hand gripping her and she passed out.
