Chapter 1 — Escaped
The year 2015, the unusual experiences Luna had in her life at the hands of her husband before she became beautiful and successful in life now.
Lioren wondered, why did her husband do something he hadn't done in a long time?
Lioren knew that her husband was a psychopath but, she couldn't imagine that her husband would bring his back because he was happy with them and they had started a family.
There was a reason why her husband's behavior had returned. Lioren thought this was why she ran away from their children, afraid that she would become like his husband.
Lioren was lying on the floor crying when her husband hit her because she would run away from him for what he was doing to her.
Her husband shouted and asked, "Where are my children!" she couldn't answer right away because of his appearance.
When her husband was about to hit her, she threw a hot water bottle on the stove when she suddenly stood up even though she was already weak.
"I don't want them to be like you!" Lioren cried to her husband when she fell down after throwing the kettle at her husband.
He grabbed her and slapped her in the face.
"They're mine!" Rhaen shouted, holding his wife's hair.
"Rha—, leave me alone!" Lioren stammered to her husband, unable to breathe.
Lioren fled with their three children when the witness who saw the brutal death of her family told her who killed her.
"Lioren...your husband is a monster, he's not human...you and your children should leave.." began the witness who saw the death of her family.
"My husband can't do that to my family, brother Casper, you know him." Lioren said to her brother Link's childhood friend.
"He did it, Lioren, I saw what he did with my own two eyes." Casper said as he stared at his friend's sister.
Lioren thought her husband's psychopathy had disappeared since they had children because she saw him change.
Her husband's parents were even more angry with them when they moved out of their homes.
Lioren looked up at her husband crying and said, "Why have you changed, Rhaen? You weren't like that before and when we were together we even started a family even though I knew you were a psychopath I accepted you because I love you I never thought you would involve my family too? They accepted you with all their hearts even though they were afraid of you and your family."
Rhaen was stunned and let go of his wife Luna ran away with their three children from their home. His wife caught up with him so this is what happened to her at his hands.
"Go away!" Rhaen shouted at his wife Lioren saw his wife's angry face she wanted to approach him but she was afraid of what would be done to her.
"Sorry, Papa, I'm leaving I'll take our children with me." Lioren said to her husband her face was bruised and she forced herself to stand on the floor.
No words came out of Rhaen's mouth. He just stared at Luna's face crying in front of him and still lying on the floor.
Lioren's duster was covered in blood.
"Go away!" Rhaen shouted at his wife.
"Change, Rhaen so that you can see our children again, I'm no longer afraid of facing you, I won't deny you our three children." Lioren said and slowly walked out of their house.
Even though Lioren couldn't leave her husband in this state.
Lioren was thinking about their children, so she and her children had to stay away from her husband.
Rhaen shouted at her wife, "Don't come back! Love a man who isn't like me."
Rhaen was afraid that her husband's psychopathic nature would flow into her child's blood.
Lioren left their house with her duster covered in blood, leaving her estranged husband in their house. Lioren went with her three children to her brother's friend's house, it was dark when she went there, she couldn't do anything and even though she was scared, she had to go back to her three children.
"Mama!" her son Deyr called when he saw her.
Lioren was crying, staring at her three children. Her brother's friend met her outside his house.
"W-what the hell—you have blood on your clothes, Mama?" Vhenn, the eldest son of Lioren and Rhaen, exclaimed in surprise, no one said a word to them.
"Mama, where's Papa?" Vale searched for Lioren and Rhaen's youngest child, looking behind her Mom to find his Papa.
"We'll leave your dad here and the three of us will get away from here," Lioren exclaimed directly, her three children were surprised by what she said.
"Did Papa do this to you, Mama, did Papa beat you? Is that why you didn't send us home from our school earlier?" Deyr interrupted Lioren and Rhaen's second child, looking back and forth between them.
"Yes, your father hit your mother." their mother next to them interrupted.
Lioren didn't speak right away and just cried in front of her three children.
"Do you like hurting your Mama?" Lioren's brother's friend asked.
"Papa can't hurt Mama!" Vale sobbed next to her Mama.
"He-" Vhenn spoke when Lioren spoke for herself.
"Can you see the blood on my duster, Vhenn, that's why we ran away from him because I didn't want your Papa to hurt you too, I was just going to get our clothes when he caught up with me at home and this is what he did, Do you think I'd leave your Papa? You know, Vhenn, you have a psychopath family on your Papa's side, I thought he had changed, but he didn't...he was the reason and you'll never see your grandparents, uncles, and aunts in the Lacson family again." Lioren explained to her eldest son.
She handed Lioren a towel and just slapped it on the floor.
"Okay, go back there, Vhenn, go with your father at home, take care of yourself! You, Vale, if you don't want me and Deyr, go with your Papa!" Lioren shouted, she just collapsed on the floor and started crying.
Lioren asked for new clothes and even though she was ashamed, she borrowed some money to have some money to get away from the place where her dark experience was.
When Lioren was able to change clothes, she said goodbye to her brother's friend. She didn't want to force her three children to come with her if they didn't want to.
"Mama," Lioren heard her child call her, she walked away when someone hugged her.
"Me, Deyr and Vale will come with you, sorry, Mama..." Vhenn said to her mother, Lioren didn't react and just cried.
"We love Papa even though we don't want to leave him, we don't want you to leave us, Ma I don't want to be like Papa even though we know it's possible for us to do so I want you to get well soon..." Vhenn said to his mother.
Lioren turned to her children who were behind her.
"Genetic..because Rhaen is their father, Lioren, it's possible for your children to become psychopaths, not just now but in the future." Lioren's brother's friend interrupted.
Without looking back, Lioren left with her three children, not knowing what would happen to them if they left their lives in the place where she experienced the dark fate at the hands of her husband.
Year 2023 (8 years after)
Eryl was in the vast land of their plantation when her son called her.
Her son Aeron called her, "Mama!"
Eryl turned and waved to her second son.
"What do you want?" Eryl jokingly told her son.
Eryl changed her identity when she and her three children arrived in Singapore.
She is Eryl Saeve also known Eryl, because her old friend who lived in Manila helped her family get there, changed her identity to a legit one before they joined her former friend who lives in Singapore.
She wanted to erase the dark events in her life from her identity. The PSA did not immediately approve her request because she was still married to her husband.
There was even a court hearing and Eryl had a lawyer who was an acquaintance of her friend. Until it was approved because it coincided with the legal separation of her husband and wife that even though Rhaen did not go to court thru online, he was able to talk to the judge.
Eryl and Rhaen are still married on paper, if they want to separate completely, they can get their marriage annulled. Eryl was also allowed to change her name and since then her life has changed for her and her children.
Her friend died of illness and gave her his plantation business in Singapore, while her friend's family abandoned her.
Even though she was rich, her husband and children still managed to leave her, even though her friend had bad manners, no one else could match her kindness to others, she helped others without any compensation.
Eryl grew the business that was previously only in America and Europe. Eryl even spread the plantation business in Singapore to well-known countries, including the Philippines.
"I'm graduating, Ma, brother said he can't go home, he has duty at the Changi General Hospital hospital." Aeron said to his mother in Singapore, where they have lived permanently since they fled the Philippines.
When they moved to Singapore, they already spoke many languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Malay, Tamil, Filipino, English, they were just familiar with other languages that they were used to using because they had more races compared to the foreign netizens living there.
When they are together, they use Filipino language so that they can still get used to speaking and writing.
"He hasn't told me yet, son, I'll find a way to free up my work schedule, you know Mama is busy, Rae also told me that she's graduating at the same time, did he tell you a month ago?" Eryl asked his son as he was riding his horse.
Eryl looked up at his son and ordered his to get off the horse first.
"Not yet, Ma, please don't let our graduations be the same day so that we can both attend important days for us." he said to his Mama.
When Eryl and her three children moved to Singapore, they had a hard time adjusting right away because the climate in Singapore is different from the Philippines. They were just used to it from the past year they had lived together as a family.