04 The Torment
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My whole body froze with a start.
It was Mrs. Kim’s voice. I couldn’t possibly mishear that…
I was shivering with fear…
She had come to get me!
I needed to leave right now!
“Beatrice Dunn?” One of the agents shot me a suspicious look.
“No! My name is NOT Beatrice Dunn… I’m Lola Fling… Beatrice is the one who tried to replace me… Sir, please get me out of here right now… I… hmm!” I tried to explain in a panic, but a hand suddenly clamped against my mouth, jerking me backward abruptly.
Mrs. Kim covered my mouth with one hand, stifling my panicked explanation. The other hand of hers, however, was secretly pinching the tender flesh on my side.
She used so much strength that the sheer pain brought me to tear up…
I tried to break off but she was too strong… I could only cast my pleading eyes toward the agents… hoping they could understand…
Yet they failed to realize that Mrs. Kim was secretly abusing me right under their noses. But I bet it was different for them to see when she still had a big fake smile plastered on her face.
“Beatrice, hon, what are you doing out of the dorm this late? Did you forget your pills tonight?” Mrs. Kim asked sweetly as she shot me a threatening eye when the agents didn’t notice.
“Her pills?” One of the agents asked curiously.
“Anxiety and clinical paranoid,” Mrs. Kim explained with an apologetic smile on her face as she turned to look at them, “The poor kid is going to be taken to the Eastern River Jail for a third trial tomorrow. The sentence won’t be too heavy because of her current mental state. But she’s still under grave pressure. Sometimes, she would even pretend to be someone else and try to make people believe her real identity was stolen. I guess twisting reality is just her way of coping with fear when facing upcoming punishment…”
Anger shot through my vein. I kicked and screamed but I couldn’t get away from her iron grip.
I couldn’t believe she just lied straight to the agents’ faces!
The agents exchanged a horrified look and then their eyes fell on the name tag on Mrs. Kim’s chest. It said her name and her position in the orphanage.
Dormitory Supervisor, Daisy Kim.
“She’s going under a trial? For what?” One of the agents asked nervously, his eyes filled with terror when they fell on my face.
My shoulders slumped in distress.
Of course they would choose to believe Mrs. Kim rather than me.
She was an adult and she was working here…
Why would anyone choose to trust a scrawny pale 18-year-old they just met a couple of minutes ago when the staff of this place spoke up?
“Murder,” Mrs. Kim said grimly. “The girl’s constantly lying and she can’t be trusted. I’m just hoping she didn’t manage to hurt you?”
“She didn’t, Ma’am,” one of the agents said with a tight voice.
They must be totally freaking out right now after realizing that they had almost let me approach them.
A deep desperation cut through my body as my last hope evaporated.
Tomorrow, I would be shipped to Eastern River Jail and Beatrice would replace me, becoming General and his fellow Alphas’ pampered lover.
Without me working my ass off, Jasper’s medical bills would be left unpaid… Once those meds and treatments were cut off, he wouldn’t be able to last for weeks…
I heard the guards of Eastern River Jail were known for their perverted ways of torturing the cellmates.
But their cruelty was nothing compared with what was waiting for me when these agents left. The real deal would only happen when Mrs. Kim dragged me back and threw me into that dark little basement of the building…
No! I couldn’t let these things happen!
An intense fear suddenly made me ten times braver…
I bit into the flesh of the palm against my mouth.
“Son of a…You little rat!!” Mrs. Kim gasped in pain, cursing sharply as she finally let go.
I fell on my knees as I desperately reached out a hand toward the shocked agents, crawling madly in their direction, “Sir! Sir! Please help me! She’s lying! She’s trying to kill me! I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE OR SHE WILL KILL ME!!! PLEASE!”
The agents only stumbled a couple of steps back.They didn’t even attempt to get near me.
My heart sank horribly as a cold realization dawned on me.
What I just did probably make me look even more like a murdering psychopath in their eyes…
They would never trust me.
Two other uniformed staff of the orphanage ran over. They pinned me against the ground and yanked my arms backward as they clicked a cold pair of cuffs around my wrists.
“Get this mad dog back to the building!” Mrs. Kim hissed under her breath as she cradled her bleeding hand, her eyes spitting fire.
All my struggles had been to no avail…
Maybe… this was finally the time to give up trying and accept my fate…
…
After dragging me to the punishment room, they fastened me onto a chair.
The coldness of the leather belts cut into my flesh. Horror made my mouth dry. My heart was jolting in my chest as if it was trying to escape from my mouth.
This electrical chair I was sitting on right now was designed to punish kids who “disobeyed”.
There were totally three buttons on the control. Each of them released power bigger than the other.
The power of the chair wouldn’t kill you. But it would make sure to pain you like hell.
I knew kids who had been dragged into this room before…
They couldn’t even walk out of here by themselves. And they would scream in nightmares for months after this…
One of them had even gone mad and attempted to commit suicide…
“Escaping your dorm late at night and disturbing everyone’s sweet dream was not a very wise move, girl,” Mrs. Kim said darkly.
Rage was the only thing burning in my blood.
“Why are you doing this to me?” I gritted my teeth, “Did Beatrice also pay you? Do you know she sold her ass for that money?”
Provoking her was not very wise either. But desperation had made me fearless.
Mrs. Kim chuckled as if she just heard the funniest joke, “I don’t give a f**k if she sold her ass or sucked someone’s c**k to pay me cash. That girl knows how to make things work for herself. And I completely respect that. As for you…”
She walked over, grabbing my chin so I was forced to look at her, “You’re such a sweet and innocent little dove, Lola. So young and so beautiful…”
She clicked her tongue and suddenly slapped me across my face.
The sharp impact made my head jerk to one side. My ear was buzzing when I heard Mrs. Kim’s spiteful voice, “And I f*****g hate girls like you! Do you really think you can have the whole world in your pocket just by waggling your tight little ass to some big men in charge? Do you really think being young and pretty is that powerful?”
And then, she whipped out a pocket knife and pressed it against my cheek, her voice dripping with venomous jealousy, “Every time when I saw that pretty little face of yours, I fantasized cutting it open, just like how I cut open that little w***e’s when she tried to seduce my husband…”
The coldness of the metal on my cheek brought me to freeze. My teeth clacked as I tried my best to not scream out loud…
“But, pitifully, we can’t do that yet. You still need to meet Mr. Dawson in his office tomorrow before they ship you to jail…” Ms. Kim grinned nastily as she took back the knife.
I let out a croaked whimper. Tears streamed down my face.
“Aww… Don’t you look even more delicious when you cry? I bet those r****t guards in jail will take fewer turns on you when they feel bad for you. So why don’t you save your tears for them?” She joked nastily.
“You’re disgusting…” I spat as my whole body was trembling with rage, “All of you… are disgusting!”
“Oh, really?” Ms. Kim bared her teeth as a big nasty smile cracked her face, “Again. A very stupid move, Lola.”
With that, she just pressed down the first button on the control.
A sharp snap sizzled through the lines taped to the back of my neck.
I’d never experienced pain so bitter that I almost blacked out in that moment.
It felt like thousands of knives were cutting my flesh into shreds.
Someone was screaming in the distance…
It took me a while to realize that the blood-curdling screech I heard was actually coming out of my own mouth.
I was torn and I was broken. I only wanted to escape from my own skin as the pain assaulted me again and again…
Mrs. Kim only laughed, a loud and shrilly laugh as if this was a standup gig for her…
I didn’t even remember what I was yelling at her. It might be a pleading or a curse…
I only remembered Mrs. Kim didn’t even stop for once before I passed out…
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