CHAPTER 1

MARTHA:

The rain started falling heavily as I finished my shift as a waitress at Silver's Restaurant, a magnificent high-end restaurant in Sun City.

I grabbed my black handbag, rushed out of the restaurant premises, and went to the roadside to flag down a taxi.

It was 7 p.m. on Friday evening, so I climbed into the rear seat, gave the taxi driver my father's home address, and he drove off.

Upon arriving home, I settled my fare, climbed out of the taxi, and rushed through the huge black gate of my father's enormous white mansion, as the security guard was absent.

When I reached the front door, I pressed the doorbell, and my stepmother, Sandra Roger, pulled it open.

Sandra wore a light blue nightdress and black slippers, and she frowned upon seeing me return home.

Thunder struck as soon as I entered the living room and shut the door behind me. The heavy rainfall had drenched my body.

The clock showed 8 p.m., and I greeted Sandra. "Good evening, Mom."

"Martha, why are you home so late?" Sandra asked, glaring at me.

Looking at her frowning face, I asked, "What sort of question is that? This is my father's house, and I can return home whenever I like."

"Oh, sure," Sandra replied with a smirk and moved back to sit on the black couch. I knew that she disliked me and had only pretended to love my father when she married him.

After she married him, she treated me poorly until he died two years ago.

I had to live with Sandra because my father's will stated that he had given the whole house to me, while Sandra and her daughter, Elena, stole the company.

Ignoring my stepmother, I quickly rushed upstairs to my room to change out of my wet blue dress. But as I neared the door, the intense groaning and moaning froze me in place.

"Ah, Mark! Fuck!" I heard Elena's voice as she cried while the man rode her to ecstasy.

My fist clenched at how Elena was moaning like a lunatic. Couldn't she take her boyfriend to a hotel?

Why bring him here to our father's house? Couldn't she have a little respect for our late father?

I wanted to ignore Elena, as I was four years older than her.

I was 24 years old, and she was 20.

However, I heard Elena cry out again, "Fuck me, Mark!"

I froze.

Who was Mark?

Was he my fiancé, Mark Elliott?

I wanted to ignore them, thinking there were many men named Mark, so there was no fucking way that Mark Elliott would be the man with my shameless sister. But I heard Elena's comment.

"Mark, do you enjoy having sex with Martha like me?"

"Fuck it, Elena. Martha has a dry pussy, and I don't enjoy anything. She's too skinny and lacks the plump boobs and soft ass you have."

"What?" My fist clenched as I spun around to face Elena's bedroom door, and I heard her speak again.

"Aww... I'm glad that I'm different. How about your engagement to Martha? Aren't you going to call it off? You cannot marry her over me," Elena purred as Mark drove into her.

The sound of his moans echoed in the corridor as their bodies moved against each other.

"Don't worry. I'm only getting married to Martha to take over your father's company. Don't forget that your mother stated that your father left everything in Martha's name, if not for the fact that she deceived Martha into thinking your father left only the house for her."

"What?" I gasped, blood draining from my face as I heard their discussion.

I wasn't able to pull the door open and confront them.

Elena's door was slightly open, and I spun around to leave the house, only to see my stepmother standing in the corridor with a large pestle in her hands.

"Martha, your time is up, and you cannot take everything away from my daughter and me!" Sandra raised the pestle to smash it against me, but I dodged her attack and pushed her to the ground.

"Ahh!" Sandra gasped as she landed on her butt.

After hearing that Sandra had changed my father's will to suit her preference, I jumped on her and smacked her face multiple times.

"Martha, how dare you?" Sandra shrieked, and Elena's bedroom door flung open.

Elena and Mark shamelessly darted out of her room naked and looked stunned to see Sandra on the ground after I had smacked her ten times for changing my father's will.

Who knew if Sandra had a hand in my father's mysterious death two years ago?

"Martha, how dare you lay your filthy hands on my mother?" Elena growled at me, but I glared at her in disgust.

"You shameless slut! You're riding my fiancé, and you think you'll be better than me or get my inheritance? Only in your dreams."

I spun around and left the house, knowing that I couldn't stay there with them.

Before I left the corridor, Mark called out to me.

"Martha, you cannot leave this city. Know that our marriage has already been scheduled, and whether you like it or not, you must marry me!"

"Only in your dreams. I will never marry an asshole and cheap dog like you!" I cursed at Mark before leaving the corridor.

Tears flooded down my cheeks as I made my way outside the duplex my father owned. The house used to be peaceful until my dad got married to that evil woman.

Clenching my fist, I hurried out of the house, leaving everything behind. I would be back for them, so I made my way to the road to get a cab.

The rain poured down heavily on me as I found a taxi.

"To Dennis Hotel," I said, as it was getting late. I had nowhere to go. My relatives had lost interest in me after my mother's death.

They blamed me for her death, as they preferred that I should have died in her place instead of her having me as her baby. She died during childbirth.

Wiping the tears from my cheeks, I looked out of the window.

The money I had could barely sustain me.

When the taxi arrived at the hotel, I got out, paid the taxi driver, and made my way into the hotel.

Dennis Hotel was a popular brothel in town, and I wanted to spend the night there to cheat on Mark and forget those mean words he had made about me.

When I entered the hotel lobby, the two receptionists peered at me and frowned.

"Hey, miss. What are you doing here all soaked up?" One asked, and I drew a deep breath.

"I want a night with any available man. How much will I be paid?"

"Haha!" The two receptionists laughed at my broken state.

"You're too skinny to attract any clients. So go out and look for another hotel or brothel to satisfy your fantasy," they dismissed me, but I was clearly determined to show them that I wasn't one to give up easily.

If I didn't get the money to get my stepmother arrested, then I would be the one at a loss.

"I'm serious, and I'm not leaving this brothel. Please." I stripped off my wet blue dress, which I had worn to work that morning.

"Hey! What are you doing?" the receptionist growled at me as she walked out from behind her desk.

"Let her go!"

A deep voice startled me, and I turned to see who it was.

A group of five men dressed in black walked into the hotel lobby. The one who spoke had golden-coloured eyes that sent chills down my spine.

I hadn't seen any human with such an eye colour before.

"Welcome, sir. We are just trying to make our hotel a conducive environment. What do you want?" the female receptionist in a white top and black skirt, who had wanted to chase me out, asked the formidable man who walked in to meet us.