WILSON'S MANSON, COUPLES ROOM*

"Any progress?" he said grimly.

"Finding Richard is like looking for a needle in the haystack, it's not that easy but I'm surely working. There's a new update though" her manlike voice said.

"Yes?" Roonie replied, and that same moment, Pearl's eyes opened in bed.

She sat up, and immediately she saw him speaking on phone, she went still, covering herself.

Roonie almost scoffed as he watched her struggle with the duvet.

"Richard had a wife and daughter in Germany, but none of his family knew about it. The wife died in an accident but the daughter is nowhere to be found too. If she's alive, she should be in her early twenties by now" Natasha informed on phone.

"Cool" Roonie replied and hung up.

"Who were you talking to?" Pearl asked immediately, not moving from her position.

Roonie walked up to her, climbed the bed and pulled the duvet from her.

She tried to pull back, but he's stronger, and immediately he pulled it away, she couldn't hide the shade of red on her cheeks when he beheld her middle again.

"Don't hide it from me, it's mine now" he said, kissing her ear.

She melted into the bed, and he pulled her head to his chest, rubbing her ear slowly.

She calmed down, wrapping her arms on him as she listened to his steady heartbeat.

"Xhen is a Chinese name" she said.

"I had a Chinese mum...her name was Xusan" he replied, and she smiled, loving his warmness.

"Had?" She looked up inquisitively.

"She died after pushing me to life" he replied, and the sparks in her eyes died immediately.

"I... I'm sorry"

"Don't give me that shitty pity look" he replied seriously, and she returned her head to his chest.

"Is that why you don't get along with your father? He probably thinks you killed his wife. He must have loved her so much" she whispered.

"Not just that...I had a senior sis. She died in an accident when I was 5" he replied, and she raised her head again.

She'd had to hold back from saying sorry for the second time.

"I'd have loved to meet her" she said.

"No chance" he replied, and despite the darkness he tried to coat the words with, she couldn't help but notice sadism in his eyes.

"I grew up with uncle Edward and his wife Kara, and I stayed home for four years after the accident that took Silver away, I couldn't talk to anyone. I was alone, in my dark room" he said.

Pearl didn't blink as he talked.

It's like he's now opening all the chapters he has been refusing to open for her, and she wants to cry for him.

He lost his mother, sister, and his father blames him.

She could imagine his woes, and she slowly raised her hand to his face, stroking his jawline and soothing it with her small fingers.

His eyes softened as their eyes hooked.

"You have me...ok?" She said, and that manic smile appeared on his face again.

"You'll run away from me when the time comes, but no matter how mad you run... I'll chase" he said.

"There's no reason for me to run. You already told me all your secrets" she replied, shifting to his laps.. she straddled him.

The straight look is still on his face.

"Ok?" She muttered.

Her hand fell from his face to his shoulders when he pulled her in, smudging her breàsts before claiming her lips like the owner.

Pearl sighed into the intimacy, but her sigh turned to a gasp when he slipped his hand under her, inserting one finger into her heat.

"Fûck...Xhen!"

"Yes...fox" he replied, giving it to her slowly.

As his finger moved in and out of her, he couldn't help but feel her slipping away.

He could just feel it... Greatly.

But he has made up his mind, not even death can take her away.

He'd fight death to the hottest pit of hell.

This tiny girl right here, she's HIS.

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WILSON'S MANSION, COUPLES ROOM*

Mr. Wilson entered the bathroom for a shower one minute ago, and Tate is in bed, awaiting his arrival so they could go to bed together.

She has a photo book with her, and as she opened the pages, she smiles.

It contains childhood pictures of Pearl, right from when she was still in diapers, toothless and so cute.

Her smile widened at every page, but the smile disappeared when she opened the last page where a different picture is

It's a picture of Pearl too, but in the picture, her eyes are bulgy and almost falling from their swollen red sockets.

Her lips are swollen too and purple, then her face as a whole is a mess

Swollen as fûck cheeks with bruises and wounds everywhere. Even her chin is pounded.

It's the picture she snapped after the rape.

Richard didn't only rape her but gave her a heartless beating.

Tears fell from Tate's face to the picture, and she wasn't able to wipe it before her phone buzzed beside her.

It's a text from a new number, and it read...

• You'd probably be burnt to death if I tell our secret to the public. I don't care about your husband's daughter... I already fuçked her anyways. I only have business with you now, and you should buy my silence with two billions if you really wanna die with your dignity.

The phone fell from Tate to the ground, even the photo book.

She stood fast, her eyes wide as her arms went stiff at her sides.

"Richard" she muttered fearfully.

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