Chapter 2

After two days

Amelia put her ear to the muddy ground and tried to hear footsteps. She was hungry. For some reason the guards have stopped giving her food, let alone visiting the cell.

She didn’t know how long it had been. When she didn’t hear any sound she sat down and took a long breath just then she heard footsteps. She clenched her fists in fear.

Soon, a few guards entered and for the first time in years, the dark room lit up. Amelia immediately closed her eyes.

"Your time is over. Come out" A guard spoke up and Amelia immediately opened her eyes. She was too shocked to move.

A female guard unlocked the cell and took off the chain from her hands and legs. "Stand up, now you murderer. I can't just digest the fact that the government is letting this murderer go when she killed innocent people. Really, money can talk and work" The female guard spoke up in a furious tone.

Amelia immediately tried to stand up because she was afraid that if she did not obey their orders immediately, they would refuse to release her, but when she tried to stand up, her weak body shook and she fell down. Her legs were shaking.

Instead of helping her, the female guard became very angry and started dragging her out of the prison by the hand. They dragged her like a wild animal.

From getting out of this hell she felt like it was a dream. She thought this dream would end soon until the heavy iron door slammed hard behind her. It made her realize it was really happening. She is finally getting out of this living hell.

When she finally came into the sunlight, she looked at her body and was horrified.

Her entire body was covered in marks of torture. Her skin was wrinkled, as if it had shriveled with age.

Her dress was torn as she was still wearing the same dress she had worn when she arrived here. It had fitted her body then, but now it hung around her because she was nothing but skin on her bones. Tears welled up in Amelia's eyes as she saw her miserable condition.

The guards dragged her like a lifeless doll.

They pushed her out of the gate slammed hard again making her flinch.

"How long do you want me to wait in front of the jail? Do you want people to think of me as a criminal?"

Just then, a voice full of arrogance came from the front.

When Amelia looked ahead, she saw Jennifer her step-sister leaning in front of the car. Hearing Jennifer's words, she kept a poker face and then slowly started moving towards the car.

Without answering Jennifer's words, as she reached for the car door to get into the car, Jennifer pushed her away from behind.

Amelia's weak body could not handle the impact and fell on the road. Jennifer then covered her nose in disgust and shouted, "How dare you touch my car with these dirty hands? Do you think I will take you home in my car? I can't take a sewer worm anywhere in my car, I can't ruin my car"

Jennifer took out a tissue from her bag and started wiping her hands and said in an angry voice, "Did you not see your condition. You are walking around with thousands of bacteria on your body. I am now afraid that I will get hurt if I touch you."

Amelia didn't react to Jennifer's words because this insult was nothing compared to the things she had been through in the past years.

Jennifer took out some money from her bag and threw it at her and said, "Rent a cab and go home. But I am afraid, that any cab driver would take you in his car. No one would take a pig living in the sewer and ruin his car." Saying this, Jennifer got into the car and drove away.

Amelia looked at the money lying on the ground and then picked it up.

Even after standing on the side of the road for half an hour, she couldn't find a taxi. It wasn't that there weren't any taxis on that road.

But no taxi wanted to take her, seeing her horrible condition. Amelia smiled sadly at her fate and then slowly walked towards the house.

Her feet turned red from walking barefoot on the hot road. With great difficulty, she reached the house after about two hours. When she reached the house, she saw Jennifer's car parked outside the house. Jennifer opened the car window and smiled sharply at Amelia.

Then she drove inside. Amelia understood that she was waiting here for her.

Amelia thought that the security guard might not let her in after seeing her, but surprisingly, the security guard opened the door as soon as he saw her, but there was clear annoyance and hatred floating on his face.

When she entered the living room, she saw that everyone was sitting in the living room. Seeing her, her Dad took out a handkerchief from his pocket, held his nose, and said, "You smell like rotten meat. I invited some important guests tonight over dinner. So, make sure you stay in your room. I don’t want them to see you"

Amelia was deeply hurt by her Dad's words. Didn’t he feel sorry for his daughter? Didn’t he feel regret that he failed to keep his word?

Saying this, her Dad left from there. Her stepmother then approached her with sharp sarcasm and uttered, "I hope you now understand your place in your dad's life. So from now on, don't try to get anything beyond your worth "

Amelia stood with her head bowed in humiliation and pain. Tears were silently flowing down her cheeks. The pain accumulated in her chest was rising from the lump.

From behind, the oldest maid said in an emotionless voice, "Go to the room and freshen up, or you will be late." At the maid's words, Amelia turned her head and looked at her.

This maid used to treat her like a princess, but after her mother's death, the maid changed. Of course, there was a good reason behind this, the maid was the closest person to her mother. After her mother's death, her stepmother destroyed all the memories of her mother and tortured the maid a lot because of her closeness to her mother.

While enduring the torture, she became helpless and pushed Amelia away from herself, but she never treated her badly like the rest.

Amelia, after hearing her emotionless tone, asked with a sad smile, "Aren't you going to ask me how I am?"

Hearing her question, the old maid clenched her fists and looked down.

Amelia kept her suppressed pain in her chest, looked at the servant, smiled softly, saying, "Don't worry, I don't blame you for my situation." Saying this, she started walking towards her room.

When she entered her room, she was shocked because the condition of her room was no better than a destroyed house. Someone had torn everything to pieces and scattered it on the floor. There was not a single book on her favorite bookshelf, all the books were lying on the floor in a torn condition.

Amelia could tell that this was Jennifer's work. She must have entered her room and destroyed everything to control her anger.

Amelia felt pain looking at the torn books because these books were her mother's favorite books that she had kept with great care. She picked up the torn books one by one and placed them on the shelf, then she entered the washroom.

When she took off her clothes and stood in front of the mirror, she silently let the tears flow from her eyes again. There was no place where there were no marks of abuse.

Amelia sat down against the wall and burst into tears. The servant had just entered the room to clean her room when he heard her crying from the washroom.

Hearing her heart-rending cries, the servant started to shed tears. She quickly wiped away her tears and started cleaning the room, before Amelia came out of the washroom.

She cleaned the room and left quickly.