4 Chapter 4. Suffering and determination. WARNING: MENTIONS OF ABUSE. IF UNCOMFORTABLE SKIP TO THE DASHED AND CONTINUE READING. (1/2)
”Who do you think you are?! You're just a burden to us!!!” A middle aged man, with dark hair, face covered with wrinkles, clearly showing his aging, thundered.
Suddenly, Roselia was kicked on her side. ”You little lass, why don't you just give it to us?” a petite, who a lot stronger than what she seemed, screamed right into her ears while gripping Rose's black locks tightly.
Roselia cried painfully. Not from the hitting but from the rage that was building up inside her. Somehow she managed to get a pan from her left side and realized she was in the kitchen and was about to give a damn hard blow onto the woman....
Roselia jolted awake. ”Was it a dream?” She thought while wiping her cold sweat that ran down her forehead onto her cheek. She lazily fell back and closed her eyes. She thought onto her situation and the dream. Oh, how she wished she would do whatever she was about to do in that dream.
Roselia wasn't an idiot. She clearly knew, now that the cops were involved, then her supposed to be parents will be here anytime. And when they knew that she ran away taking away what she was supposed to give to them, the scene absolutely won't be pretty. She sighed, clearly annoyed.
”Stupid vampires. Why the hell did they have to chase me? Everything was well. I was safely going to Academy of my dreams. Everything was going according to the plan. Those scumbag parents of mine would never let me go to study in the academy. It was a perfect plan of runaway. And now I've to go to that hell hole, everyone calls my home.” Roselia continued to curse her life, fate and luck. But, she couldn't even curse in peace, as the massive obstacles of her life, entered through the threshold of the room.
She groaned internally but, kept a straight face towards them. The two people, who entered just stared at her with the same expression as Roselia on their faces. Anger but, it can be categorized into rage. The intense staring contest was broken by officer Wang, who entered after the old couple.
”Miss Manhattan, your family is here to take you.” She scoffed a bit, unnoticeably of course.
”Family? You should spend a day with me to know about my family.” she thought internally. All the while, the couple just glared at her with rage burning eyes. She wanted to just disappear or just walk out from here right now. But, there was no chance. This officer would rather give her a death sentence than sending her with them. Yeah, hell would be much better than what she faces there.
”Mr. Manhattan, she is fine. The doctors declared she can go home, but you have to keep her away from any kind of violence. We are very sorry that your daughter had to face such a thing and suffer from it.” Wang said with a lot of concern laced in his voice.
The man, Robert Manhattan, Roselia's adoptive father, gave the officer a sweet but, weak smile. ”Nobody knows what can happen. I'm thankful that she's alive.” Saying this, he turned towards Roselia and gave a smile.
Roselia immediately grimaced. His mouth and smile can be deceiving but, the gaze in his eyes clearly told what his true intentions are. He certainly was happy seeing her alive, if not, they will probably be begging on road side. He was such a great actor. ”Maybe, I picked up their acting at some point.” she thought when, she remembered what she did a while ago.
Wang immediately smiled brightly. ”Yeah. But, I've have to tell you. We would need her assistance when we solve the case. Hope you will be cooperating with that in future.” He continued.
This time the woman, Claire Manhattan, spoke up. ”Its fine. She would definitely help you with this.” Roselia was surprised when the woman's voice cracked a bit saying that. Exactly, how much perfectly can they act? She internally thought.