Lies

“You can’t keep us here forever Lineah,” Theron said a few minutes after we reached the peak of short -term happiness.

My eyebrow raised as I put my clothes on, “Who said I’ll keep you?”

“When I’m done with both of you. I’ll throw you out.”

“You’re a monster, Lineah,” he insisted.

“Your looking at your own reflection, Theron …” I paused, “At least I have a heart unlike you.”

“But you’re not listening to what it says.”

“Really?” My eyebrow raised, “How do you know what it says?”

Instead of answering me he just kept looking at me.

“See? Don’t speak about things you don’t even have a clue on. You don’t know what my heart says and you will never know, Theron.”

“I know you love me—”

“Mahal?!” I screamed.

“I know you do—”

“Oh please! Stop fucking romanticizing kidnapping!” I shouted.

“This is not love, Theron …” I paused, “This is fucking stockholm syndrome!”

“You abused me… You and Thander, you abused me!”

“You took me away from my family! I believe you are kind because you promised to help me find my real parents! I thought I was lucky because I had a good life in that mansion with you but no! You were deceived, abused and just used ako! Even if you reverse everything there is no love there Theron! Nothing! “

I can still remember the time when I underwent psychological therapy secretly. It’s just to get my mental state in order about that but even if it’s over and I have to undergo psychological therapy a few more times, the anger I feel towards Theron and Thander won’t go away.

“You can’t speak now? Why? Because I’m right, isn’t it? Your fucking romanticizing a criminal act!”

“Yes you might be right but I know deep down we connected … You have feelings ---” I cut him off.

“What I feel about you … This is not love and it will never be…” I said, tears started to pool in my eyes, “You are the reason why I don’t even know my mother because of you… Because of you.”

I sit on the side of the bed. I stared at him.

“I-if you hadn’t … If you hadn’t kidnapped me, I would have caught up with him …” I couldn’t stop myself. Little by little, hot tears rolled down my cheeks.

“He wouldn’t have died, I wouldn’t have lost my mother…” I said as I slammed my fists on his chest, “But he disappeared because of you! Because of your greed! Because of your wickedness!”

I let out a series of blows to his chest until I was exhausted and could barely beat the weakness.

“Nothing to think about but money, praise and yourself!” I said as my tears were about to disappear, “You don’t have a paw if someone loses and gets hurt because of you! You don’t have a paw …”

“You’re a monster …” I promised firmly while staring into his eyes.

“Because of you, I’m so lacking in humanity.” I groaned in its chest.

“I’m sorry …”

“I’m sorry Lineah. But I didn’t kill your mother. I didn’t know shes—”

“Will you ever shut up about that?”

“No, I maybe heartless but I’m not a murderer. Neither my brother.”

“Why do you trust the bornefeld fathers so much if you trust them? You don’t know everything about them.”

“Shut up!”

“Will you ever listen to me, Lineah? Just let me explain and I’ll fucking shut up.”

“Why would I? You killed his mother too. End of the story.”

“You’ve been fooled, Lineah. They brainwashed you.”

“Oh how did you know? Was that what you did to me before?”

“I’m sure you’re not going to believe whatever I say but please … Please listen to me.”

“Our parents, our childhood friends until they started a family … Tito Ephraim, my Dad and yours are like brothers.”

“What?” Is Theron cheating on me ?! Are our fathers friends?

I mean … Yes, Tito Ephraim and Dad are friends and his father and I are acquaintances but I never thought the three of them are actually close friends since childhood ..

Especially Tito Ephraim because he was very angry with Theron and Thander’s father.

“Ephraim was imprisoned for dealing illegal firearms back then. He used his company to hide his illegal doings.” Titus Ephraim imprisoned?

“What?”

“Please let me finish, Lineah.”

“He first asked my father for help …” he paused, “But Dad doesn’t want to be involved in his case. He says it’s his own mess and he needs to learn his lesson. Dad warned him but he didn’t listen. “

Where is this conversation going?

“My mom was pregnant at that time.”

“Why are you telling me this, Theron? What’s the point of this? Do you think your work will take me to your story?”

“Lineah I just want you to listen.”

“No. I’m not falling for this. I knew you would trick me and here it is!” I said and shook my head.

I strolled towards the door. I stopped turning the door knob as he spoke.

“I will sign the document if you let me finish.”

I sighed. How important is his work on that story? What would I do if his mother was pregnant then?

It was so bad for me!

While he loves Rievy very much like a daughter. If you think about it, it’s like he misses his daughter so he wants to like Rievy. But when it comes to me, I’m here.

“Lineah please …” he pleaded.

I closed my eyes tightly before looking back at him. “Fine, I’ll listen to your lies if this is the only way I can get our company back.”

“Go on,” I said as he didn’t speak.

“My mom was pregnant at that time.

I didn’t know that they had two brothers. If so, where is it? They are the only ones I see at events and even when I was in their mansion there was no one else like them in the mansion.

Not so in another country?

“We took him to Thander’s hospital, we were young then… That day was tickling my brain and I couldn’t get rid of it.”

“When our car got off the road it crashed. Everything happened fast but I can’t forget whose car crashed into us before.”

I didn’t know they were upset then. Probably because he didn’t tell the story because we were just making jokes back then.

But who can do that to them?

“Did you know who did it?”

“It’s your Dad’s car.”

“What ??” This lettuce man!

I knew it! He just intends to fool me again!

“Are you really good at making up stories?”

“Your Dad’s car has a unique plate number. I cannot be mistaken, that’s what I saw before I passed out because of the accident.”

“Why would my Dad do that? What is he doing to you?”

“My mom lost the baby … We lost our little sister,” he said bitterly.

My throat is dry.

“You have a sister?”

“She died… Because of your Dad.”

“What? No! That’s ridiculous! Dad won’t do that! He has no reason!”

“She died because of your Dad … That’s what we thought growing up. My mother is devastated she longed for our sister … But she cannot bear a child anymore because of the accident. We can’t stand seeing our mother like that, Thander and I made a promise to avenge the person who killed our unborn little sister … “

His eyes remained on me.

“His daughter is missing, that’s our chance to get revenge. I planned to hide you from your father and make him pay. I want him to be poor as a rat. I want him to feel left out and lonely without his daughter like what he did to our mother … To us. “

“That’s when we met you. Everything is smoothly going right on our plan but I got attracted to you … So as Thander … I know it’s wrong but we badly want revenge.”

“Your Dad promised to help him rebuild the company and he promised his daughter to marry Ephraim’s son. That’s our evidence.”

“But what you did is still wrong, Theron! Do you think your revenge will bring back your brother?”

“Did you even think that if your brother was in my situation how would he feel ?!”

“How … How could you do that to me …”

“I’m sorry Lineah …”

“You made my life a living hell because of a wrong accusation. What a great excuse to escape punishment.”

“If the sister buying woman lived, she would definitely embarrass you. You’re the reason I did this.”

“Your dad kill our—”

“Dad won’t do that—”

“You’re right. He can’t do such a thing. It’s too late to undo the wrong things we did. We already left you. After that we found out that it was Ephraim all along.”

“When he was out of jail, the first thing he did was sabotage our car ride home. He wants his revenge so he used your father’s car without him knowing.”

“He manipulated your Dad. He made all of you believe that he is a noble person but he’s not. He killed our little sister. Denard’s mother died because of his father. We didn’t kill anyone even your mom—”

“Shut up! I don’t believe you. It’s still not enough reason for you to keep me as a sex toy. You could have told me about my father but what did you do? Instead you locked me up in a mansion while having an identity crisis and took advantage of me! “

“I’m sorry, Lineah. I know what I did to you is unforgivable.”

“We did that because we hated your family. We thought he was the cause of the death of our only sister.”

“Sorry? I was depressed for years, Theron! And all you can say is sorry? This all happened because of your stupid analayzation of things that happened in the past!”

“I know it will take time for you to forgive me but I love---”

“Don’t you fucking say that word! I will never forgive you for what you did to me and to my mother. You are still the cause of all this!”

“I know it’s hard to believe Lineah. But I regret everything we did. If I had only known earlier it wouldn’t have happened ---”

“It already happened. You can’t change the past Theron. You can never go back!”

“I know I can’t change the past but let me make it for you for the rest of our lives … please believe me when I say I love you Lineah.”

“No … You’re crazy to think I’ll believe you.”

After the talk I left, I could not cope and we were finally drowsy. I was awakened by loud footsteps and shouts from outside.

“You’re really stupid! Aren’t you the one watching don ?!”

“I just got some water—”

“You deputy! This will make us smile!”

“What the hell is going on ?!” I said to the staff gathered in front of Theron’s room.

Their mouths are covered.