Misfortune dogged her.
Lita hugged herself tightly with her arms to reduce the coolness and hunger. She walked aimlessly on the street under the sky in which a storm was brewing, without noticing that two little gangsters with ostentatious hairstyles were following behind her.
"Beauty, being alone? Go home with me to have fun." The purple-haired guy stepped forward and patted Lita's on the shoulder. His words were very frivolous and obscene.
Lita was shocked. She collected herself and put away her sorrow for a while. "What do you want? Stay away from me," she snapped.
A black Ferrari pulled over on the way behind the shrubbery. Alex watched the scene with amusement. He wanted to know what this stupid woman would do when she ran out in the middle of the night recklessly and got herself into this kind of situation.
Lita didn't dare to linger and talk with the gangster, so she took to her heels and ran towards the asphalt road lighted by the passing vehicles.
But she didn't expect another gangster popped up in front of her and blocked her way. "Where are you running to? You have to make the two of us satisfied before you can leave! Come on, girl, we will pay you."
"Scumbag!" Lita yelled, and then she shouted at the top of her lungs, "Help! Somebody help!"
The two gangsters didn't expect that Lita, who looked delicate and fragile, had such a high voice. She was shouting with all her strength and it looked like she was going to wake up the whole block. This made them panic. One of them instinctively pulled out a knife from his pocket and waved it in front of her face. "Bitch, shut up or I'll cut your throat open!"
Lita panicked when she saw the man taking out the knife. How could she not to be afraid? She shuddered and forced herself to calm down. The man took the opportunity when she hesitated and pounced on her...
But someone was faster than him. A strong figure, jumped out of nowhere, rushed to the two gangsters. As expected, the murderer with the knife gave a hard right hook. The purple-haired murderer immediately fell down with Alex's right hook.
When Lita saw clearly that the 'kind person' who helped her was Alex, she became depressed. Alex seemed in her eyes even more disgusting and hateful than the two gangsters.
Lita took the opportunity to take off one of her heels and hit the gangster who wanted to hug her. The pointy heel of her shoe hit hard on the gangster's head, and he instinctively loosened his hand.
Without taking one more glance at Alex, Lita put on her shoes and rushed to the asphalt road in a hurry. She stopped a taxi and left the scene hurriedly.
Did the man pass by accidentally or did he chase after her deliberately to witness her in such situation? Anyway, the man couldn't be out of good intention in doing this.
The black Ferrari followed behind the taxi. Only after seeing Lita arrive safely at the house of Bishop family, did Alex turned around the car and sped away. He recalled the scene the woman took off her shoe and hit the gangster and had to admit that she was awesome.
On his way back home, an inexplicable feeling flashed across Alex's heart. He felt as if something was lost. He couldn't explain what kind of sentiment it was.
At the Bishop house.
Jack just came back from a business trip. Maria was questioning him why he arrived home two hours later than the time expected. What did he do in the past two hours? Maria had checked and confirmed that the flight tonight didn't arrive late.
"Uncle, Auntie. I'm back," Lita's voice was hoarse.
"Lita? What happened to you? Why are you crying?" Jack quit explaining to his wife and asked Lita.
"I'm fine. I miss home, so I came back. Uncle, Auntie, I'm going upstairs to get rest. Good night."
Lita didn't tell them what happened to her at Selmy family, because her uncle Jack and her aunt Maria weren't the persons she could pour out her trouble to. If they could listen to her, Lita wouldn't have been forced to marry into Selmy family.
Could his uncle's house be regarded as her own home? The concept of home seemed to be obscure in her mind.
"What's wrong with Lita?" John asked with concern. After all, Lita was his biological sister's daughter, his niece.
"Maybe she's still thinking about the little gift from Selmy family." Maria didn't welcome Lita's coming home this time.
"I think she probably couldn't stand Ethan's torture, so she fled back." Chloe, who was doing her school work, said in a gloomy tone.
Hearing his youngest daughter's comment, Jack was stunned. He thought, 'Could Ethan's human nature be distorted too after he was disfigured?'
"Well, no matter what happened, whenever Lita wants to come back, we have to welcome her. No one is allowed to throw a face at her! Do you all hear me? Especially you, Maria!" Jack said solemnly.
Maria took a cold glance at upstairs and said nothing.
Inside the attic on the third floor, Lita locked herself in the room and burst into tears.
Lita had no choice but to marry Ethan, who was disfigured and disabled. She thought that as long as she did her best to take good care of him, she would fulfill her duty as a wife.
But she really didn't expect that Alex would humiliate her again and again. This time, he went too far and put his fingers into the place where women couldn't mention to others. As she was thinking, she kept her legs close tightly. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something wrong with her private part.
She rushed into the bathroom and washed herself thoroughly three times.
But she seemed to smell a scent of fresh mint which belonged to that man and she couldn't get rid of it no matter how she washed herself, as if it had become part of her.
Jack knocked on the door and came in with her favorite paste cake and aloe yogurt.
"Lita, you haven't had dinner yet, have you?" Jack asked lovingly, "I was so stupid. When I heated the cake, I almost put the yogurt into the microwave oven too."
"Uncle..." Lita sobbed and threw herself into Jack's arms. Lita did not know whether her parents were dead or they just disappeared. In the past 22 years, her Uncle Jack was her only relative.
"I'm sorry. I sacrificed you for the trouble I got into." Jack patted Lita's back, feeling guilty and remorseful.
"Ethan... He scared you, didn't he? Did he bully you?" John asked softly.
Lita shook her head. "No. Ethan is okay to me."
Seeing that Lita didn't want to say anything more, Jack didn't ask further. "Lita, just stay in this house with ease. This is also your home. Whenever you feel not happy there, just come back. You can stay as long as you want."
At the Selmy house.
Ethan didn't know that Lita was driven away by Alex until the next afternoon.
"Alex! You've gone too far! Go and bring Lita back! If you can't persuade her to come back, you don't have to come back either!"
Ethan was really angry. Lita had just been here for four days, but he had a very good impression of her. She was beautiful, strong, and clever. She was a rare good girl. Only when he gave Alex to such a good girl could he leave this world with ease of mind.
"Ethan, calm down. She wanted to leave herself. Perhaps she feels very sad to marry me. Why do we have to force her to come back? She will only be more miserable if we do!" Alex said coldly.