71 Father knows best

A healer was able to revive Lixiss from her coma after a week of treatment. She woke to find a mass of people in her bedroom, crowding around her in bed.

Confused on why they were here, Lixiss sat up feeling a slight heaviness to her body.

"Everyone leaves except for Lixiss, Kasra, and Lady Vanya." All the healers and servants cleared the room, closing the door behind themselves.

Inside Lord Tasar, sat in front of Lixiss' bed as her mother and Kasra were on the floor with their heads hang down. Lady Vanya was masking her cries into a handkerchief.

"Lixiss, you probably don't know what happens to you so allow me to tell you. You've been in a coma for a week."

Lixiss snapped her head towards Kasra direction looking for confirmation.

"Yes, young miss it's true. We couldn't wake you no matter what we did. Lord Tasar had to call for the healers."

For a week Kasra took the brunt of Lord Tasar's anger. Lady Vanya wouldn't say a word on young miss's drug use, and with Lixiss in a coma, everything was left to Kasra to explain.

Lord Tasar held up a blue sack in his hands before dropping it onto Lixiss' bed.

"Lixiss care to explain why this drug is in my Udava clan household and in your system?"

Lixiss never saw her father so compose, she could feel it was the calm before the storm came.

Holding her head to keep the headache she feels coming at bay, Lixiss thought to deny at first but a peek at Kasra's subtle shake of the head told her this wouldn't work.

"Father, I just tried it once..."

"Once?"

"Yes, I didn't think it would cause me to go into a coma."

Lord Tasar stared at his only daughter's face, even now she didn't look at him but at the sack on the bed. How could he miss the signs? Disappointed at himself and his daughter, Lord Tasar made a decision that was going to be painful.

"Fine, I'll trust you..." Lixiss breathed out a sigh of relief. "...but to be sure, stay under house arrest for the next month."

"Father...?"

"Lixiss you are my only daughter's, I have let you have your way on many things. Never questioning you but this past week I thought I would lose you. Since you told me with your own mouth that this was a one-time thing, then I won't question you anymore. All I ask is for you to go through a cleansing. We wouldn't want this drug to stay to your system, now will we?"

Voice unrelenting, face stern Lixiss knew her would lock her up by force if she refused.

"Only a month...?"

"Will see."

"Okay."

"You two may leave." Dismissing Kasra and Lady Vanya from the room first, Lord Tasar looked back at Lixiss.

"I hope this is the only thing you are hiding from me..." Standing up Lord Tasar picked up the sack from the bed, leaving the room and locking the door behind him.

Hearing the lock sounding at the door, Lixiss trip running out of bed to test the door nob.

"Father!...Father!...Fa..ther" Lixiss fell to her knees, tears coursed down her face.

In the living room, Lord Tasar gave his order the servant who will be watching over Lixiss for the next month.

Outside the residence Lady Vanya and Kasra stood waiting to watch at the front door, they could hear Lixiss' cries from all the way outside.

Lady Vanya closed her eyes, she knew of her daughter's drug use. She knew how, when and what drug it was. She was the only wife in the family who had a daughter, and in these harsh lands where sons are valued her daughter needed to be perfect so she hid everything from Tasar's eyes.

Everything was working out fine, why did she need to overdose? Lady Vanya felt so vexed by her useless daughter.

Lord Tasar opened the door, stopping in front of Kasra and Lady Vanya.

"Kasra, you will work in the tree farm, for the time being, you will not come back until I say so. Lady Vanya, you will be under house arrest."

"Tasar!... I had nothing to do with this-"

*Smack*

Before Vanya could finish her sentence Tasar smack her hard across the face. Stunning not only Lady Vanya but also everyone around them, they had never seen Lord Tasar raise a hand to any of his wives.

"You will do as I say, there is no room for refusal!"

Holding her red cheek Vanya nodded her head, taking one last look at the two women Tasar left in a huff.

Infuriated by the humiliation Tasar gave her, Vanya stared at Tasar's retreating back vowing to repay this debt.

Joanos was standing off to the side, hid in the shadows watching the whole scene take place.

"Lady Vanya, your punishment is not over yet. This is just the beginning..."