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The whole house fell silent at the sound of his voice, including Steve and his men.

Selena stepped on a body as she made her way silently down the stairs to avoid being heard. No one had seen her slip out of the bathroom before Vance came, so she was okay.

Being very familiar with the house since it was once her house, she took the backdoor of the house and left into the silence of the night.

The cold against her skin was freezing her, but she managed to make her way. She wasn't running away, she just wanted another strategy to get back at Vance, which would be to link up with his enemies.

She went to where the adversaries parked their car and noticed someone was still inside.

Alex??" She muttered, recognizing the face and hiding behind the car to avoid being seen from Vance's bedroom and from Alex.

What is he doing here??" She muttered at the back of the car.

Alex was their security man at the time, her parents were still alive, and they were friends at that time because he would always take her see her friends even if her mom refused.

With the look on his face and the car he was in, she was sure that he was Vance's adversary.

Why won't he? The bastard took everything from us. I am sure we are both fighting for the same reason." She thought and started walking to the side of the car where he was.

Alex" she whispered as she got closer and to her surprise he alighted the car and pointed a gun at her forehead.

Look who's here." He said mockingly. " It's Lucifer's bride which makes you a lucifress."

Alex, it's me, Liliana." She said.

Alex scanned her for a second, the voice was familiar, but it wasn't matching the face or the body.

How dare you??" He blurted angrily, using the gun to pin her to the car.

I know I don't look like me, but that's because I had surgery. Remember Pa and Ma, Vance killed them. I saw him that night with Steve." She said, holding back her threatening tears.

Alex scanned her again, she looked nothing like the was she was but her voice was the exact same way.

Alex in the wonderland." She said, and Alex became certain that she was Liliana because only her called him that if she wanted to piss him off.

He pulled her in for a hug that didn't last for long because she whispered that she was in pain, and they had a lot to do.

I am sorry, I got carried away, I thought you were dead, so seeing you now just makes me extremely happy." He said, smiling.

We need to get out of here." He said, opening the door of the back seat for her and she went inside.

The drive was silent as they both seemed to be drowned in their memories.

Tell me everything that has happened to you since all this while." He said, breaking the ice.

Their eyes met through the rearview mirror, and he saw her wipe the tears that had already filled her eyes.

It's okay, you are with me now, I will protect you." He said, pulling the car to a stop at the front of a mall.

When they died," Selena started. " I was watching, he used the knife we used in cutting his birthday cake days before, in killing them." She paused as the tears welled up again. The memory and pain she had struggled to minimize its effect, crashing back on her.

Alex wanted to alight from the car to console her, but she refused by holding him back and muffling that she was okay.

When he looked at me that night, I can swear that I had never seen that look before. He walked up to me with the blood still dripping from the knife and I thought I was going to end me like them, but instead I fell asleep. I think he drugged me.

I woke in the arms of a man I have never seen in my entire life. His smile was just like Dad's, which assured me that everything was fine. I looked at Vance, who was opposite us, and he walked close to me, before whispering. " Don't ever answer Berlusconi in your life." He had told me hardly that day." Tears welled up in her eyes again, and she wiped them off instantly.

My heart was beating as the man took me away. I didn't know how it all happened, but I found myself in a plane and then at his house.

They were all nice to me till his oldest son started seeing me as a doll. He could play with anyhow.

He started playing with my body, anyhow taking me by surprises and one day I was fed up and raised my voice at him. It was brutal that day." Selena said, shaking her head as the images flooded her head.

He slapped me on the cheek and tried overpowering me to use me in satisfying his sexual desires, but I refused and freed myself by pouring him the hot oil in the pan for frying eggs."

Alex turned back at her to see her reaction to what she did, but he was disappointed since her head was facing downwards.

So what happened after?" He said, so he and she paused.

I ran. As fast as my legs could carry me, tears poured down my eyes. His screams till follow me up till now, the faces of how disappointed they would be at me despite how they made me feel at home, flooding my mind every second."

Do you regret it?" Alex asked, wanting to know if it was just a mistake, or if she still stood on her decision. At least he was to know that type of person she had turned up to after all these years.

No, I don't. He deserves it but what I feel guilty is because his family didn't." She said, meeting his eyes.

But everything changed when I ran into The Rodriguez.