03 - Secret

After a few days in the ward, Iris finally got permission to leave the hospital. Before she can go on her own, Lucas and Leo stopped her. Leo who is already done with the formal thing with the hospital together with Lucas, waiting for Iris at her ward's door.

"Everything done?" Lucas asked with a smile at her but only got a nod from her. He nodded back before walking to her and grabbed her hand to walk out with him. His action makes Iris surprised for a bit and tried to let her hand go from him.

"To make sure that you don't go away from me and do something stupid again. From now, we are your guardian, so you will live with us" She frowned after hearing that. Why would he go to this extent for her? Does he want something from me just like those monsters?

"No, I can live on my own" Lucas sighed and shook his head. He looked at Leo who wear the same expression as him right now.

"Little girl, where do you want to live on your own? Under the bridge? Or do you want to continue what you want to do before?"

Iris looked down after hearing his question. That exact thought once appears in her mind before and when she heard him, she closed her mouth. After looking at her silence, Lucas sighed and patted her head. Iris looked up and saw the two gentlemen's smiling faces. Even though these two gentlemen are a stranger to her, she felt like they are the ones who can be called her family. She did feel a bit scared but at the same time, she feels safe, which she never felt before.

"Let's go" Iris slowly nodded and let her leg follow Lucas and Leo's steps going out of the hospital. She felt that there is nothing for her to lose anymore even though she maybe will end up miserable if she followed these strangers. However, she felt that will be the last thing that will happen to her. Little did she know, she is starting to know the three definitions that she never knows before.

In the car, Iris did not say anything and only looked outside with her empty eyes. Lucas looked at her while wondering what she is thinking right now. He remembered back what Leo find out after all of his thorough investigations which he does not want to know how he can have such a piece of detailed information about the Reynolds.

He never knows that the prestige Reynolds has a deep secret like this. The Reynolds secretly have slave trafficking activities under the big prestige hotel business. Iris's mother is one of the victims and because of her beauty, Chester Reynolds, the father, took her as his mistress. However, she never felt loved by him but continued being a sex slave of that monster. After she died after 3 years of giving birth to Iris, the misery continues on Iris.

At first, she was forced to be a maid as soon as she is 4 years old. Not only that, but she also is a victim of paedophile monsters around her, including her dad and step-siblings. As a kid, not knowing anything, thinking that all of it is a normal thing, let it all happen to her. When she at 12, she started to rebel, maybe knowing that everything that happened to her is not normal and that pushed all of the misery buttons in her life. Due to her excessive beauty, she attracted more than those monsters, the devil that has a human mask. She started to be forced to be like her mother. A slave, specifically to ease the disgusting lustful desire of those devils.

After hearing all of that, there is no reason for Lucas not to get mad at them. All of that happened to her from her childhood until now, there is no reason for her not to even think to end her misery. Lucas also knows now why he saw her flinched and sweats when she is asleep. He fully understands that, but that also makes him more responsible to make her feel the happiness and love that she should receive.

Then, his eyes go back to look at the little girl beside him. The age difference of 6 years makes him feel like he is a big brother to this little girl but at the same time, he feels something different that he can't explain. He then saw the flinched sleepy little girl beside her and have the urge to hug her to ease her worries. However, he ended up with a little pat on her head, trying to soothe her.

"Please only have sweet dreams after this."

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