Chapter 209 - A Painful Memory

Harry takes off his clothes and uses the shower area to wash up. After bathing, he handed a bathrobe to Lisa at the bathtub area, and he is also wearing the same outfit.

"Wear this first. I'll call my assistant to get us new clothes." He said, and after Lisa took the bathrobe from him, Harry walks out of the bathroom.

Lisa feels so awkward right now. Their movement and conversation stiff like they were strangers. How she missed her old days with him. Somehow, there's a big regret in her heart for hastily make a decision that night.

When she walked out of the bathroom, she saw Harry sat on the single chair while looking the outside of the window. It still raining outside and the wheater seems gloomy too.

Lisa takes her courage to sit at the opposite of him. "Harry…"

He didn't look at her but reply to her with simple hmm.

"Can I confess something to you?" She clenches her fist tightly. Afraid of what he'll say after this.

Harry exhales deeply and nods his head. "Sure. I'll listen." He straightens his sits posture and looks at her calmly.

"I.."

Knock knock!

Both of them frowned, looking at each other. "Did you order something?" Lisa asked, and Harry shakes his head.

"No. Did you?" Lisa also shakes his head.

Harry stood up, and Lisa tugs his bathrobe from behind and hides behind his back. They both cautiously walk to the door, and when Harry looks at the peephole, he sighs and opens the door.

Thud!

Brian punches his face fiercely. "How dare you!" Harry was not ready when he got the punch and fall on the floor before Brian grab his robe and punch him in the face again.

A few of his bodyguards also rush in inside the hotel room, holding him like he was a punching bag for Brian.

"Brian!! Stop it!! What are you doing?" Lisa screams when she saw how he treat Harry. He was still injured and now..being punched and kicked like this. Her tears stream down her cheeks while pulling Brian's arm.

"What am I doing?! Lisa, I was the one who should ask you, what are you doing with him with only wearing this??" He glared at her, and Lisa immediately tied up her bathrobe tightly.

Hearing those accusations, Harry laughed. "You're insecure… just because she wears that, you thought.."

Bam!

Brian punches him again on his stomach, and he spurts blood from his mouth.

"Enough!! Brian, you'll kill him!" She went to stop him by standing in front of Harry.

Brian turns angrier. He pulls her hands to the side and instructs his bodyguard. "Beat him, but don't kill him."

Lisa gasps loudly and tries to yank her arm from Brian's grasps. "It's not his fault, Brian..listen to me..its just a misunderstanding!"

Scoffed, he said. "Misunderstanding? You were wearing this, misunderstanding?? In the middle of the night with other men, misunderstanding?? You had no thread on your body at all, still misunderstanding?? You think I'm so easy? You want to cheat on me? Dream on. I've told you, you're mine, and no one can have you unless me!"

He pushed her to another room on the same floor. Lisa was shocked when Brian shove her to the floor. Never in her life to see Brian this mad.

"Brian, you told me..you would never hurt me." Lisa was trembling a bit while trying to standing up.

"Yes, I know. I'm trying very hard not to hurt you, you know that? But what did you do to me? You drive me crazy, Lisa.." He yanks her arm and shoves her to the bed.

Roughly he pulls her bathrobe sash and unclasped his belt. Lisa's tears didn't stop as her body ached and pain for each of his force movements. For the first time in her life, she felt so helpless.

Her scream didn't go through by anyone, and no one care. The only person who would run to save her already been beaten up to the pulp right now. And she was left alone after he's done torturing her.

It's already dawn, and her body was full with a red mark, either it was from the bite, hickey, or slaps. She doesn't care at all. She grits her teeth as her tears fall again.

…

The next day, she moving out to Seattle and stay at a temporary penthouse until the mansion was fully built. Her work has been classified, and she can have her research facility in the new estate as Brian requests it from the management.

He is confining her from meeting Harry again. That is when Lisa decides to upgrade Akiera to the Kiera version. She improves it for her to check on Harry's condition. Protect him from getting attack by Brian again. Fortunately, he was okay.

The 'Hawkeye' project is on its schedule to begin. Thus Brian was a bit busy to select a new business partner and collaboration from a few giant companies to invest in it.

A month pass by, and when she noticed she was late on her period, she starts feeling anxious. Her trauma was still in her mind even though Brian keeps saying his sorry for the thousandth times. She can't forget that night. It was such a painful memory of her.

It was like she was raped but raped by her husband. Since Brian didn't care about the mansion's design and entirely give her authority to it, Lisa secretly makes her own bunker and places Keira's brain inside it. It looks like her lab, but she had her private place where she can escape from him and have a little eye for Harry's condition from time to time.

She makes a device that can transfer memory to a small rod device and send it to Harry secretly. She will record half of her memories into the device and convey her feeling through it. So that one day...Harry will know the truth. The things that she wasn't able to say it to him that night.

In the next week, she heard about Brian's fiancee, who she doesn't even know that she exists at all. She was super shocked by this news. Again, she was lied to by him. Her trust in him suddenly decreases bit by bit.

The cruelest thing she felt is, a day before the news about Brian's fiance goes viral, he announces their marriage to the public without even telling her at all! It feels like she was a homewrecker while she doesn't even know about this girl at all.

She took an Uber to go to Chicago because his fiance was lock up there. Luckily Brian was quite busy that week and didn't notice that Lisa fled to Chicago.

…

Chicago.

The moment she saw a girl in an orange blouse, she felt sorry for her. She had a beautiful face and figure, perfect for an aristocrat girl's identity.

"You're Caitlin?" Lisa started.

Caitlin snickered at her. "And you're Ben's wife, right?"

Lisa slightly nod. Not the slightest bit happy with how she was addressing her. "What are you doing here? To mocking me? To show off your ring on your ring finger?" She asks while her eyes tear up a bit.

"I..I'm sorry. I didn't know." Lisa lowered her head. She doesn't know how to face the girl.

Scoffed, Caitlin said, "Didn't know? You know, we already engage for three years and how you didn't know when you entered a man's house with full of a woman's clothes inside the closet?"

Lisa surprised, and she covers her mouth before she shakes her head. "He..he said it was his ex's."

"Ex?" Caitlin sighs. "What kind of ex who let her dress and thing inside his ex's house? Tell me? Who's that idiot? And you believe in him?" She scoffed again.

"I really..didn't know. If I know, I would've -"

"Yeah, right..you didn't know." Caitlin swallows hard before she sniffles a bit. "Said the one who takes my only man away from me. You're happy now, aren't you? Congrats for crumbling my life."

"I know he's changing, and I ignore all the signs he hints on me. I was the one who idiot. I thought he would marry me, but I'm the one who he throws away at the end."

Standing up, Caitlin smiles at her while still crying. "Congrats on your marriage."

Lisa clench her fist. She really didn't mean to hurt her. Caitlin was right. Why didn't she use her brain at that time? Why did she even run to him that night? It's all start with her, isn't it? If only…if only she didn't come to Harry's penthouse that night, she wouldn't have to run into Brian, and they would never have met that day.

Their path would not be crossed like this. But, again..it was too late. It's too messy right now, and Brian would never let her go. She is his obsession. She is like a drug to him that'll only make him go nuts.