The Beast s Slave

Married To My Ex-Fiancé's Silent Uncle

Ming Yue

Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

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She was sleeping peacefully inside her bedroom, one of those deep sleeps she loves. But suddenly, in the middle of her sleep, she heard a loud bang coming from outside her room. It wasn't a firework or a car crash, but a gunshot.

A loud and disturbing gunshot sound rang through her ears, giving shivers down her spine. "What's going on?" she asked no one in particular. Just then a more disturbing gunshot rang through her ear followed by a scream. "Fucksh*t!!!" she exclaimed and jumped off her bed instantly and laid flat on the cold tiles. She closed her eyes, shivering in fear. She has never been this scared in her entire life.

"Mom!!" she whispered as tears slipped from her closed eyes and slid down her cheeks.

She was feeling so scared. "Baby!! baby!!" her mom whispered as she crawled into Lisa's room. "Mummy!! Mummy!!" Lisa cried out helplessly. "Shhh baby, don't cry!" her mom whispered as she got closer to her and hugged her tightly. Gunshots were still heard from the outside. "Everything is going to be fine baby!" her mom said, trying to calm her down.

She moved closer to her mom and hugged her tightly feeling the warmth. She felt safe in her mother's arms. After the death of her father her mother has always been her protector, she has always been there for her and now here she is trying to console her daughter who was scared, telling her everything was going to be fine when she knew deep down nothing was going to be fine.

Before the death of her husband, his last wish was for her to take Lisa to a faraway place once she's 18 and in a few days from now Lisa would be 18. "Mummy, I love you," Lisa whispered as she held her mom tightly.

Rebecca felt her heart melt instantly. She stared at her baby who was holding unto her and the tears she's been holding for long, she finally let go. "I promise you, Lisa, I won't let any harm come your way. I'll protect you as long as I live, " Rebecca thought and sniffed.

"I love you too baby," she whispered as sadness swept over her. Suddenly, the door to the room burst open revealing a strange man in black, putting on a face mask making them unable to see his face. "Mummy!!!!" Lisa screams in fear immediately the strange man barged in but then her mom held her so tight.

At that moment Lisa felt like disappearing. "Please don't harm my daughter! please!" Rebecca, Lisa's mother, cried out as the strange man took Lisa away from her.

"Tell that to your husband when you get to hell!!" the strange man said and shot Rebecca on her forehead. "Mommy!!" Lisa yelled as she saw blood gushing out of her mother's forehead. She became numb instantly, she felt the whole world came crashing on her but immediately she regained herself she screamed at once.

"Mom!!" She cried in agony as she saw her mom dying slowly, bit by bit in front of her eyes and she couldn't do anything.

Lisa turned to the strange man who was holding her and bit his hands then ran to her mom who was laying flat on the ground. "Mommy please stay with me! please, mom!" Lisa cried out as her mother closed her eyes slowly.

"I'm sorry!" was the last word Rebecca said to her daughter before she finally Blackout. "No! no! mom! You promised to stay with me. You promised never to leave me, mom, you said you were gonna protect me," Lisa screamed in tears as the man dragged her away.

She felt her whole world come crashing down on her at that moment. She felt this was the end of the world. The only person she had in this world. The only person that gave her hope and joy was gone.

She has nothing left, she has lost everything. "No, please help my mommy!" she cried out as sadness filled her heart but the strange man paid no attention to her cries. "Please! I'll do whatever you want just to save my mommy!" she kept yelling nonstop.

"Fu*kshit!! you talk too much! just shut up already!" the strange man said in his cold voice and smacked her hard on her left cheek making her fall to the ground. "This voice sounds familiar!" Lisa thought as pain seared through her. Lisa sniffed in tears and placed her hands on her left cheeks which were hurting like hell.

"Any more words from you, I'm going to kill you!" the man who just smacked her said and she nodded, tears sliding down her cheeks. "Now stand up!" he yelled and pulled her hair making her yelp in pain.

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