For days, she was locked inside the villa like a prisoner.
Three times a day, the guards would ask if she had realized her mistake. Madelynn never gave an answer. She spent the time staring out the window and counting down the days. In five more days, she would be gone from this life for good.
Sitting on her balcony swing, her phone kept buzzing with texts. All of them from her sister.
She ignored them until she couldn’t anymore and decided to read the latest one.
[You couldn’t even get your parents to keep loving you, and now you can’t even handle a man. If your parents could pick me over you, then best believe that Oliver will dance to my tunes too. Just one word from me, and he’ll never return home to you.]
She proved her words.
For the next couple of days, Oliver didn’t return to the villa. Cecelia never let her have peace though. She kept sending her pictures and videos everyday.
She sent videos of her kissing Oliver. Pictures of them walking by the beach. Videos of him cooking for her and taking her shopping to get whatever she wanted.
She even sent intimate videos that no one else should’ve seen.
In the past, Madelynn would’ve gone mad with anger and pain, but now… she was just numb.
A man like that wasn’t worth crying over. She knew better now.
On the fourth day, they finally let her leave her room, but because she still refused to admit to her mistakes, food and water was still withheld from her.
She decided to take a stroll through the garden and smell the fresh flowers, but she had underestimated how weak she really was from the lack of food.
She tripped on a fallen branch and fell face flat on the rough hard floor. Searing hot pain shot through her stomach and the next thing she saw was blood.
Madelynn instinctively yelled out in agony. It wasn’t even from the pain. It was from the knowledge that something had definitely happened to her baby. The same baby that she had tried so hard to have. The same baby that had come after so much pressure from hers and Oliver’s parents. The baby that had come only because Oliver had gotten so drunk and had sex with her.
The guards rushed her to the car to drive to the hospital. But they were unable to get out of the gates of the community, because the roads were blocked.