Chapter 5 The examination

"Please ... I promise I won't run again! Just please don't do this to me... I beg you!" I struggled intensely with my voice echoing through the walls and the never ending tears broke free from my eyes again.

The two maids tried as gently as they could to force me down the long hallway but I resisted them even more.

They had all promised me that I was safe now so what changed? were they all playing in my face alongside their master? Betrayal was something I was familiar with but exploiting human feelings by being nice to them and then having their free will taken was just outright babaric!

The maids exchanged guilty looks but I knew it was all a sham. They couldn't care less about me enough to save me from their master's clutches. But still I understood what it felt like having your hands tied in such situations so I couldn't blame them.

"Miss please! The more you resist the harder you make it for yourself!"

I realized too late that the passage they were leading me through was far away from the wing i had this morning. It was more deserted and an eerie feeling attached like it wasnt a part of the same mansion.

"No,no,no!"

I tried backing away but they wouldn't let me.

I became even more confused when they stopped outside a room marked MEDICAL SUITE.

Everything in me screamed that I would make it out alive.

And I seen and heard enough stories of houses with dedicated medical rooms and they never had any good ending attached to them instead the most Babaric acts were always done behind the closed door.

"w-what is this place you've brought me to? I don't want to go in there please! Don't take me–" the door quietly creeked open slowly and despite the hold of maids on me I tried backing away in horror of what to come.

i didn't know much of what I had expected to jump me but seeing an older woman in white coat stepping out with a calm and serene look was never part of it.

She had the graceful smile that never left mum's face and for a moment I unknowingly dropped my guards as I became lost in her presence.

Two more persons emerged behind her and that seemed to break the little reverie in my mind as I instinctively flinched back expecting more men or guards to pop up any moment from now. Noticing my defensive stance the older woman immediately moved to reassure me.

"It's okay dear no one is gonna hurt you." Her soothing voice failed to calm me.

"And thats the problem! People always say that to people before they hurt them!" I boomed out in a fury of rage.

A hurt look her face as her features softened even more probably realizing how fûcked up my mental state worse. But I don't want their pity! I want to be free instead. She glanced behind me and nodded to dismiss the maids. I instinctively held on tight to their hands not letting them go. They couldn't bring me this far just leave me for far worse strangers right?

They gently shook their heads as they tried to pry my hands away from theirs to leave me behind. They couldn't bring two nurses immediately moved to hold me as I tried to make a dash after the now exiting maids. Struggling in their hold, they managed to drag me inside with the door closing shut behind the older woman.

"it's okay dear I know you are absolutely right not to trust any one around you right now but you can take my words as it is that you're now in safe hands."

She smiled warmly at me and I so badly wanted to believe her. Maybe she had the maternal instincts to feel what I have gone through in the hands of these people. Maybe she knew better to help me leave here unscathed.

No dummy! You already did that once and where did it get you? My subconscious screamed at me.

Drawing my hands free I tried fleeing to the door to open it but it wouldn't bulge. I banged hard and still no one came to my rescue.

I heard slow footsteps behind me and that just made me back more into the door in fear."we don't have to do anything you aren't fine with you know?"

My brows drew together in confusion as I looked back at the doctor. Shocked colored my face as I realized This was the first time I was being given autonomy over my body. They all looked at me with sad expressions like I was the most pitiful thing they had ever seen.

"But before then, you would have to let us change your bandage as you are losing more blood by the minute. You might even pass out if you delay any longer."

my eyes flew to where the now ripped bandages was. Blood smudges were everywhere as it had seeped through my dress leaving a damp mess there. My hands flew to my stomach to stop it but that just seemed to worsen it even more.

Scared I was going to bleed to death, adrenaline rushed through my veins as I began to panic. "P-please do something!" I croaked out now scared. The nurses rushed to bring me to single bed and laid me down as they got to work.

They tore through my dress with one of the medical tool present as I became fully exposed to three pairs of eyes. I instinctively tried to cover my genitalia to avoid them seeing me as I was but the doctor who had been intently watching me just smiled.

"it's okay to feel that way but you don't have to be shy about anything. We all have the same thing." That was true technically but being that exposed insuch a vulnerable state wasn't something I had expected to happen.

"How did you get all these bruises?" She gently asked as she took in the awful sight of my body. I felt even more ashamed to look into their eyes as I laid there.

"My father!" I said as the tears silently rolled down my eyes. No one said anything or asked any questions as they got to work and I became lost in my head. They fussed over me for what felt like ages when in reality was less than a hour.

And when I felt they were done, I looked up to see signal for the two nurses to step out. Fear surged through at the thought of what was about to come. I immediately shot up the bed grabbing the bed covers with me as a shield.

"W-w-whats going on? And why are they suddenly leaving?" I asked as a surge of panic flew through me. She gently pushed my shoulders down to the bed and reassured me that the next procedure might make me feel more vulnerable being exposed to many eyes.

Even though I didn't know what else to expect i complied as we were now left alone and she moved straight to putting in her gloves. "What I am about to do might seem uncomfortable at first but it becomes better once you've decide to let go." I slowly nodded anticipating for what to come.

She moved down between my legs parting them wide on the bed before dipping her index finger in my vulva. The sudden sensation made my legs clamp shut immediately but she smiled reassuringly at me while stroking strands of stray hair away from my forehead. I relaxed into her touch and taking that as a sign she once again parted my legs to continue.

i didn't know what to feel like at the intrusion on what I had longed deemed as my dignity. It felt awful but if bearing this meant they would let me free then I would do it.

I continuously stared at the ceiling feeling embarrassed as she dabbed and swapped all along my private area. I prayed silently for it to come to an end and no sooner ahe said "Done."

surprised i croaked out "T-that was it?" She nodded enthusiastically as she removed her gloves dumping them in a trash can nearby.

"I would go out and ask for them to tend to you hmm?" She moved to go but in a second I hurriedly grabbed at her coat.

"W-why does he care so much as to go through the trouble for this?" My voice was barely above a whisper but she heard me quite alright given the smile that had fallen from her face replaced by a sad expression. She looked like she was going to tell me but then hesitated before saying

"Thats something you would have to asks him yourself."

“But you know.” I quickly rasped out still holding on tight to her but all she did was give me a sympathetic smile and said,

“I know enough to understand that you shouldn’t worry about being harmed here.”

From that I could deduce that she knew but I didn't speak on it again.

I was left all alone to my thoughts as I wondered if I was truly saved from the clutches of suffering or this was just another farce i had to endure. But the older woman wouldn't be so heartless to give me such hopes right? I just w–a knock came through and not long the same maids entered looking conscious before wrapping me up in a silky robe amd escorted me back to where I assumed was my room.

I sat on the edge of the bed, staring blankly at my hands because I couldn’t just understand any of it. The stranger whose name i had discovered to be Lucien De Luca had saved me.

He had given me food, Clothes A bed and assigned a doctor to treat me without so much as a complaint. He hadn’t allowed anyone to hurt me in his presence even when I proved to be difficult and a handful. Yet he’d also ordered an examination without explaining why.

What kind of man was he? And why did I have the strange feeling that I had only seen the surface of him? Laying down gently on my back I pulled the blanket around myself. And for the first time since arriving at the De Luca manor.

I wasn’t afraid of being attacked And rather I was afraid of something else. Something that rivaled to physical violence as I don't know what he wanted from me.