Marvin grabbed Elizabeth so hard that it hurt, and her face went pale. She was trying to figure out why that name sounded so familiar.
Robert … Williams…
And there she had it - she finally remembered this resounding name.
The person in charge of the Williams Group seemed to have returned to the country all of a sudden two years ago and then taken over the power of this huge consortium.
More importantly... The Williams Group has been competing with the Bennetts over some important projects recently.
A month ago, late at night, Marvin came back heavily drunk. He dragged Elizabeth onto the swing in the yard and was about to torture her.
She tried to resist it and fight back, and then furious Marvin took out a golf club from the trunk and wanted to hit her.
Her loud sobbing and crying drew the housekeeper and servant’s attention, and she was rescued by their persuasion.
That night Marvin was so mad. Elizabeth was lucky enough to have avoided a harsh beat-up, but Marvin demanded she should kneel outside the hallway without any clothes on.
She knelt naked for a really long time, crying so much that her voice became hoarse. She wasn’t let in until dawn.
She found out later from the housekeeper the reason why Marvin was so irritable that night. It was because he lost an important project worthy of hundreds of millions of dollars to another businessman after long-time bidding.
And it was Robert Williams who sealed the deal.
...
Remembering Robert’s name hit Elizabeth hard. She couldn’t help but start to fear.
Marvin was cruelly possessive. There was once a driver who glanced at Elizabeth and ended up with two broken legs.
Things were just worse now that Robert has become a rival in the market to Marvin.
She didn’t have time to mind that he was pulling her hair painfully. She was trembling and explained, “Marvin, my dear brother, I really didn't approach him. It was truly a coincidence that day. I was shocked by the gunshots and then passed out. If I did not meet him today, I wouldn’t even remember who he was...”
Marvin let go of her hair, grabbed her waist, and hugged her face-to-face in an extremely intimate posture.
He looked at her with cold eyes, as if he was examining a suspicious cheating wife.
Elizabeth was innocent, but the way he looked at her just made her shudder.
Biting on her lip, she mustered up the courage to re-affirm him, “I told you the truth, I wouldn’t dare to lie to you, ever.”
Marvin’s hot palm landed on her soft waist, pinching her hard.
He was speaking in a tone of warning.
“I provide for you, therefore I own every inch of you. No one should lay hands on you. The reason why you are still alive is that I am still sexually attracted to you. But if you are tarnished... Fancy clubhouses like the Banquet that serve the powerful upper class will no longer accept you. I will discard you wherever you should belong and let you be the dirtiest and cheapest whore.”
Elizabeth’s body was shivering, and she was too scared to utter a word.
She knew that Marvin meant what he just said, she knew how vicious he had always been.
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