CHAPTER 95

She Should Be Lucky Walking Out Alive

The sound of struggles filled the room as Alexa held onto Penelope's hair, not letting it go a bit and the woman yelled, trying to get out of Alexa's hold.

"Let me go you crazy, animal!" Penelope yelled trying to get free from Alexa because her scalp was suffering, but Alexa was not letting go as she held on tighter to the hair pulling it with all her force.

She wonders why the two couples were adamant about sending her to an early grave, it was Maurice who was choking her, but now his wife is pulling off her scalp, so why can't she get a breathing space?

"How can you have the cheek to talk? Are you not ashamed? How can you even dare to ask me to let you go?" Alexa asked, and her eyes went to Maurice who was leisurely sitting around and Alexa's eyes brimmed with fire.

"How can you be comfortable with this scene? How can you even have the cheek to watch me go through…" Alexa was saying but she trailed off when Penelope dragged her hair from behind.

"Ahhh!" Alexa let out a muffled sound of pain and Penelope smirked seeing that she got her revenge.

She already has seething hatred towards Alexa so seeing the best way to direct the anger to her she doesn't mind doing it.

"This is for what you.." Penelope was saying , but she felt her body being blown away by the air and she winced in pain when her body collided with the floor.

"Ahh!" Penelope let out a painful cry and Alexa felt pity for her, but she was not going to sweep what she saw under the carpet.

"What were you doing with her? Why did I see you two almost making out?" Penelope asked with a raised eyebrow and the man chuckled hearing her words.

He wanted to correct her that they were not making out rather he was choking the girl, but he didn't want Alexa to know what he was capable of so he opted for just briefing her on what happened.

Alexa bit her lips after Maurice explained everything to her, and she wondered why she was impatient and she acted so harshly. She wondered how she was going to face the man after all that had happened, but Maurice broke into her thoughts.

"I…didn't know that.." Alexa was saying, but Maurice suspended her words.

"I am sorry that you got the wrong idea, I should have been more careful," Maurice apologized, and Alexa was shocked.

She could not believe that the man was apologizing to her after causing a ruckus, but she decided to leave it at that.

She was not ready to take responsibility for her actions so she decided to throw Penelope under the bus.

"So Madam imposter did you have anything to say for yourself…I mean you have to clean up this mess right and that alone," Alexa says.

Penelope gritted her teeth in anger upon hearing Alexa's words, but when she met Maurice's gaze she comported herself.

"What did you want me to do?" Penelope asked, seeing that was her best bet.

"If you are going to ask, I think you have lots of things to do…like telling me how all this whole conspiracy started," Maurice demanded.

Penelope, not having a choice, started telling Maurice everything he needed to know by skipping a detail and Alexa was left dumbfounded.

She was surprised that there could be so much that she was missing out but she saw Maurice unfazed despite hearing details on how he was ganged up against so she decided not to make a big deal out of it.

"Then you will have to say all this thing tomorrow.. without missing a word," Maurice ordered, and he started to list out things that she was going to do.

Penelope got up slowly from the floor under the watchful eyes of the couple and she was visibly shaken with fear meeting Maurice's cold face she wondered why she could even think of fooling the man.

"You better not play the trick you played with me today..you might not get lucky tomorrow if you try it," Maurice warned.

Penelope nods her head vigorously, and Alexa shakes her head seeing how the girl is reduced to nothing so she decides to say her piece.

"You should be lucky that you are leaving this place alive…because the last girl that entered this place…I only saw her body being moved out," Alexa says, winking at Penelope.

Goosebumps crept up Penelope's body as she hurried out of the study room after hearing Alexa's words.

"Did you think she is going to cooperate?" Alexa asked turning to look at Maurice and she stared intently at the man.

"She doesn't have another choice but to cooperate…I am not giving her the choice," Maurice says, and Alexa nods her head.

She doesn't understand the saga of people trying to pretend like the girl he was looking for and he wondered what the obsession was all about.

She never could wrap her arms around it.

"But can I ask you what is this all about…I mean the girl she is pretending to be and why are they going so far as to threaten you with her identity?" Alexa asked, and Maurice went silent hearing her words.

"What? Why are you asking all of a sudden?" Maurice asked, and Alexa went silent wondering why she was asking when she was not the nosy type.

Alexa also does not know why she was asking but she was just suddenly curious not understanding why everyone was so passionate about fooling him using the girl's identity.

'I want to know what kind of relationship you have with that girl for him to be getting tricked like this' Alexa pondered.

Alexa waited for Maurice to say something, but she noticed that the man had gone quiet and he just looked at her plainly.

She wondered if it was something that she should know, but the man didn't look willing to tell her so she decided to stop asking and not make a big deal out of it.

"If you don't want to tell me it is fine," Alexa says with a lump developed in her throat, and she wondered why the man was not open to her when she trusted him with everything.

She didn't even want to think about the look on his face so she turned around and hurried her footsteps to leave the room.

"When I was 18 I got kidnapped…" Maurice says, closing his eyes gently, and Alexa's steps skip hearing his words and she wonders if that was what Benedicta has been hinting at her all this while.

She never could believe that the man had gone through something so terrifying like that and she felt ashamed for asking him that kind of insensitive question, but she didn't know there was more to her shock.

"I am sorry…I didn't.." Alexa was saying, but Maurice broke into her words.

"I got kidnapped during the accident that I lost my parents in," Maurice finished his words, and Alexa let out the gasp she had been holding and she covered her mouth in shock.

'What? He lost his parents in an accident? Did he get kidnapped during the accident? Why is everything so hard for him!' Alexa exclaimed in her head, and her legs stood rooted where she did not want to move a bit.

What was she going to do after hearing so much?