Chapter 5

She just let her self stared at the man's back until he's already out of reach of her eyes. 'Why does it know his name?' Question formed in the girl's mind. She needed to know why, why she was here and why the man knew her when she didn't know him.

He stood up and walked to the door. When he turned it his heart pounded as it opened.

He quickly pushed open the door to get out. He looked around, hoping he could see someone but he just looked for a way out. If his calculations are correct, the room where he came from is on the second floor.

It didn't take long for him to turn around when he saw the grand staircase. The house is not that big but it was enough to be lost.

Her eyes were still rolling as she walked downstairs. The most she has to do at that time is to find the door where she can get out but that's not what she wants to do, she wants to meet the man again to clarify things, because she will go crazy mentally. Maybe when she could explain to the man properly that she really didn't know it and she didn't know anything about its accusations it would set her free. Well, she hopes so.

When he saw the elderly woman who had delivered him food yesterday he quickly called her in a polite manner.

"'Mom, can I talk to your boss?"

His speech is good and relatively good and he doesn't murmur anymore.

The butler of the house was shocked to hear Elloisa's polite voice. The butler was surprised at his behavior, it wasn't Elloisa he knew and knew. The Elloisa he knew was disrespectful and always laughed at him. Another surprise of the old man was the type of its voice. There is something strange about it.

"Mom? There's a problem ... Yes?" Eloissa woke up the old natameme just since she called it.

The old man seemed to be getting upset. "I'm sorry, ma'am, but you can't talk to señorito first because he has a lot of work to do." Answer of the old man. He expected Eloissa to yell at him but the opposite happened.

"Is that so ..." Eloissa scratched her cheek.

The old man seemed to know what was happening but he couldn't ask. When he remembered to ask, he called the old man again I just have a question .

The lady nodded in response.

He took a deep breath before opening his mouth. "What ... what year is it now.?" He wanted to close his eyes because of the class when he asked.

She has to ask that, because she feels that the longer she has been imprisoned, she is no longer the child imprisoned in that room now.

The lady frowned but still answered him. "2022 and ... hija." even the butler was confused by Eloissa's actions. But he can't send this woman again! It's very good at drama, it even surpasses the actor.

To Eloissa's shock at what she heard, she sat down on the cold tiles. Her lips parted and her heart was beating fast.

"No! It can't be! No way. It can't be that long!" Her voice was shaking while muttering those words consistently.

All he knew was that he was imprisoned in the year two-thousand-seventeen. She was in caged for four years long! No wonder, she felt so unconfortble while talking.

Eloissa didn't notice that the lady was staring at her and so was the person she was looking for, the señorito.

"WHAT'S the matter?" Franco asked the butler of his house. He saw Eloissa talking to the maid of him and after that he witnessed Eloissa fell down on her knees, she looks uneasy.

He immediately noticed the lady's hesitation.

He made his voice stern. Mom Milda, what's happening?"

The lady was hesitant if she would tell the señorito what she noticed about the girl but in the end she just chose not to let him know. "Nothing, sir." She pulled the lady she had cared for since she was a child into the kitchen. When she was sure that Eloissa could no longer hear them, she spoke up. "Senorita, I know you know that your husband is acting again pretending he doesn't know you ..."

Franco nodded. "I know, Mom. I won't send him again." He said reassuringly. Thelady sneezed again before asking again in a lower voice. Eloissa made sure she couldn't hear them. "I thought you filed a case against him, son?"

Fraco smiled sparingly and nodded. "But I want to see how far she can go again this time?" He smirked.

The butler sighed. He's worried about it, what if it's stupid again? Stuck and scary though it was sometimes she knew he was the most gentle and kind man she knew. He has taken care of it since it was in elementary school so he already knows it very well.

"You don't think you're playing with fire, son?" He asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, I don't feel anything for my husband anymore and our marriage will soon be annulled, before I surrender him to the police I will first sign him when Atty. Deandree Hayward fixes it. your documents required for annulment. " Franco explained as the lady calmed down.

Eloissa FOUND the path to the garden she had just overlooked yesterday from the room where she was. He was trapped in a big house — no, scratch that, he was in a mansion. He just didn't notice that, maybe because he didn't get around much. But now that he is outside he can clearly see how big and beautiful a modern type mansion is. The mansion stood proud and elegance. The backyard was magnifies let.

She sat in her bermuda shorts and stared at the beautiful flowers. It was obviously well-kept because of the beauty of its bloom.

They are so beautiful and alive." She muttered as if the flowers will listen to her She enjoyed herself looking at the flowers. He walked freely on the harden and sometimes he would run around. The happiness of being finally enjoy the breeze was visible on her face.

She may not be totally free but she can feel it, once she talk and explain to the man who brought her here. There is no reason for him to make her stay here, right? She was just mistook as someone they knew.

As he happily breathed in the fresh air he felt someone staring at him. He looked around and he wasn't mistaken. The dangerous man is standing not meters away from her and he is looking at her intently.

IF Eloissa had been looking for it before, now that she could see it, it seemed like she just wanted to back off. She don't want to meet this man again! He is always nervous whenever he sees it. He stood abaout six-two in height, he is masculine, the vieny arms of his are in full show because he is wearing a simple white t-shirt and a simple khaki short. But even at that kind of look, he still stood all mighty.

Eloissa whisper. "What a terrible man." Before she decided to approach him.

As he approached it, his heart was beating faster and faster due to nervousness.

When he finally got closer, he sneezed first and was ready to speak when he was ahead of him.

"Stop fooling me around, Eloissa." His voice was calm but even so, he's still look dangerous. "Where is the money you stole from me? Ah, the first question should be 'where is your old-man?'" He smirked before he continued. "You have nothing to get from him?"

All the courage he had gathered to talk about it suddenly disappeared. His brain could not accept what it was saying. How is he being accused? Is the man in question playing with her? Or maybe destiny is playing tricks on him. He no longer knew what the first question he would first ask here. If he said that he had just come out of the cellar where he was imprisoned, would he believe it? How could she explain everything? Would the man believe her?

She wanted to shake her head at the extreme confusion she felt but before she could do that, her vision slowly turning into black until she lost consciousness.

ELOISSA woke up feeling dizzy and cold. Her body is trembling because of the coldness she is feeling.

When he opened his eyes his eyesight immediately rotated. Then she remembered what happened earlier, after approaching the man — she doesn't even know, she lost consciousness.

He did not know who had brought him back to the room where he was.

Even though his body was still shaking he tried to get up. But he also lay down again when he felt that his body could not even sit up. He was lying on his back as he hugged himself. The thin comforter that covered her body was not enough. She is still shivering in coldness.

Until he heard the sound of the door signal that someone had entered.

Nay Milda's lips parted when she saw the girl's condition. He quickly laid the tray with only food on the floor and approached Eloissa's trembling body. He knew his marriage to his wife was too great but he couldn’t help but feel pity for her plight.

With his palm he touched its forehead, there he realized it was burning with fever I'm cold. Help" the girl said in a weak and trembling voice. There are also tears dripping from its eyes.

"Sandals." The old man answered calmly and ran to his room to get a thicker blanket. He passed the señorito in the living room but he just shrugged.

He just shook as he took big steps back to Eloissa's room.

He quickly wrapped the blanket around the girl's trembling body. The lady was stunned when Eloissa held her hand tightly then pulled it closer to her.

With her eyes closed, she was muttering a word without her knowing it. "H — elp ... they ... they caged me." It whispered in a trembling voice.

The lady didn't know what to do, Eloissa was diffenitely dreaming. "Awake .." The lady lightly caressed his cheek until she noticed that her tears were slowly falling which surprised her even more.

Then Eloissa continued muttering a words. "They're animals..ma, pa, they locked me in that dark room for too long, ma, pa, help." Her voice was weak and in pain.

The lady did not realize that she had already pushed Eloissa to bed and hugged her. Even in his dream he did not see the day he would embrace it. The only thing the lady knew was how bad his habit was, she didn't approach him before because he hated her 'raw' because he was just an assistant. But that night was weird, he couldn't think that it was just part of the drama to make them believe again, the woman he hugged was very different from the woman he knew.

A few minutes passed before he felt its equal breathing, signaling that it had slept peacefully. He slowly removed his arm under Eloissa's head.

He got up carefully, sat on the side of her bed and stared at her gentle face. With his finger he wiped her cheek with blurred tears.

Until he looked down at the hand that was still holding him but it was already widely attached to him.

The lady blinked several times when she noticed its wrist. When he looked at another of its wrists his eyes widened.

My God ...." he whispered. "What ... what happened to you?" None of the lady's own question as her eyes remained focused on both its wrists.

Its two wrists turn black as if tied for a long time. He noticed that there was a part of it that had just calmed down.

He brought his face close to hers and there he just noticed its swollen cheek but it won’t be noticeable if you don’t look closely.

"Eloissa?" He calls here again, his chest rising and falling because of the depth of his breathing.

"How can we believe you if you've done it before." When he spoke to the unconscious maiden.

"You once pretended like you didn't remember but what did you do after you got our heart back? You have almost nothing left for your husband."

The lady wanted to be angry but every time she looked at her wrist it seemed to touch her feelings.

Until he touched its wrist again.

He wanted to make sure that was true. But no matter what angle he looked at it was true, that it wasn’t just fiction.

He knew he shouldn't have done that but he wanted to examine its whole body. That's why the lady just found herself at the feet of the girl. She carefully swung the blanket up to just her knees. Then he also rolled up his pajamas which he also wore the first night he arrived. But he never thought to inspect its body.

Its white legs were exposed to him but that did not distract him but to small wounds like insect bites. Her leg was not smooth, very different from what she had always seen Eloissa's sophisticated and smooth.

She sighed before returning the pajamas and blankets to their original order. Maybe he couldn't get it in just two months of losing it to the mansion. Maybe, yes when it comes to its leg wounds, but what about its wrist?

The lady fell asleep thinking. He didn’t even realize he was sleeping next to Eloissa.

In the middle of the night, Eloissa had a nightmare again, she muttered the same words again. Asking for help, begging to be free, and all of that was witnessed by Mom Milda. He took care of the girl almost all night because she did not want her fever to go down. He went back and forth to the kitchen several times to change the water in the dish he had prepared for it.

To Be Continued....