Chapter 33 - Such a Small World

Bella clenched her fists and gnawed. “Fine.”

She was clearly drugged and raped, but the facts could be twisted into a deal by him.

Was this the sorrow of the poor?

Charles lifted her chin up and looked at her eyes. He was interested to see her constraining the anger in her eyes which she didn’t dare to show and then kissed her. His fingers rubbed her lips which turned a little red from his kiss, and he spoke flatly but with joy. “Bella, I really look forward to your next hunger strike. Your body on the aphrodisiac is pretty hot, I enjoyed it.”

Shit!

Bella was angrily shivering. Her hunger strike was just a sign that she wouldn’t be enslaved. She didn’t really want to starve or even die.

She looked very delicate and slender, but her character stayed firm and strong. She would not easily commit suicide. Moreover, she still had her mother. What would happen to her mother if she died? She hadn’t let her mother live a happy life.

Charles bit her shoulder gracefully and took a sip of blood, his eyes flashed satisfaction. Her blood tasted delicious. He was unwilling to let her go once he had tasted it.

He looked at her body shiver, Charles unexpectedly wiped Bella’s wound and applied the medicine for her and then turned gracefully. “Get back before 8 o'clock.”

Bella looked at Charles’s straight and noble back, an idea flashed across her mind, and she immediately rushed to the window and quickly opened the curtains.

The dazzling sunshine fell on Charles’s body, like a bunch of spotlights, which made him look even more attractive.

Bella felt frustrated, why didn’t he die?!

The sudden sunshine felt warm on his skin, Charles stopped what he was doing and turned around, he looked at her with obvious sarcasm in his eyes, “Bella, are you daft?”

He looked at her confused face with a sneer, turned back around and left.

He closed the door and touched his lips that had just bitten her shoulder. There was still some sneer in his eyes. That woman had thought he was a vampire.

Stupid! Their child should better avoid inheriting her intelligence.

He looked at Ziv who waited beside the door. “Ask Elsa to the study. It must be noted on the agenda that our child should avoid inheriting Bella’s intellect.”

When Bella arrived home, Bess was eating a hamburger with a bottle of cola in front of her.

“Mom, why don't you eat steak and vegetables? You are malnourished, you need to eat something nutritious.” Bella put her bag down and walked to the kitchen. When she opened the refrigerator, she found it was empty.

As the supermarket was close to their home, Bella only bought a turkey instead of vegetables. After all her mother could buy fresh vegetables for herself every day. But she didn’t expect that her mother hadn’t bought any food lately.

“Mom, why don't you buy some steak and vegetables? We have money now.” Bella sat down in front of Bess and looked at her thin face, she was concerned about her. “Mom, are you sick? Why does your face look so ill?”

Bess finished up her hamburger and smiled. “I have no appetite these days. Don't worry.” She touched her face, it was still covered with gauze, “Because my face is bandaged, it is difficult to sleep. Therefore, I wake up several times at night.” Pointing at her own face, Bess asked with some concern. “Does it really look terrible? Oh, I might lose my daughter’s face.”

Bella looked at her humorous mother with a smile and walked over to hug her tightly. “Mum, how lucky I am to have such a kind and cute mother.” Her eyes flashed determination, “Mum I will definitely make you happy.”

Bess smilingly patted her face. “Ok, Mum must be happy in the future and envied by others because of you.”

Then she asked. “Did everything go well last time? Your boss looked really angry.”

Bella replied carelessly. “Yes, he did. He is extremely strange. I really don't know why the abnormal people are so rich these days. But normal people like us are so poor.”

Bess was amused by Bella’s pretend resentful tone. “How could you complain about your boss like this? In my opinion, he is actually good, but his temper is not. If it were anything else, he wouldn’t be willing to lend you $100,000 after all.”

Silence.

Bess sighed with pity. “He just has a bad temper. Otherwise, he is a great man.”

Bella carefully tempted, “Dora once joked with me that I could take advantage of working with him.”

“Bella, I am not a conservative person.” When it comes to love, Bess became discreet, “I hope you can find someone you love, and that would treat you well. But this man is not good for you in that way.” She sighed. “Bella, life is really long. Good looks and money can't maintain a lifelong relationship between couples. Only true love can make it work.”

“True love? A man would have to have a heart for that, and no man really has a true heart.” Bella disdained, “How honest was Martin at the beginning? His heart had only been kept for less than four years. When Dad married you, he had said it was ‘true love.’ But after I was born, he just disappeared. In this world, love changes so quickly.”

After that, Bella was aware that she had a slip of the tongue. She looked at Bess and guiltily said. “Mum, I didn't mean that...”

Bess raised a bitter smile. “Your father and I, it was all my love, not his.”

Bella saw that her mother was a little hurt, so she hurriedly cleaned the table and kept apologizing. “Mum, I am sorry, I shouldn’t mention that scum. Well, don’t think about the past anymore. Let's go to the supermarket to buy some food and make a big meal tonight. I have to go back after dinner.”

Hearing that Bella was going to have dinner with her, Bess happily went to the supermarket with her daughter.

When they left the supermarket to go home with their food, several women walked towards them. Bella quickly caught her mother's hand and walked to the other side of the street.

“Bella? Is that you?” Someone rushed forward to stop her.

Bella was vigilant and looked at the woman who appeared to be friendly. Her eyes looked like ice, and she asked coldly, “What do you want?”

It was her “sister,” Lynn, who stopped her.

Lynn smiled faintly. “Nothing. I saw you, and just want to say hello. By the way, I have officially become the spokeswoman of BD.” Then she said as if she had just seen Bess, “Oh, Bess, you are also here, what happened to your face?”

Bella quaked with anger. The people in the community were like birds of a feather, they stuck together. She didn’t believe that Lynn didn’t know her mother had been beaten.