170 HELP! PLEASE, HELP ME!

Eva did her best to get free from her father's hold of her, to no avail she was dragged back into that house without mercy. Once inside the house, she was pushed to sit down at the sofa.

"You listen to me! Whatever it is your planning to do, you might as well forget about it. From now on you will be locked up until I say so." Edward growled at her with looks that could kill.

"Come on father! You went out half of the time without a care in the world what happen to me, now you come back and would ground and lock me up, for what?" She asks accusingly tears flowing down her face.

Edward felt terrible after hearing Eva's word, what she said were true. Ever since she was a child, he never paid much attention to her. If she had been a boy, he probably would have treated her differently.

"It doesn't matter what I had done and what I'm doing now. What matter is, I need to take care of my debt, and you're the one I'm using as a form of payment. Therefore, you cannot go anywhere. Understood!"

"What do you mean, a form of payment. What am I, a check?" Eva acting bravely in front of her father now and arguing.

However, deep inside of her, she's trembling and afraid for her own safety. She needed to find a way to escape, or she would be a goner.

Her father had lost it, he's even going to use her as a method of payment for his gambling debt. Whatever he meant by that, she doesn't want to find out.

Eva calculated in her mind the escape route. Her father is currently blocking the doorway so there's no way she could make a run for it.

However, if she could grab that small base and knock him out somehow... Eva was about to implement her plan when Edward's phone started ringing.

"Hello! Yes, Mr. Wright..." Edward turned to her while talking on the phone. He grabbed her arm and pulled her towards her room.

Eva started fighting off her father while screaming. Edward was balancing between the phone on his other and Eva on the other one. "Mr. Wright, can you hold on for a minute please."

He put down his phone on top of the corner table by Eva's room. Then, *Bam, thud!* He hit her hard right on her stomach.

"Ugh!" Eva felt a gut-wrenching pain and slightly light-headed from the blow.

"You stay put, or I'll beat you to death!" He threw a kick towards her face, luckily Eva was quick to protect herself and able to cover her face with her two hands.

Eva still in crouching position from the blow, cried silently from the pain.

Edward picked the phone back up and continued his conversation with Mr. Wright.

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6:30 pm Ethan was pacing back and forth in his living room. He keeps on checking his phone and the time. Eva supposed to be there at 5:00 pm and already late one and half hour;

He's worried that his past history would repeat again. 'What had I done to deserve this? The first girl I had ever liked, didn't show up on our first date. And when I finally met her after four years, she's already taken by my own brother.'

'Now I finally found another girl that I like, and she's now one and half hour late. What kind of luck is this?' Ethan was deep in thought, he had forgotten his phone in his room and did not saw the text Eva had sent.

[Help! Please, help me!] Eva had sent it when she was still at her room preparing to run away.

Bentong had finished getting ready a long time ago. He's so excited to show Ethan his new look.

He went to the room in search for Ethan, what he saw instead was Ethan phone with blinking light. [Sign of a text message]

Since he doesn't know how to read yet, he picked up the phone to bring to Ethan wherever he might be.

Bentong found Ethan by the window looking outside in deep thought. "Brother Ethan, look at me! Aren't I cute?" Holding the phone to give him.

Ethan did not hear a word Bentong said. He was still thinking deeply about his situation.

"Brother Ethan, Brother!!! Didn't you hear me? " Bentong tag on his shirt to get his attention. While trying to hand him the phone.

Ethan finally realizes that Bentong was trying to get his attention. "What is it? Are you hungry already?" He asked with a half smile while reaching for the phone.

"No! I'm not hungry, I only want to show you my new look, see!"