Chapter 25 - Take Responsibility For Their Own Fault

"No!!" Raymond covers both of his ears with his hand. He walks back and forth when his mother slapping Luna in the hall. All of the maids and bodyguards in the house has been called and forced to witness the brutality Madam Wayne show them.

"Stop!! Please!! No!!" He starts ripping his clothes, scratches his body until its red and leaves a bit of blood on the scratches wound.

Barbara then calls out another two men for holding his son's hands and feet and let him see with his open eyes.

"Look at this, son, you do want this ugly woman to be your wife at all. She just your grandmother puppet to make you dumber." She scowled at Luna which almost faint from getting hit by her mother-in-law.

"Stop!... Hic! Hic! Stop!"

"Bring me scissor!" Barbara looks at the maid who looks terrified. Without any delay, the maid runs to the kitchen and find a scissor as the madam requested.

"H-here, ma'am." She tremblingly gives the scissor with two hands and after the Barbara took it from her, she immediately runs back to where she's standing before and lowered his head, not dare to look at the next scene.

Barbara observing Luna's outfit and then she lifts up her face using the pointy edge of the scissor.

"I do wonder, what's so good in you that that old wench pick you up from the trash society? Just because of your look?" She tilts her face and looks at both sides of Luna's face.

Scoffing, she said again. "You're ugly no matter where I look at."

"Again.." She moves to Luna's back, yanking her hair roughly to which once again, Luna's gasped in pain. Her tears already wet her face, her mouth's bleeding to her neck and wet her collar of the shirt.

"Ack!"

"No!!" Raymond aggressively moves his shoulder want to loosen the grip on her shoulder by the two bulging men which is much more stronger than him.

"Why that old wench bring you here? I was planning on my son's marriage with the Rochester family, yet, you, who had nothing, took the title just like that! Today, let me show you, where are you belong!"

Barbara cut her long hair into unevenly short and ugly. Luna could only cry, hoping that this would end sooner. Her body was so much in pain and her heart was shattered to see her hair's fall all over the marble floor.

"Stop! Stop! No!" Raymond banging his head on the floor. His face turns so red as he could do nothing except for screaming, struggling and crying to see his darling's crying face.

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The mansion turns grimly silent when it turns nighttime.

Just a few hours ago, Barbara returns back to the city leave the house in the mess after breaking half of the furniture and decoration before they were home and after she's done torturing Luna and her son's mental, she leaves the house just like that.

Luckily, Doctor Fang is the in-house doctor that has been charged by Madam Victoria to look at the young master's condition. If not, they all would probably need to go to the hospital for the treatment.

Raymond has been locking up himself in the room after his mother leaves, the maid who had a nursed experience has been attending on Mr. Carson's injury and Doctor Fang attending on Luna's.

While cleaning the wound on Luna's corner of lips, he sighs a bit. "Does it hurt?"

Luna shakes her head.

Looking at the girl, he then pointing his index finger to her chest. "I mean, here."

Luna nodded her head without saying anything. Her eyes dull and lifeless.

"I know this is difficult for you. But, hang in there. In this mansion, we all Madam Victoria's people. If word got to her, Madam Barbara might be banned from coming here again. So, cheer up." he tries to cheer her up by saying that.

Even though, he was not sure if Victoria will do something like that or not. She sometimes can be mean too and sometimes, she can be persuaded. All he knows is, Victoria loves her grandson more than his birth mother.

"How's Raymond?" Luna asks after they both silent for a quite some times.

"He's.. mentally breaks down" Doctor Fang reply honestly. There's no need to hide from her because Raymond needs her to cure him, mentally.

Luna stares the floor absent-mindedly. Of course, he would mentally break down, seeing a vicious scene right in front of his eyes probably would scare him out.

'Why did his mother intently doing that in front of her own son? Why is his mother so much hating her? Rochester family? Who is that?'

"Right, before you went to bed, please help me to check on his head. He banged his head on the floor pretty hard, I'm afraid that there's an internal injury because he just barely recover from the last surgery." Doctor Fang said before Luna went out of the treatment room in another building near the main house.

Luna nodded her head and head to the main house. It's already pretty late. She's been in the treatment room for a quite long too. This is a hectic and bad day for her.

While she walks down the hall, she met with Mr. Carson who happens want to go downstairs.

"Are you okay, Ma'am?" He asks while trailing his eyes on her face which red and blue, plus with the swollen eyes because of the crying, she totally look terrible and not like her usual at all.

"How about you? Is your head, okay?" She smiles at him even though it pretty hurt to keep her lips curled up.

"You should just let me take the beating." He said with guilty in his voice.

"No, you're not too young to get beaten up. Let the younger take responsibility for their own fault."

"Ma'am-"

"No, don't say a word. Goodnight Mr. Carson." She left him at the hall as she opens the door to Raymond's bedroom.