MARILYN
My eyes flew open immediately I heard my name being called by several familiar voices.
My vision blurred for a while and it took up to twenty seconds to reset it to normal. I turned my head slowly only to see my friends playing around like nothing happened.
I reached out my hand to call one them but a grunt replaced it as my arm dropped midway. It nevertheless alerted them.
"Hey Mary. Are you still alive"
The girls surrounded my bed in no time and several questions was thrown at me like a hailstorm.
"Does it hurt anywhere?"
"Did you remember why happened?"
"Shall I bring water for you?"
I just stared at them, silent and unmoving, until the door cracked open again. From where I lay, I saw Madam Diana stomping towards us with her usual grumpy expression.
"Hey, Hey move aside" she snapped before positioning herself before me like doom.
She eyed me critically for a moment then took my wrist and checked my pulse. "You seems to be fine now. Get up and come with me"
Just like I was surprised, the other girls are also surprised as they look at her with exclamation, "Madam? Did you want to see her dead that soon?"
"Did I say I'm talking her to fuck?" She retorted back almost immediately, "Get on your businesses and stop gossipping!"
As she dished out the abuse, she leaves and I managed myself with the help of other girls to get up and walk after her.
I was now awake to the core and I couldn't even look up to see what's going on around me because it hurts if I open my eyes to a too illuminated environment.
Madam Diana opens the door to her office and sank on the chair and then watched me as I struggled to pull the chair and sit down.
I hiccuped for a while before finding voice, "Why do you bring me here Madam?"
"Is it the two of them?" She asked suddenly confusing me.
I looked up with raised eyebrow but she continued, "Lord Lucian and Lord Lucifer, they're both your mates?"
"Hey. Are you getting delusional now that you're going old?" I scoffed with amusement, "Madam what are you saying? How can a girl have two mates?"
She slammed her hand on the table, "Don't talk to me like that. We both know it's true. Your mates are Lord Lucian and Lord Lucifer! You hit a jackpot girl"
I only stared on as she elaborated her explanation as I find the information rather funny than real.
Two mates? And they're twins?
That's impossible
But what concern this woman so much?
"Why did you call me here then?" I ask slowly even though my brain is still in dilemma on whether to accept that truth or not.
"They're here for you. I mean Lord Lucian's already sent a car to pick you up" she stood up and walked to a small storeroom near the toilet, returning with a bundle. "These are some clothes. Get dressed and be ready to go serve him at home"
My heart sank.
"Why are you giving me up?" My voice cracked. "My family and friends left me here. Even though you're harsh, you're still the only guardian I have, why are you giving me up too?" I wanted to cry.
"You have to leave here one day Dorothy!" She suddenly quipped in a tone that shocked me to my bones.
Dorothy?
My bulging big eyes stared at her. Why did she suddenly call me Dorothy?
Back when I first arrived, it was in this very office she give me the blindfold and said, "You're no longer Dorothy McAllen again. Choose a name and embrace the life that we live here as whores!"
I had refused to accept her judgement and thew the blindfold away, "No, Hag! I will never become lowlife prostitute. I'm going to be a doctor!!"
She'd suddenly raised her head and dashed me a slap, "No dreams here, Dorothy. Girls like us has been striped of the right to dream. I paid for you, so do your job and toss that name under your feet!"
"My father will destroy you!" I had swore. "My lawyer sister will bring you down!"
She laughed. Tossed a document and a silver knife in front of me. "Here's the document backing Jezebel parlour as a legal sex parlour. Alpha Theophilus signed it with his blood. As long as this pack is concerned, no one— not even a Luna or powerful Deltas like Lord Lucian and Lucifer can shut it down! So kill me and tear this pact if your family comes for you in the next seven days"
They never did!
Instead, Mum said I was a scandal to her. Dad said I won't be useful if I still want to be a doctor. My sister just followed the clout and ignored me.
Now sitting before her again, I stared at her like she was a stranger.
"Why…. Why did you call me Dorothy?"
She smirked, "Isn't that your name? Dorothy McAllen?"
"No!!!" I shrieked and slammed my hand on the table with the energy I have left, "I refused to go back being Dorothy!!! Here is my home and here I will stay!"
"Things don't always go our way Dorothy, You see…."
A knock on the door interrupted her and then the clerk comes in, "Madam, you have a guest"
She stood up, "Oh. She must be here"
She? I frowned for a while but nevertheless stood up to leave but then she fired at me, "Where are you going?"
"Don't you have a guest?"
"You can sit down. She's here for you" saying this, she exited the door to usher in whoever it was.
I waited until she comes back with another woman — no a lady. Dressed so distinguished and formal. She doesn't look like the kind of a person that could come to a place like this and more importantly, she looked familiar.
I sat in silence, expecting Madam Diana to speak, but the woman just picked up her bag of popcorn. "You two will have a lot to talk about, I'll leave you to it now"
"Hey, Madam….." I wanted to call but she didn't allow me to say more before exiting the door leaving me to face the stranger.
I felt so nervous and tense, so much that I fidgeted my fingers nervously but then, the lady's voice suddenly rang, "You still do that when you're nervous?"
I look up at her, startled, "How did you know?" I wanted to believe my sight that this is a person I know in the past but then, I can't believe it because the person I know in the past that looks like this is not someone that can come to a place as low as this.
She chuckled darkly and took her seat beside me, "How are you faring Dorothy? Did you eat well?"
My heart dropped.
That name again!
I shot to my feet. "Who are you?"
She just smiled, calm and carefree,
"What? Why did you look so startled? Don't tell me you don't remember me?"
"I say who are you!!!?" I screamed again as I don't want to believe that this her. This can't be. This is not her so I have to ask.
"Oh I'm disappointed" Then she raised her sleeves and showed me that familiar tattoo that I also had under my armpit.
"No…." I staggered back trying to control my sanity.
"Come to me. I won't bite" she offered again but I stepped back again until my back touched the walls.
"Dorothy?" She called again and try closing the distance but I pushed her back violently.
"No!!!"
Her eyes flared up with shock, "How could you…."
"Why are you here now?" I screamed pouring my rage into every syllable.
"Barrister Doris McAllen, Why are you at this lowly place that only girls who dare to dream are crushed?"
Doris McAllen, My blood sister stood frozen as she heard my description of the parlor, "Dorothy…. You don't have to…"
"Was I lying?" I adjusted my dress, "I dared. But you pushed me here to kill that dream don't you?"
Doris's mouth was opened in surprise and astonishment, "Em… Dori you don't have to…"
"Marilyn Paltan!" I interrupt her potential plead, "I'm Marilyn Paltan a prostitute of Daughters of Jezebel!" I snapped.
"So Barrister Doris, if you will excuse me, I have customers waiting" I turned to leave.
"Lord Lucian and Lord Lucifer!" She announced and I stopped but didn't turn, "They're your mates right?"
"The Madam must have called you?" I smirked, "So you think of coming here now that I've found my mates?"
"Not like that Dori…. I mean Marilyn" She
Was crying now tears as she fondled with her bag, "This is the evidence of our bethrothal. Dori you can have Lucifer but not Lucian please"
I turned around now with full confidence and shock, "You're bethroded to Lord Lucian?"
"Your madam called yesterday. She told us everything. So I thought I would…" She paused before grabbing my hand again, "Please, reject him. Reject Lucian and go with Lucifer and I promise I'll take you out of here and help you fulfill your dreams"
Her words made me feel like vomiting because it annoys me to the core. Now that the issue was about a man, she's ready to help me? After five years?
I smiled softly with sadness, "Barrister Doris, you're not in any position to order me what to do with my life"
I turned around to leave again but remembered something. So I turned around. "Tell your parents that I have disowned them as my parents since five years ago. You're their money making and connection earning machine. Continue being that and leave me, that was a stain to live here with my real family!"
Saying that I turned to leave for real now. But this time, she grabbed my hair from behind. "You don't want to listen when I'm being nice. Guess you have to learn the hard way"
I shirked in pain because I was still weak but all of a sudden, the door was kicked open by some people I don't see but I guess it must be the Madam and the next thing I heard before passing out again was…
"Doris!!!