I accidentally married a "CEO"

Eva was doing her best to get freed from her father's hold of her; to no avail, she was dragged back into that house without mercy. Once they were inside the house, she was pushed to sit down on the sofa. Edward was enraged; his face was fuming as he started shouting at her.     

"You listen to me! Whatever it is you're planning to do, you might as well forget about it. From now on, you will be locked up inside the house, you will not be allowed to use your phone, and you will stay put until I say so!" Edward growled at her with looks that could kill. His veins pulsing on his temple.     

Eva couldn't understand the reasoning behind her father's treatment. She decided to fight back. If he could yell at her, so could she...     

"Come on, father! You went out half of the time without a care in the world about what happened 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 words, and what she said was true. Ever since she was a child, he never paid much attention to her. If only she had been a boy, he probably would have treated her differently. But, unfortunately, she's a girl and of no use.     

"It doesn't matter what I had done in the past and what I'm doing now. What matters is, I need to take care of my debt, and you're only good for one thing, which is to be used as a form of payment. Therefore, you cannot go anywhere. Understood!" Shouted Edward while pointing the finger at Eva.     

Eva's eyes widened after hearing what her father said. She was shocked; she couldn't believe what she just heard came out of her father's mouth. Her? A form of payment? What in the world...     

"What do you mean, a form of payment? What am I, a check?" Eva is 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. So she stood up face to face with her father and was ready to bolt whenever she got a chance.     

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. But, unfortunately, her father is currently blocking the doorway, so there's no way she could make a run for it. She looked around, trying to find something she could use, anything...     

She saw a base right by the stand and thought… 'If she could somehow grab that small base and knock him out somehow….' She was about to implement her plan when Edward's phone started ringing.      

He took out his cellphone and checked who's calling him before pressing the green button to answer the call. It was Mr. Wright, the man he owed a large amount of money. The mobster who could order someone to kill him at any given moment.     

"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 was 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 a 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 was supposed to be there at 5:00 pm and already late one and half hours;     

He's worried that his past history will repeat itself 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 hours late. What kind of luck is this?' Ethan was deep in thought; he had forgotten his phone in his room and did not see Eva's text.     

[Help! Please, help me!] Eva had sent it when she was still in 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 searching for Ethan; instead, he saw Ethan's phone with a blinking light. [Sign of a text message]     

Since he doesn't know how to read yet, he picked up the phone to bring 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 in one hand trying to hand it to him.     

Ethan did not hear a word Bentong was saying. He was still in deep thought about his situation.     

"Brother Ethan, Brother!!! Didn't you hear me?!" Bentong tagged on his shirt to get his attention. At the same time, 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!"