When The Bad Boy Hates You

Chapter 33

"No, no," I repeated, in denial, my mind refusing to believe her ridiculous lies. My legs buckled and I fell to my knees, crashing down onto my bones painfully.

"I call her regularly," I stated forcefully, tears beginning to run down my cheeks even from the thought that Lisa's words could be true.

"That's me on the phone, I electronically alter my voice to sound like her. That is why she hasn't been coming home from college." Lisa wiped both her palms over her eyes to wipe away her tears. I dug my head into my knees, it couldn't be possible could it? 

I knew that Lisa was excelling with IT technology and I knew she would be capable of doing that. And when I speak to Ellie on the phone, she barely talked for longer than five minutes, always desperate to end the call. Now I knew why, so I wouldn't ask any questions that she didn't know the answer to.

"I pretended to be her and told her college that she dropped out. I had been forging the letters to your house of her grades," Lisa explained solemnly, her eyes were shallow, sunken into her face. She looked more like a thirty-year-old than an eighteen-year-old, aged with the horrors and the stresses from her life.

"Why would you do that?" I cried, raising my head to glare at Lisa. Guilt flickered across her features before settling on sorrow and misery.

"I thought it would be easier for your family if you just believed that she left you and lived another life. Your family had already lost your dad, I couldn't face the fact that I took away another member of your family," she agonised, running her hands through her dark front fringe. I sobbed my grief, unable to speak.

"It was an accident. I loved her, I loved Ellie so much." Lisa's featured were filled with agony at what she had done. The pain on her face made my cheeks flush with anger, she was the one who hurt her, she can't be hurting. I growled out my torment, throwing the chains bounding me onto the floor repeatedly. My vision was blurry from my rage and a was fire streaming through my veins, clenching my muscles.

"Let me out of these fucking ropes Lisa or I swear," Blake demanded viciously, but his forehead with plucked in worry and his eyes were tormented as he looked at me.

"I'm sorry I can't do that Blake," Lisa sounded honestly apologetic and anger ignited through my blood making my hands shake. Lisa's gaze flickered back to me, filling with anguish again.

"I spend thousands, I gave her a real burial and a real grave at the cemetery, her plaque is under her real identity, Lily Berlin," she gushed as if this made up for what she did. Rage overcame me, firing my muscles with anger induced adrenaline and I felt like I could kill Lisa in that moment. I raged and threw my body weight against the chains bounding me. They clanged as I flung them around, bashing them into the floor. 

Unexpectedly the chains crashed and broke loose at the end that connected my chains to the wall. Clearly the chains were placed here by Lisa or her kids and they didn't know what they were doing. Therefore, it wasn't bolted in very expertly and was unable to take the battering I just gave them. I was still hand cuffed with chains hanging from my arms but the chains no longer held me to the wall, I was free.

My tortured, furious eyes set on Lisa knowing I was now free to act on my enmity filled urges. Lisa's bloodshot eyes widened as she flinched away from of resounding rumble that flew through the air from the chains breaking, shielding the girl with her body. Lisa instantly pushed the girl away from her and into the arms of another older girl waiting in the group of kids at the back of the room.

I jumped at Lisa, with my chained hands outstretched in front of me. Suddenly Billy jumped in front of Lisa protectively, his round glasses falling off his nose as he hurled his body in front of Lisa. I understood now why Lisa never told him to leave her alone, he never had a crush on her, they both grew up in the same orphanage. It was easy to push his lanky body out of the way. I kicked his knees out from under him as he fell to the ground.