HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 33

Jennie

I waited in the stables to see if Lisa would show up like she said she would. And true to her word, she was right there, in the middle of the stable, grooming another horse named Lady, the white horse with black patches.

I'd been careful about walking here alone, not wanting to be seen by the other staff. I didn't know what was going on in Lisa's mind, or if the kiss yesterday was impulsive or pure attraction, but when she'd given me that heated look and asked me to meet her here, I couldn't refuse her. No matter how much I tried to tell myself that I shouldn't do this, my heart wanted it badly, this connection with Lisa was undeniable.

When I closed my eyes at night, I could only see those hazel brown eyes and I recalled how intense her stares usually were and the way it lit my body on fire and when she'd kissed me yesterday, I kept replaying it in my mind, wondering if I'd imagined it.

When Lisa noticed that I had arrived, she smiled, and I loved how her brown eyes would crinkle in the corners and I couldn't stop the butterflies taking flight in my stomach. Before I had time to say anything to her, she walked over to me, grasped my hand in hers and pulled me towards her. I had no choice but to follow her.

And then...

She handed me another brush and showed me how to brush the horse. I stood there like an idiot, thinking that she wanted me here for something else.

"Good afternoon, Ms. Manoban. How nice of you to grace peasants like us with your presence. What can I do for you?" Taehyung said, while standing just outside the stables. I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or real. His clothes were matted with dirt, and I wondered if he was tending to the fields nearby.

Lisa didn't respond to him; she acted like she hadn't heard Taehyung at all.

Taehyung turned his grin towards me. "An excellent conversationalist, isn't she?"

I couldn't believe how rude Taehyung was being to her, and the fact that he was talking shit like this when Lisa was standing right next to me. I turned to Lisa, "Lisa, why don't you go outside and wait for me?"

She first glared at Taehyung, then looked at me and her expressions softened. She placed the brush on the floor and left us alone. Taehyung watched Lisa leave and smiled at me. "I would like to extend all kinds of services to you, Ms. Kim, free of charge. I don't need anything in return from beautiful women such as yourself."

"I will pretend that I didn't just hear that." I said, while turning away from him to leave when he caught my hand in a tight grip.

"Maybe you'll change your mind after you see this." He showed me his phone where he'd captured a picture of Lisa and I in the stables yesterday. The shot was zoomed in and it showed my hands buried in Lisa's hair while her hands were holding me to her, and our lips locked in a scandalous kiss.

"You disgusting son of a..." I screeched.

"What!? You're going to act like you're too good for me now!?" His hold on me only tightened. "You think cozying up with the retard is going to make you the mistress of the mansion!?" He laughed, "Nannies came to this house and left before you, and the younger ones all have tried doing what you're doing, and that is seducing that idiot. Do you know what happened to them!?"

Before I could answer, he went on, with his face twisted in a sneer, "They all died strangely. Some of them jumped off the roof, others disappeared without a trace, fed to hungry dogs, drowned and the list of atrocities does not end there. Nichkhun Manoban has a hobby for killing with creativity. I bet he would love to kill you too."

He brought his lips close to my ear, and I could feel his disgusting breath fanning over my shoulder. "If you do what I say and please me, I'll delete this photo from my phone."

I tried to push him away. "Let go of my hand!"

It was broad daylight and there no was no one around. I was having all these horrible thoughts about how Taehyung was going to do something bad when suddenly, by some miracle, his grip loosened over me, and I looked up to see what had caused it.

Lisa stood there, with her fingers clenched around a shovel, the back of which was now matted with fresh blood.

Taehyung was on the ground; with a gash that opened up in his head and bright red liquid was gushing out from the wound.

"Oh no. Oh no. Oh no!" I chanted as I looked at the man who had crumbled and was laying there.

Lisa's breathing was laboured; her eyes were shining with vengeance. Taehyung coughed and tried to move when a loud splat echoed in the silence of the stables, followed by another bone-crunching sound. Lisa had smashed the shovel at him again. A splatter of warm blood sprayed over my dress, while Taehyung's face looked like mashed up jam. The anklet in his leg blinked a blue signal and clicked open.

I was too stunned to move as I stared at the gory mess in front of me. My thoughts were all jumbled up, and I looked over at Lisa, who was now shaking and staring at Taehyung's smashed up face. The menacing look in her expression had dissolved, now she appeared to be absolutely terrified and shocked about what she'd done.

"I... I... didn't mean to..." she said in a regretful voice. She dropped the shovel and took off from the stables. I ran after her to find her crouched on the grass by the tree, heaving her breakfast out.

"Jen..." she said, with tears trickling down from her face, while she looked down at her hands, "He was trying to hurt you... I... I..." she tried to form the words, swallowed and continued, "I couldn't watch..."

I wiped her face with my dress. "We have to let your brother know about this."

"Nooooo...." Lisa said loudly, " Nichkhun, he... he would get angry and punish me. He'll give me those awful medicines... please, Jen... he killed my previous nannies and tried to blame me... we can't tell Nichkhun about this."

Lisa was getting hysterical as she clenched her hair, with tears trickling down her face. "I... I... didn't mean to..."

The way I saw it, Taehyung was a lecherous asshole and he definitely reported every single detail back to Nichkhun. Lisa had saved me from being raped by that bastard. She had rescued me and brought me back to my room when I was confined in that basement for weeks, so telling Nichkhun about this and getting Lisa into trouble, wasn't something that I wanted to do.

I cupped her face in my hand. "We won't tell anyone."