HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 49

Jennie

The knocks became incessant and Lisa continued to talk me into opening the door. The knob kept turning and her soft voice called out to me from the other side, "Jen, please open the door..."

I was scared of her. I had never thought that Lisa would try to hurt me like that.

I avoided Lisa for two days straight, and I didn't take my meals in the dining area because I didn't want to face the other members of the family. Lisa tried to talk to me when she had the chance, but whenever she was close, I felt intimidated as if she would catch me and try to choke me again so I fled in the other direction.

When I passed Nichkhun in the hallways, I noticed that he was wearing a smug expression on his face, like he expected this to happen.

Lisa and I were married, and I couldn't keep fending her off. She had every right to demand me to sleep in her bed. Those were her conjugal rights. I refused to believe that Lisa was anything like my horrible uncle. While my Uncle Jiyong had always been evil, I'd never seen that kind of depravity when I was with Lisa. She was shy, but smart and compassionate. Sometimes she didn't realise what she was doing or what certain gestures meant.

On the third night, I had enough of this cat-and-mouse game. I sat up in bed and I was going to give Lisa a chance to explain her erratic behaviour.

I opened the door slowly and found her seated outside on the floor, with her legs pulled to her chest, rocking back and forth. As soon as she saw me, she climbed to her feet; there was the clear pain in her whiskey-coloured eyes. "Jen... I'm so sorry..."

I tried not to be moved by her tears. Firmly, I said, "Let's go back to your room and talk about this."

I followed her to her room and maintained distance between us.

Lisa stood in the centre of the room, in her pyjamas. Her hair was a rumbled mess, probably as she stared at me in confusion. She didn't make a move to touch me, so I knew that I was safe.

"Did I... do something wrong?"

I closed the door. "You tried to choke me! Why did you do that, Lisa!?"

"I thought... I thought you would like that..." she wet her lips and looked at me with the most heartbroken expression.

"You were being so rough. I thought you were going to kill me." I wiped at the tears that continued to blur my vision. "I was... I'm a rape victim. I don't know if you're aware of this, but I'm not into rough sex. It's also the reason that I didn't date anyone in the past. I have a deep fear..." my heart rate sped up. "I feared that it would happen to me again and then you..." I trailed off. "You're stronger than me, and any person that I've known and I don't wish to be treated like that. Are you understanding what I'm saying, Lisa?"

She nodded, guiltily as she looked up at me, "It's just the video."

"What video!?"

She walked to the laptop sitting on the coffee table and fired it up. I watched her as she clicked on an icon on the desktop and a video popped up. The room was now filled with loud moans and masculine grunts. A well-built man was choking a woman and passing crude comments while he did it. The clip was an obvious exaggeration, and the acting was bad enough, but I knew what I was looking at. She was screaming but also moaning as he squeezed his hand around her windpipe.

Lisa shut the laptop and met my gaze, "Before the wedding..." she paused, while trying to remember the words, "Nichkhun showed me this clip... and... and... he said you'd enjoy this very much. He said that's what happens on... the wedding night."

Anger swelled my insides, and I wanted to walk into Nichkhun's room and kill him in his sleep. My face burned with embarrassment. "He lied to you. Well, there are some people who might like it, but I don't."

"I..." She said, obviously confused, "I'm so sorry, Jen."

I gave her a small smile, feeling a little relieved that she hadn't meant to do what she'd done and it was Nichkhun's plan for Lisa to scare me. Nichkhun wanted to break me. He had expected Lisa to do it, and his evil plan had almost worked.