Innocent Lily

chapter one

The beautiful Maria Grey walked into her mother's room with a smug look on her face as she sat on her mother's bed, crossing her legs.

"Mom, today I'm going to start my plan on getting rid of Lily." She stated, looking at her nails.

She knew her mother wouldn't care if Lily was gone, for the simple fact that she hated Lily as much as she did. In fact, the hate might have been bigger in her heart.

"What are you going to do, Angel?" The cunning Rosalina Grey asked, watching as her daughter rose with a glint in her eyes.

Maria didn't say anything, but the ghost of a smile on her lips told Rosalina that something bad was coming Lily's way.

Later that day, Maria had one of the maids escort Lily to her room.

"Miss Maria is waiting for you, Ma'am," The maid said, bowing her head slightly. "Just go on in."

"Thank you, Sophia." Lily quietly thanked the maid. She knocked on the door and waited. Not getting a reply, she knocked again.

"Maria?" Lily peeked her head into the dark room. "Sophia said you wanted to see me?"

Walking further into the room, she stopped and a small scream left her lips when she saw Maria on the floor lying in a pool of blood and surrounded by glass.

Not wanting to waste time, she called the ambulance and their butler, Sebastian, to move her into the living room, so she was immediately taken to the hospital when they showed up.

-Lington's office-

Arthur Lington was sitting in his office when there was a knock on his door.

"Come in." He called, not looking up from his work load. "What is it, Heather?"

"Mr. Lington, Mrs. Grey called to tell you that Maria is in hospital." His ever so efficient secretary informed him with a small frown on her face.

"What?" Arthur's head snapped up. "When was this?"

"About an hour ago, Sir." Heather adjusted her glasses. "You were in a meeting."

Arthur cursed under his breath and quickly stood up. He had Heather move all his meetings to the next week and made his way to the hospital.

Arthur loved his girlfriend, Maria Grey. She was a sweet girl and very comfortable and compromising with his life and, after three years, he was thinking about settling down with her. When he reached hospital, he walked up to the informative desk.

"I'm here for Maria Grey." Arthur stated, not waiting for the man behind the desk to ask him.

"Are you friends or family to the patient?" The man asked, after typing something into the computer.

"I'm her fiance, Arthur Lington." He said, exasperated, pulling out his ID.

"Maria Grey is in room 205." the man said after inspecting the ID.

Rushing to her room, he didn't stop until he made it to the door. Looking in the window, he cringed seeing her wrapped in all those bandages.

"Are you miss Grey's fiance?" A weak voice resounded from behind Arthur.

"Yes, can you tell me what happened?"

The doctor cleared his throat and pushed up his glasses. "Miss Grey has explained to me that her and her step sister had an altercation and some punches were thrown. Unfortunately, multiple punches were directed to her stomach. That, combined with some of the glass from the push caused the loss. I'm so sorry."

"Loss? What loss?" Arthur was confused, it sounded as if Maria was just bruised and scratched up.

"Miss Grey was three months pregnant. Didn't you know?"

That was a blow for him. He hadn't known that she was pregnant. He lost his baby without even knowing. He wanted Lily's blood for doing this to him and Maria.

Walking into Maria's room, he saw tears in her lovely eyes.

"She killed our baby." She whispered fearfully. "I was going to tell you about our baby, but when I told Lily, she got mad and started hitting me. When I tried fighting her, she pushed me into my mirror. She killed our baby."

Aurther knew that Lily was a brat and hated Maria because her mother was Lily's governess and, after Lily's mother's death, her father married Rosalina. He had met Mrs Grey many times and he could see how much she loved Lily like her own. Arthur couldn't understand why Lily hated them because he'd seen them worry about her everytime she did something bad to them.

He knew how much Maria cried because Lily told her that she wasn't a Grey by blood, how her father adopted her out of pity. How she didn't belong to their society. When he first met Lily she looked so innocent, but looks can be deceiving.

Lily had done a lot of horrible things, but this time she did worst. She attacked his fiancee and killed his baby. He was going to make her pay.

Maria saw the anger on his face and decided to keep going.

She told him how much she was happy to going to be mother, but Lily hated it because she liked Aurther and she want to steal him from her.

"I think she saw our baby as a great hurdle in her way to get to you." Maria told Arthur. After a moment odf silence, she grabbed his hand. "I want revenge, but I need your help."

"I'll help in any way I can," Arthur said, kissing her hand. "Just tell me how."

"Lily loves and is proud of the money that she got after her father's death. She got 90% of property and my mother and I got the other 10%." Maria put in a fake sniffle and smiled sadly at Arthur, the fool. "You might hate this, but I need you to marry Lily and, after a while, strip her of all of her happiness and wealth."

"I don't think that's a good idea, Maria." Arthur stated, unsure. "What if-"

"Arthur, she stripped us of our baby. Of our happiness. You have to do this." Seeing his hesitation, Maria forced a few tears and clenched his hand. "Please."

After a moment of hesitation, Arthur nodded, making the worst promise of his life without a clue.
"For our lost family, I will end Lily Grey." (Thank you XxxMadderHatterxxX
for editing this chapter and making it more interesting 🙂)