The Sweet Nothings || ✓

'NEXT TIME YOU TRY TO PLAY THE HERO'

"Please. Please don't. Please for god's sake have mercy."

"Please. PLEASE."

"No. No. No. NO."

"Stop. Please just stop. I said STOP!"

"Please. Don't do this Lukas. Please."

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

"PLEASE STOP!"

"STOP. PLEASE. PLEASE."

"I beg you."

"Please."

"Please."

"Pleas-"

And that is where Maia stopped all together. Lana could see her still. Lying right there, limbs still tied up. While Lukas loomed over her body, doing the unforgivable. Lana was shaking.

She had already puked out blood. Cried rivers. And screamed and screamed and screamed. All in vain. There was no going back.

Lana knew just what Hazel had been talking about when she had said that the damage was done. She could see it now.

Maia was right there. Naked. Eyes wide open. But blank. No emotions at all. Her hair spread around her head. Her hands limp in the binding of the ropes. She was there. And she was not there at all.

"You see Andrea." Lukas paused, getting up from above Maia. "We do all sorts of things to break people." He came towards the camera, all in naked glory. "I have known Dean since I was a kid. And he knows all your pressure points. He knows just where to hit you." He chuckled. "Well, Maia is beyond repair now. If you know what I mean." He smiled, and Lana choked back another sob.

Suddenly, Maia spoke up from behind him.

"Andrea." She whispered. "Andrea."
Lana cried harder.

"Why did you do this? Why didn't you just say yes? Why didn't you?" She paused as a tear out of her blank open eyes. "I thought you loved me. I thought you loved me more than the world. Did you? Did you lie all about that too?" She asked Lana through the screen.

'I'm sorry Maia. I am so sorry.' Lana said to the TV, knowing it won't reach her.

And the TV went off suddenly.

"So, from your face again, I suppose you have decided. And I guess it's a yes?" The voice coming from the speakers spoke.

"How were you and my mother related?" Lana asked instead. Jessica Oberain had left no explanations. And if this is how it was ending, Lana wanted to know everything.

"She was like my daughter till she went off and married that filthy Arthur Oberain. Very close to me if I tell you. It was me who planted the whole thing in her head. How do you think Arthur got to know that you were his daughter? Of course, I told Jessica. Who told Arthur." He said.

"Who do you think told Arthur to plan that stupid accident? It was carefully planned. Only enough to cause a slightly severe condition, not enough to kill. I told that to Jessica and she told it to him. You thought she had left Arthur because she had wanted to. Yes. But she had come to me instead. I had known about Henry Wilson from a very long time." He paused.

"And did you never wonder who left that newspaper at your doorstep? The one informing about Damien's return. You were foolish enough to think that those fishermen saved him alone. I had to organise a big team to facilitate my plan into the look of mere coincidences." He laughed.