Chapter 4: Presumptuous Confidence
"Take your hand away."
Liam originally didn't want to get medicine for Maya. It was only after his sister's repeated requests over the phone that he reluctantly tossed the medicine to her.
Even her real sister Elia, who's their mother's daughter, couldn't meet her expectations, let alone Maya, the illegitimate child, whom she completely ignored.
"Apologize to me, apologize for what happened last night."
"I told you to take your hand away." Liam raised his right hand, which she had grabbed, and looked at it disdainfully, as if he saw her as a virus to avoid.
"Why did you treat me like that last night?"
"Whoosh!" Maya's questioning was met only with his violence, as he roughly tossed her away.
Liam's shove was quite strong, and Maya couldn't keep her balance, stumbled back two steps, and fell onto the lawn. Though she fell on the soft grass, her buttocks, still sore from a previous caning, throbbed with pain, almost bringing tears to her eyes.
This was the first time she experienced such a large emotional upheaval in the year since coming to the Spencer Family, even more intense than when Aunt Hannah first hit her.
Maya's impression on outsiders is much like her mother's; lazy, seductive, driving men crazy and making women jealous. Even her slightest expression can captivate people, and so most times, she remains expressionless.
Liam looked at the girl's angry yet aggrieved expression and coldly said, "Do you want me to announce to the world that you sneaked into dad's study?"