Nikki nodded her head like a puppy. To be honest, she didn't want to give her mother more money, as she knew that Laura would just show up again and ask for more.
"I'm a stranger but I can obviously see that your mother doesn't have feelings for you."
"... Hm."
She bit her lip. She could understand why. Her heart was already broken and it was impossible to fix their relationship.
"Nikki, I have an idea. Why don't you change your name?"
"Huh?"
"You and Patricia can have new identities. I'll have someone who can help you."
"No, if you are talking about Esmeralda, I don't want it."
She shook her head. Esmeralda abducted her daughter, tortured her, and she didn't want anything from her.
"Besides, I don't want to change my name. My father named me and I treasure it, I don't want to erase my identity. I'm a Stringendo."
"I see. I apologize, I didn't think about it."
"No it's fine. How about your business with Esmeralda? Did she agree?"
"She agreed. If not, I will spank her ass again."
He chuckled and crunched a slice of apple.
"Did you take revenge for me?"
It was something that she wanted to know. She understood that it was pathetic, but she was still mad about Esmeralda.
"I did... Now she will never be the same."
There was a devilish grin on his face. Calix opened a door for Esmeralda and he made sure that Esmeralda would never escape.
'She is going to be my slave.'
Now, Esmeralda had a masochistic tendency. Calix broke her till she accepted the pain and turned it into pleasure.
In fact, the whole week they spent together, Calix and Esmeralda did nothing but BDSM. As time passed, Esmeralda accepted her masochistic side. Calix changed her identity. Perhaps he was the only one who could do it.
Esmeralda lived for hundreds of years and only Calix could pull this off.
Even now, Calix was controlling the remote. He was changing the intensity of the vibration every few minutes.
'Esmeralda is probably fidgeting right now.'
He set the vibration to the max.
"Thank you. I know it sounds pathetic, but I'm happy that she was punished... By the way, I want to experience it too, please."
She averted her gaze, a bit shy and embarrassed. She never knew that she would reach the point where she would ask for something embarrassing.
Somewhere inside an office room, a woman held her moan as her hips trembled. There was a satisfied smile on her face, she learned the true meaning of pleasure. It was something that she did not have control of, where she entrusted her body to someone.
"Good job, now you have taken revenge on the bad guy that hurt you."
Calix said and Patricia was confused but nodded still.
"Sweetheart, your fruits are here."
"Yay!!"
Patricia returned the remote to Calix, she easily lost interest in the remote control.
A few minutes passed and Patricia finished her meal. She started looking around, looking for someone.
"Mommy, did grandma visit me?"
Complicated emotions could be seen in her eyes as she asked.
"... About that, your grandma visited earlier but you are sleeping so I didn't wake you up."
"Really?... She didn't cause a scene, right?"
Patricia was worried that Laura would make a ruckus. She knew her grandmother well. She used a lot of methods to demean them.
"No, your grandma left peacefully."
Nikki did not elaborate as she deemed that the child didn't have to know everything.
Patricia sighed in relief. She was afraid that Laura would bully Nikki again.
"... Mommy, I don't want to live with Grandma anymore. She always leaves me in the house alone. Sometimes she brings people in the house and they would party all night, sometimes I hear them hurting each other."
She said it with a weak and sad voice.
"What do you mean they hurt each other?"
"Sometimes I hear Grandma screaming 'harder!! Harder!! Uggghhhh, you're killing me!' Just like that."
"..."
Nikki massaged her forehead. Her temples were aching. She was oblivious to this.
"Did you see them?"
"No, grandma always locked me in my room."
"..."
Calix kept his mouth shut and listened. However, he could not believe that Laura would do something horrible like that.
"Sweetheart," Nikki hugged her daughter, holding her tears. "Everything is going to be alright. From now on, mommy will always be with you."
"Hm. I love you, Mommy."
Patricia closed her eyes and rest in her arms. Drowsy was knocking again and Patricia fell asleep.
"I love you too."
Nikki said gently.
[This novel has 72 chapters, 2 PDFS, and 10 character gifs on Pat reon.]