Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
“Back? Back where?”
“The detention center.”
“No! It took me so much to get out—I’m not going back! That place is hell. It’s not for humans!”
Leia struggled violently, her obstinate carapace peeling off and revealing her fear.
She had not been in the detention center for that long, but she was tormented by her cellmates everyday—having her hair pulled, being spat in the face and slapped.
She tried to fight back, but that would only get her a worse beating—just like today, where she was given the worst beating that left her face bruised!
There was no way she would return to that nightmarish place!
“No, you must go back!” Xavier grabbed Leia’s shoulders and said somberly, “Pull yourself together! Just tell me who hit you, and I will return the favor—what are you worried about? I have your back.”
“What…”
Leia’s eyes were welling with tears as she stared at him in surprise.
“What do you mean, ‘what’?” Xavier exclaimed angrily. “Am I wrong? You’re the heiress of the Osborne family. Who do they think they are, doing you dirty like this?!”
To him, Leia was no different from his daughter. He was allowed to ‘bully’ her occasionally for her mischief, but he would never allow anyone else to even touch a strand of her hair!
Leia, in turn, gained confidence from that serious look in Xavier’s eyes and clenched her knuckles. “You’re right. I shouldn’t let myself be bullied.”
They returned to the detention center, with Xavier pulling some strings with a warden, who brought him to Leia’s cell.
“You may go in. By the way, the cameras are out—I would need around half an hour to fix it,” the warden told Xavier and Leia.
“Thanks, beautiful,” Xavier flashed his trademark smile at her, even making a heart gesture with his fingers.
“Y-You’re welcome…” The warden blushed, lowered her head, and turned to leave.
“You’re a real embarrassment everywhere you go,” Leia snorted, rolling her eyes at him.
Xavier ignored her and quietly entered the cell while Leia followed him closely.
“Who is that?!”
Leia’s five sleeping cellmates were immediately alerted when they heard the door open.
However, the lights were off, and they could only make out their silhouettes.
Leia folded her arms and sneered as she strode towards them, “Hello, cellmates. Did you sleep well?”
“Isn’t that No.29, that heiress?”
The tough woman was immediately excited, smacking her thighs as she chuckled, “Welcome back. And here I heard someone bailed you out… My shoulder just happened to be feeling sore, so come here and give me a massage.”
“You’re sore everywhere, everyday anyway. Here—let me give you some proper treatment,” Leia retorted and slapped the tough woman across the face.
“H-How dare you hit me?!” The woman was left dumbstruck by the slap and stared at Leia in disbelief while clutching her swelling cheek.
“That’s not all—I’ll kick you like you kicked me! What are you going to do about it?” Leia snapped and kicked the woman squarely in the stomach.
She stumbled but quickly snapped at the other intimates, “What are you spacing out for?! Get her!”
However, the other women were all huddled together and shuddering in fear, staring at the burly man standing behind Leia.”
“Go on if you dare,” Xavier said as he slowly lit himself a cigarette, illuminating his handsome face and quietly intimidating presence.
He was not saying much or doing anything, but that was enough to intimidate those women.
“Who the hell are you?!” The tough woman demanded, clearly hostile and uncowed despite noticing Xavier. After all, she was a mob boss before her incarceration and had taken the lives of people.
“Who, me?” Xavier took a long drag and flashed a vague smile. “I’m here to back up my kid, so you should take her beating lying down if you’re smart.”
“Your kid?!” The tough woman did not have the patience to listen—her flabby cheeks were stiffened as she balled up her fists, ready to retaliate.
However, when she finally had a good look at Xavier’s face from the glow of his cigarette, she dropped to the floor while her face paled as if she just saw a ghost. “Y-You’re Xavier Stuart?!”
“Yes,” Xavier, whose family was involved in legally-gray businesses, nodded. Moreover, the tough woman had the fortune to meet him once, with those good looks of his particularly memorable.
And she was immediately on her knees, pleading with Xavier, “I-I’m so sorry, Mr. Stuart. I didn’t know No.29 was with you. I would have definitely been giving her my best hospitality if I knew… Please, don’t hold it against me, Mr. Stuart. Forgive me…”
She did not fear being in jail, but she feared the Stuarts. She would be in for a world of pain when she got out, and her family would suffer with her.
The consequences were certainly unimaginable.
Nonetheless, Xavier simply smiled haughtily as he took a puff, though there was icy cruelty in his eyes that would leave anyone shuddering.
“You never hurt me,” he said. “Why are you apologizing to me?”
The tough woman was certainly smart enough to turn to Leia and kowtow to her. “I-I’m sorry, No. 29. I must be blind to make things so unpleasant for you… I’m so sorry! Please forgive me!”
Their other cellmates did the same, but Leia remained impassive as she said coolly, “None of you have to apologize because I’d never forgive any of you. I will, however, return the favor for everything you put me through.”
With those words, she slapped the tough woman across the face with the back of her hand. She’d return what she’d been given, in full, one painful bit after the other.
“No!!! Please, stop!!! We won’t do it ever again!” They kept begging for mercy—their desperate cries eerily resounding across the hollow detention center.
Eventually, Leia was exhausted and done with her revenge.
Turning towards Xavier, she said, “I’m done. Let’s go.”
“Alright!” Xavier snapped his fingers and gently opened the door for Leia.
The women in the cell were left watching, stunned… They would never have upset someone that important if they had known!
Having vented all her grievances, Leia stopped assaulting the women and warned them even as they shook in their boots. “I will spare your lives today, but remember-bully another innocent, and you will suffer a worse fate!’
They promptly kowtowed to Leia. “Thank you, thank you! We will always remember that!”
Having endured such a terrible experience, they were made to understand that there was always a bigger fish and that they should never be so quick to bully.
With that, Leia and Xavier left the detention center without leaving any evidence behind—as if they had never been there before.
“Hand,” Xavier suddenly told her.
“Hand?”
Leia had no idea what he intended, but she was in a good mood and generously held out her dainty hand.
His large palm wrapped around hers right then, gently caressing it as he said seriously, “You must be tired. Let me give you a massage.”