The auction finally ended after Marc Jefferson ordered everyone out of the Jefferson villa. But in all honesty, the auction ended when Zed Jefferson and his subordinates escorted Maliya out of the auction room after falsely accusing her of breaking the obviously fake portrait. Everyone cleared out of the auction room and the Jefferson family villa as a whole almost immediately. They looked happy to be out of all Jefferson villa. They would have all left a long time ago if they could but the event had taken a rather forceful turn after Maliya was accused of breaking the portrait.Major General Zed Jefferson and his western military troop hijacked the events and people had to buy fake and substandard artifacts. They even forced people to buy the remnant of the broken Lisa's Smile portrait. Before leaving, Zed gave the order barring people from leaving the auction and with all his soldiers, no one dared disobey him. Even in his death, they remained frightened by what would happen if th

Maliya woke up twenty minutes after Andrew ordered her breakfast. She woke up feeling really weak. Everything looked fuzzy and she couldn't focus on anything. Andrew who had remained close to her all through the night was there to hold her hands when she woke up.The night before had been very long and gloomy for Andrew. He blamed himself for Maliya's condition. When she woke up, Andrew was stroking her hair. And because she could not see clearly, she tried to rub her eyes with the back of her hand. But she felt so much pain just trying to raise her right hand to her face. She also noticed the burn on her face from the cut Zed Jefferson had left on her face. And all of a sudden she felt a cold breeze blow all over her. The events of the night came flooding back to her memory. She remembered being accused of breaking a Lisa's Smile portrait worth over two billion dollars. Major General Zed Jefferson had agreed to let her pay two billion dollars.Her family had been invited and detain

Hmmmmph! hmmmmph!Stanley cleared his throat and waited for everyone to coordinate themselves. He was about to make a serious announcement and he wanted everyone to settle. “Yesterday you all saw what happened in this house. The way those soldiers barged into our homes and forced us into their van. You saw how those animals insulted us, how they treated us with no respect. To worsen the situation the Jefferson family who have been long term friends, have now become enemies. Yesterday we were humiliated, I was humiliated because one of my children chose to do the wrong thing”. Stanley Coker said when everyone had finally settled.As he spoke the room was quiet as a graveyard. The only other sound apart from Stanley Coker's voice was the tick tock of the wall clock. “For years now I have emphasized the importance of family and sacrifices for the family. I have also made it clear to everyone in this family that no form of indiscipline or misbehavior will be condoned. There are rules

Andrew tried to pull Maliya to her feet but she refused to stand. Rather, she stayed on her knees and continued banging the door, crying and begging her mother to forgive her. Although he was strong enough to lift her up if he wanted, he could not bring himself to do that to Maliya. He knew this was a difficult time for her.“This must be really traumatizing for you my love”, he said to himself feeling sad for Maliya. He wished he could take her pain away and carry it like it was his. “Let's go home honey. Your mom is just very upset about the incident, that's all. She will get over it soon my love and everything will be okay again my love”, He continued. He tried to lift her up again. This time she did not struggle. She let him help her to her feet. When she was standing, Andrew pulled her to himself and embraced her. She let him hold her for some minutes while she continued to sob. “I have to talk to Grandfather honey. He is the only one that can make this right. Honey, can we g

The next morning, when Maliya woke up, she was in so much pain. The night before, she could not feel herself. For the past ten years, she had been living in so much ridicule, outright hate and humiliation from her family members. This was all because of the injuries she sustained in the process of trying to save the life of that boy ten years ago which disfigured her face and made her ugly. Everyone in her family blamed her for it. She also blamed herself.“Grandfather, I'm very sorry. Please don't get mad at me. Someone was in there. I only wanted to help him open the door grandfather. I did not know I was going to get caught in the fire too…Please forgive me mom… dad…”, fifteen years old Maliya pleaded with her family. “No one sent you Maliya. Why can't you stay where you are meant to be? Why can't you ever do the right thing… Look what you've done to yourself now… You've ruined your life… Just look at yourself now”, everyone in her family was saying. From that day, her life took