Genius Girl

Chapter 38 - 38: A request

Scars on Daniella's legs were visible as she seated on the single chair with her legs crossed.

She's at the warehouse, inside the third room filled with medical equipment. On the bed, the senator's daughter was sitting. Feet on the ground while her eyes were looking at the woman coldly sitting a few meters away from her.

Daniella rose an eyebrow, staring at the Senate's daughter.

"Lyle Villa," Daniella called out her name.

Lyle gulped hardly, looking at Daniella, she felt tense. Daniella was like a grim to her new eyes – a grim with the beauty of a goddess.

Daniella sighed since Lyle was blind when she was born, she could not see her past, though she could still read what she has in her mind from the moment she got her sight until now.

"Do you see the scars on my body,?" Daniella asked. She only had her bra on and a denim short, all of her scars from neck to her legs are all visible.

Lyle nodded, she stayed staring at Daniella, slowly her fear from her faded, unsure whether because she pitied Daniella with what she had gone through of because of her face. Her round face and eyes, they are so perfectly fit together, she could see how her irises glow under the warm light of the bulb.

"When you visit me, they had just cut- opened my back and drilled a part of my spinal cord, they took a small piece of my bone, very small but so, so – painful," Daniella laughed bitterly.

"They said it's for the experiment. Those assholes didn't even hide it. Now, imagine the pain you felt when I pulled your eyeballs out, the pain after I shoved a new one,"

Lyle, as she concentrated and remembered the pain that day, her face was paling indifferently.

"It was painful," she said with a shaking voice.

"Yes, it is. Ms. Villa, I am not going to apologize to what I did to you, I have never regretted it. Call me anything you want, you can come back for revenge but, we both know that in a battle, only one wins and we also both know who's going to win,"

Like an obedient dog, Lyle nodded.

"I am not looking revenge."

Daniella rose an eyebrow with surprise.

"Then why did you call me?"

Lyle gulped, feeling a rock in her throat, "I – I want to live and continue my life."

Daniella could hear the hope in her voice, Lyle's face was sweet and innocent, looking at her, Daniella felt as if she had just ruined an innocent girl.

"fine," Daniella said.

With a shock on her face, Lyle looked at her.

"Really?"

"Yes, but I need assurance that you won't come back or spread what you have seen here,"

Lyle hastily nodded, she would do anything to be free.

"Good," Daniella got up, she strode towards the corner where a table full of medical knives was located.

She picked up the scalpel and coldly stared at it.

"You have three options," her face was flat, eyes black and cold aura lurking around her.

"First, I can hypnotize you and make you forget what you have seen here, though I have never tried it before."

She paused and took a long sigh.

"Second, I can cut your tongue so you can't speak and of course cut your fingers so you won't be able to write and snitch me out," Daniella bitterly giggled, coldly staring at the scalpel in her hand.

"What's the third?" Lyle anxiously asked.

"Third," Daniella lowered the scalpel on the table and sat next to her on the bed.

Daniella's hand lifted and touched Lyle's face; she twirled a strand of hair around her finger as she stared deeply into her eyes.

"I have a hobby,"

"I like giving favors to people."

"What?" Lyle's lips shivered as she stared into Daniella's eyes.

"Tell me, what is it that you want?"

Lyle gulped, a lot of thought came in her mind.

But one thing she wants the most is to have a family, to be a mother.

"I, I want a baby. My husband doesn't want to have one with me since I am blind," her voice broke down, remembering the harsh words she received from her husband.

Daniella sighed, Robert told her that Lyle and her husband's marriage was just for politics, something a greedy family usually does.

"You want a baby?" she asked.

Lyle nodded, her eyes – staring at Daniella looked down.

"I want to adapt since I am barren."

Daniella bitterly twitched her lips, thinking, how could she think of bringing a child in this cruel world, a world full of greedy people who would everything for money.

"I can help you with that but, would your husband accept it?" she honestly doesn't care, but somehow her lips said those words.

"Well, he had a kid with another woman so I am planning to live with my kid somewhere far from here."

Daniella went quiet, wondering why Lyle didn't ask her to free her father.

"What about your father and your mom?"

Lyle breathed, her sight rose to look at Daniella.

"My mom tried to abort me when I was just a fetus but, I survived and the drugs she took had caused me to be blind. My father, he loves me or maybe used to love me, he arranged the wedding even though he knows how manipulative my husband is. I am blind, what can I do than to accept my fate," remembering the painful past, Lyle started crying like a baby.

And for the first time since they met, Lyle saw the bitter emotion on Daniella's face.

"What I did was unfair, my friend was right. So, tell me, Lyle, what do you want? As long as it's not my body, I would do it but, let me remind you. I don't kill, I only torture."

Lyle shook her head, "I don't want to hurt anyone, I just want a kid,"

Hearing those words, Daniella let out a thick laugh.

"Lyle, Lyle, Lyle, I can read minds. I can see how much you wanted to destroy them but, somehow, you are scared. Why Lyle? What are you hiding?" Daniella's face wrinkled since she could not see Lyle's past, she has no clue why Lyle was shaking heavily.

Lyle's lips were sealed, eyebrows waggled with fear.

Daniella lay a hand on her lap and then tapped her fingers on her tight.

"Lyle, what about I will tell you my fear and you tell me yours. People usually owe me a favor but, because of what I did now I owe you one. So tell me, Lyle,"

Daniella lifted Lyle's face, looking into her eyes. Yet all she could see was fear.

"Lyle, come on, speak, tell me what happened and I will help you."

Hearing the word help, tears ran down from each side of Lyle's eyes.

"My husband, he said he had a video of me with another man but, he was the only one I have been with."

Hearing those words, her shaky voice, for the first time, Daniella pitied her. Seeing a woman getting abused by her husband is what she hated the most.

"Maybe he was bluffing?" she asked.

Lyle sadly lowered her sight, staring back at Daniella's hand on her leg.

"I have thought of that, so I asked my parents to look into it and they confirmed it to be true, so since then, my husband Gerald has been using it to get them to do what he wants."

Daniella sighed and withdrew her hand from her lap.

"Give me two weeks. You and I will be having teas in your apartment as we watch the news about your husband. Don't worry, I won't touch his kid but his wife, your mom, and your father, I will make them suffer," as she said her promise, her hands reached for Lyle's hands, they were cold and thin, she heard from Robert that she was not eating properly, who would? She's been suffering and had just gone through a painful operation.

Her face hardened, never once she felt guilty for torturing her enemy but, the girl in front of her, was looking so innocent like a lamb.

How could life be so cruel? How can one parent do this to their kid?

Money? Reputation? Those things are so powerful that people forget that the word love exists.

She anxiously lamented, she could see the innocence on Lyle's eyes, something she wished she had seen before treating her mercilessly.

"Tell me what exactly do you want me to do with them?"

"Honestly, I just want to live peacefully, if you could help me get me a baby, I will try my best to give her a good life,"

Daniella laughed, this time it was soft and full of sincerity.

"Fine, I will get you a baby and consider this as my apology. I still owe you a favor, one day, if you need help, come and find me," Daniella got up, as she strode towards the door, she picked up the robe on the chair she was sitting on earlier.

"Wait."

Daniella stopped by her command.

"The doctor I was with before, he said something about your father."

Lyle paused, trying to remember what she had heard at that time.

"What did he say?" Daniella's voice was shaking just like her body, shock by her words.

"I don't really remember but, maybe you can ask his daughter."

Daniella gulped hard and for the first time, her skin crawled.

"He has a daughter?" her lips quivered, hands-on her side gradually clench with anger.

"Yes, but I don't know her name nor see her, haha, I mean I was blind," Lyle suddenly laughs with her words, looking to the fingers on her lap, not aware of the grouchy smile gradually curving on Daniella's lips.

Without saying her goodbye, Daniella left the third room, she walked towards her friends Scott and Robert sitting on the rusty couch – chatting to each other.

She grabbed the swiss knife she had in her short pocket, without hesitation, she twisted it open and tossed it towards her friend – it landed next to their legs.

Pitch dark face, hatred in her eyes, Daniella yelled at her friends' name.

"Scott Robert! Do you know about Dr. Lee's daughter?"

Her thunderous voice angrily roamed around the warehouse, both men rose from their chair and looked at her.

"No," they snappily replied at the same time.

Daniella's body shook, fumingly glared at her friend.

"Go and find that daughter. I want her in the warehouse by Friday or else you two will find your tongue on the grill. Do you understand?" as she yelled it aloud the two giant men hurriedly left the warehouse.

Daniella weakening body slumped on the ground, she had checked it herself, Dr. Lee doesn't have family, his record says nothing about a daughter or a wife and she couldn't hurt his flings, after all, he doesn't love those women.

She groaned, she wanted to kill him, skin him alive cut every part of his body but no, she has a better plan for him.

After gathering her energy, Daniella got up, she took her clothes and put them on. For now, she needs to forget about her revenge, since starring tomorrow, she will be a sitter - a sitter to a 13-year-old brat.