There was a red palm mark on Rosaria's face. Her chest was rising and falling quickly. Immediately, she became nervous. She had never been able to understand his mind.
Luke seemed to feel pitiful for her. He stroked her face in a very gentle and tender manner. It seemed that he was talking to her or it seemed not, "The first time I asked 'what do you think of him?' you answered like this too."
Rosaria sat still, daring not to move. He had always been like this, some times he would give her a hard slap, but sometimes she was very dear to him.
"Look. I've bought you a lot of new clothes again today. Try them on and see if you like them." He said in a soft voice.
Rosaria did as he told and went into the room. She was from a poor family. Luke paid her college fees and financed her to study overseas.
In addition, Luke also had her receive plastic surgeries on her eyes, mouth, and nose.
When she was talking to him, he would say she shouldn't talk or smile this way. He gave her a videotape and told her to learn from it, including the way of talking, smiling and behaving.
He was making her imitate another woman, but he never slept with her.
But he doted on her too, bringing her what was considered the best and the most beautiful, as if she was the person that he loved most in the world.
For Luke, he indeed loved Zora very much, but he also felt guilty about her.
Back then when Kingsley and Zora left the Wright family and started to live a hard life, Luke went to see Zora and promised her a better life as long as she would break up with Kingsley.
Zora was so insistent that she refused him.
Luke got furious. Since Luke could do nothing about Zora, he then took advantage of Kingsley's parents. Kingsley was suppressed at that time and had to work at the construction site, carrying bricks and cement.
Luke had a reporter take a lot of pictures of Kingsley and show them to Kingsley's parents. Kingsley was born with the silver spoon, but then in the picture, he looked like a migrant worker, who was wearing a vest, full of mud and dirt, and looked very wretched.
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