The Grand Mistress

Chapter 179 - Her Nightmares

Lucy thought Simione's dilemma was over but she was very wrong. That night when she tucked the girl to sleep, Simione screamed all over for  minutes because of a terrible nightmare.

"Simione!"

"No please! No please!" The sleeping girl rolled over and over on the bed. Her voice was filled with fear and panic as if some horrible monster visited her dreams.

"Simione, it's me! Simione wakes up!" Lucy, with her strength, woke the girl and when she did, she was crying again all over.

"Lucy, help me! Help me Lucy," Simione wailed restlessly. She was dreaming about the whole ordeal of her abduction—how fears, her uncertainties, her wishes of death and hopelessness. Only when the night came and her body relaxed did she realize the trauma that was brought by what she had gone through the last few months. It was horrible, specially than she had learned and saw  so much in the prostitution house, things that she should have never learned and saw as an inexperienced woman.

"Simione…..I'm here…hush now…" Lucy had been warned about Simione's trauma. The doctor who had the girl checked earlier told her it was prone to her to have one especially with all the things she experienced. Filled by guilt of not being able to save Simione right away, Lucy could help but shed a tear in secret. Of course she can't let the girl know she too was very affected and that she was very hurt by what Simione experienced.

'Damn the Han's! I hope they never have a good life' 

Lucy cursed them. How could they be this cruel to do this to Simione? They were supposed to take care of her and yet they treated her less of a human being.

That night, neither Simione nor Lucy was able to anticipate the impact of the kidnapping, not until many days had passed and Simione became more restless. When they came back to Devon City, Lucy hired a therapist for Simione but her recovery took years, two years to be exact. Her abduction caused so much damage in her emotional and mental health and so she was thoroughly unwell and struggled to function well on her own.

To make her occupied and as  part of her therapy, Lucy made Simione her personal assistant for two years so that she could be wherever she was. During the day, Simione tails the singer wherever she goes, taking the role of her assistant in the entertainment industry and at night, the girl would do all of Lucy's school stuff. 

Lucy this time was still a graduating student, as Simione graduated ahead of her and  since it was also this time that her career as a singer started and flourished, she had gone pretty busy to keep up with her school. It was Simione then  behind the scene who made the whole thing possible.

With regard to the threat in Simione's life, being under Lucy's care,  she made sure the Han's wouldn't know she was still alive. Besides, her circle was pretty tight as she was a singer  and so she had guards everywhere. She also had Simione keep a very low key profile, disguising as a simple assistant where in fact the girl was totally overqualified for the  job. However, since Simione was still unwell and Lucy had to watch over her, she forbade her from taking any other job.

After two years, Simione recovered well. This was the time that Lucy started teaching her how to fend for herself and how to make sure nobody could recognize her, nor track her. She had someone teach Simione some basic self-defense and other stuff that would come in handy and help the girl if someone attempted to hurt her again. After that, Lucy allowed Simione to go on with her personal plans and pursue whatever she wanted in her life.

Simione was always thankful for Lucy with all the help she did for her. Gabriella too supported her and helped her in any ways she could. 

When she started getting back on track, Lucy suggested that Simione would pursue her first plan on going into El Tigre's company. She heard that the benefits and salary there were excellent and that their employees were kept very confidential and so Lucy thought it would be the perfect company for Simione. 

Besides, it had always been Simione's dream to work with El Tigre and be mentored under him and so she did pursue such a plan.  Luckily because of her good academic background, she was accepted into El Tigre's company and got promoted after a few years until she landed on being one of El Tigre's many research secretaries. 

After a few years of working under El Tigre's company, she became interested with law, especially that the department she was in was working under El Tigre's law firm-Umbresio Law Offices. So later on, she took the company's sponsorship and studied law, taking only night classes. Her life then went well, she became very independent and was able to fend for herself more than Lucy expected. Simione's salary too was very compensating and even her job was envied by many. Lucy and Gabriella could have never been more proud.

However, Simione's peaceful  life was disturb when she saw the news of a famous ballet dancer—Lyndon Tang meeting an unexplained car accident, followed by grandfather William's being accused of embezzlement. 

Of course, Simione couldn't just bear to ignore that the Tang's then specially that they  needed help and so she reconnected with them specially when she realized that no one was helping them now. Grandfather William was involved in embezzlement and so none, even his close friends wanted to help him  afraid of being implicated. It was such a serious offense accompanied by public hate and so no one should want to share with the public's hate. 

The Tang's comfortable life crumbled just in one night and all their assets were frozen and so to help them, Simione paid off for Lyndon's medical fees and spent the rest of her savings helping with grandfather Tang's case.

Later on, another news came that made Simione very angry—it was Feather and Hawk's engagement. This made Simione suspicious about what happened to the Tangs and realized their misery was because of Feather wanting to get rid of Lyndon so she can have a clean start with Hawk Monsanto. 

Enraged, Simione created the Feather Project.