Tormenting Her Innocence novel Chapter 3

"Mr. Karlson, a man named Paul Haiden is here. He is claiming that he is this girl's uncle,"

Hearing Leo's words, Damien stretched his head to look at that little girl, Kaya, but his brows arched in confusion, by witnessing her lowered head.

"Do you know this man named Paul Haiden, Kaya? He asked her, gently and in return just found her nodding her head.

"Is he your uncle, dear?" Damien questioned again.

Kaya squeezed her eyes shut before wagging her head again in her answer.

Turning his head around, Damien looked at Leo and uttered curtly.

"Take him inside,"

Leo nodded and then walked out. Kaya's heart was throbbing inside her chest in fear. She didn't want to meet that man. He was inhuman and it was him from whom she was running away that day, but she knew better than to tell everyone the truth. The terror that man, Paul Haiden, had stored inside her heart was soul shivering. She couldn't even dare to tell him the truth to anyone about how much pain he had given her, both mentally and physically.

"Kaya……"

She clenched the bedsheet beneath her as soon as she heard that voice of that pathetic man which used to haunt her even in her closed eyes. She didn't take her head upward to look at that nasty human's face.

"Kaya, are you alright, my child? You don't know how much worried I was for you,"

Damien and Zia saw that man, who looked in the middle of his 40's, sitting beside her. He cupped her face, causing Kaya to dig her nails in the sheets. Her skin crawled in disgust at his touch. Her soul clenched in pain and fear.

"Why did you leave home that day? I have been looking for you everywhere since that day," Kaya neither answered, nor looked at him.

"We are sorry, Mr Haiden," Zia said. That man, Paul, darted his watery eyes at her.

"Kaya is in this state just because of me and I am really very sorry about it. I am genuinely guilty and sorry," Zia joined her hands in front of Paul. Her guilt was consuming her alive from inside. Her eyes watered.

"My wife is right, Mr Haiden. We are genuinely sorry for Kaya's state," Damien added. Paul sighed before focusing his eyes back at Kaya's bowed head.

"My Kaya is just like this from her childhood. She always thinks about others before herself," Paul uttered while circling his thumb against her cheek. Kaya shivered in horror.

"But where are her parents?" Damien asked. Paul turned his head towards him.

"Her parents died in a car crash when she was just 11. Probably this must be the reason, she turned so desperate to save your wife's life that she didn't care about herself," Paul trailed his gaze back at Kaya whose tears were silently rolling down from her eyes.

"She has no one in this world except me. I'm her father's, Ken Haiden's elder brother,"

The tears in Kaya's eyes turned aggressive, but that helpless girl couldn't say anything, not because she had lost her ability to speak but because she was terrified to speak against that man.

With each passing moment, Damien's and Zia's hearts were getting filled with more and more pity and sympathy for Kaya.

"How is her health now? Would she ever be able to talk?" Paul asked. Damien breathed out before answering.

"The doctors are going to try their best and we have full faith that Kaya will be able to talk soon,"

Kaya took her watery eyes upward and gazed at Damien. His words flickered a hope inside her. That man, Damien, radiated a beautiful warmth to her, like the tenderness of a guardian. Even his wife, Zia, was making her feel those amiable emotions which she had always wanted to feel from the day she had lost her parents.

"What is going to be the cost of her treatment? I mean….." Paul hesitated. Kaya was fast enough to understand what cunningness he was trying to do there.

"You don't have to worry about her treatment. I will cover all the expenses of her treatment, and me and my wife would be grateful if you let us take care of her well-being from now on, Mr Haiden," Damien said, glancing at his wife. His wife nodded at him in agreement.

"I will be more than grateful to you both for this because I ……" Paul lowered his head.

"I could barely manage to pay for her basic livelihood. I know I shouldn't say this but your help will be more than appreciated,"

"Don't worry, Mr Haiden. From now on, Kaya is a part of Karlson's family, so we will do our best to cherish her in every possible way," Zia stated, while sending a warm smile to Kaya. Kaya's heart ached, at her words but she couldn't say anything to them.

She was gazing at Zia when Paul blocked her vision by standing in front of her.

"Hope my Kaya is going to get her voice back soon,"

Her existence quivered, hearing Paul uttering those words and especially the way he was gazing at her. She again just downcast her eyes and closed them, but there stood Damien who was keenly watching her every reaction.

After a week, Kaya got discharged from the hospital. Paul told that he was going to take her back to their home and Zia and Damien knew they had no say in it.