Marcel Davila was the daughter of Marcelo Davila, an important marquis of the Galatea Empire. When her mother passed away when she was only 5 years old, the young girl was left in the care of her Nana, as her father was busy with work.

Her father, being an influential man in the Galatea Empire, spent most of his time conducting business outside the home, which meant he had little time to spend with Marcel.

Two months after Marcel's mother died, the marquis returned home with a woman named Susana, who had a daughter the same age as Marcel. This girl was named Elena and was very obedient and diligent in front of the marquis.

Due to his many obligations, Marcel’s father delegated the household duties to his new wife, who happily took control over the affairs of the marquisate.

Once her stepmother took complete control of the mansion, the little girl began to face problems even with her meals. One of her issues was that her stepmother forced her to give up her bedroom for her daughter Elena, as Susana claimed that they were sisters and deserved to share their things. Out of kindness for sharing her room, Marcel was assigned another very ugly one, which was only cleaned by her Nana. The Nana also bathed and dressed her, not at Susana's request; rather, when the late marquise died, the Nana willingly offered to serve Marcel. Additionally, Susana forbade the other servants from attending to Marcel, meaning they ignored the little girl.

The best dresses, shoes, and toys were taken by Susana for her daughter Elena, who, along with her mother, often made fun of Marcel, telling her that she was a motherless bastard whom her father didn’t love. The poor Marcel could only cry and was never able to speak to her father about the abuses she suffered.

Marcel dressed in the oldest and ugliest clothing that Susana and her daughter provided, and often had no shoes to wear around the house, as those given to her were already in poor condition. Her wicked stepmother, when attending social gatherings, only took Elena, and they both shone like refined noblewomen.

Although the marquis paid for the best teachers for both girls, Marcel was only taught manners to ensure she wouldn’t embarrass Susana in front of the marquis. In contrast, despite being less intelligent, Susana’s daughter received an education from the best teachers available at that time.

Susana paid the teachers extra not to give lessons to Marcel, as she wanted her daughter to inherit the marquis’s fortune in the future. Those who refused to accept such bribes were threatened by Susana, compelling them to comply with her orders.

The Nana, however, did not stand idly by and secretly taught Marcel to read and write very well, so she did not need to seek out another teacher for those skills.

The Nana was her only support when the marquis was away, as when Susana ordered that Marcel be given leftover food, the Nana would secretly bring her fruits and the occasional dessert and hide them well beneath the bed on a floorboard.

When the marquis returned, Susana pretended to be the best of mothers, and together they shared meals at the table like a happy family.

But when the man left again to conduct business outside the home, things returned to normal, and Marcel's life resumed as before.

Every birthday, the marquis would give his daughter an expensive gift, which ultimately ended up in Elena's hands or, in some cases, broken.

Marcel was harshly punished by her stepmother Susana even for doing nothing, as the woman and her daughter took genuine delight in seeing the girl cry and feel miserable.

Little by little, the young woman lost the respect of the mansion's servants, who now humiliated her with many harsh words. Although Marcel was the legitimate daughter of the marquis, and Elena was not, things were reversed there thanks to Susana. That wicked woman only favored her daughter Elena, and a servant in the mansion lived better than Marcel.

When the young woman turned eighteen, the marquis wanted to throw her a party where she would also debut in high society.

At the marquis's order, the organization of the party was entrusted to his stepmother Susana, who reluctantly accepted the task.

She had everything planned to ensnare Marcel in a trap that would bring her the utmost humiliation.

The day of the party arrived, and Marcel was prepared by her nanny, who had chosen a beautiful violet dress for her, accompanied by fine accessories, all gifts from the marquis, her father. Although he did not have the time to be at home, he loved Marcel for being the daughter of his only love.

When the time for the party came, Marcel, being the guest of honor, arrived last with her father at the hall, which was taking place in the capital of that empire. Many nobles attended the event, and they were all dazzled by the beauty of the marquis's daughter, whom they had never seen before.

Marcel danced a few pieces with her father, and after that, she danced additional pieces with the young bachelors at the party, as was customary during a high society debut.

From a distance, her stepmother Susana and Elena watched with envy and malice-filled eyes as the young woman enjoyed herself, waiting for the precise moment for her to fall into their trap, which involved drugging her with a strong aphrodisiac that would render her unconscious. Susana had paid a hefty sum to a servant to discreetly take her to the resting room, where he could do as he pleased, and later, when everything came to light, claim that she had offered herself while drunk and he had not refused. With Marcel no longer pure, Susana would help her marry some wealthy old man of the empire, ensuring that her daughter would be the only noble lady in the family.

The plan commenced when the marquis, father of the young woman, proposed a toast in honor of her coming of age. At that moment, a waiter paid off by Susana brought her the glass of drink mixed with the aphrodisiac, which would take effect about an hour later.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly until the nanny noticed a change in the young woman's demeanor, one that suggested she was in poor condition.

Immediately, she realized that something bad was about to unfold, as the girl had barely taken a single glass of wine, which was not very strong since the marquis did not want her to get drunk at the party.

Discreetly, she took the young woman out of the celebration and, with the help of the coachman, made her way to the nearest inn.

The nanny left the young woman in the inn's room and went downstairs to bid farewell to the coachman. In doing so, she sent a message to the marquis stating that the girl would be staying with her at an inn in the capital, as she was feeling unwell.

When the marquis received the nanny's message, he thought nothing of it, trusting her completely, knowing that his daughter was safe with her.

♦️ At the inn

After bidding farewell to the coachman, the nanny returned to the room, only to find it empty; her young Marcel was nowhere to be found.

Desperate, she rushed out to search for Marcel and sought help from the innkeepers, who assisted her in searching the surrounding area without any success.

While the worried nanny looked for the young woman, Marcel, after a moment of clarity, realized she was in a strange room and immediately panicked, fearing the worst. In those days, it was common for young women to be kidnapped and assaulted by their abductors.

"To save herself," she left there and went toward what she believed was the exit, but in reality, she entered a dark room in front of hers, and upon doing so, her consciousness blurred completely once again. The aphrodisiac was once more having its effect on her, causing her body to heat up and igniting a strong desire to make love.

Her body took on a life of its own and, as it did, she went on top of a stranger, who had a delicious and enveloping smell of pine and wood, and without hesitation she desperately kissed the stranger, and while she kissed him, she vaguely heard a purr like a kitten coming from the man's lips, but as she was so bad with her heat, she thinks it was a hallucination of her mind.

The young woman with that unknown cat lover, spent two days making love.

Two days later, everything in her mind was confused and her head and body ached as if a stampede of horses had fallen on her, and her throat hurt like when she was about to get a terrible flu.

The pain in her private part is what worries her the most, and she knows that something happened here.

When she sees the bare back of her companion, she sees it perfect yes, but full of all kinds of nail marks, and because of the perfection of the other person's body, she thinks that that person is a sexual partner, and that is why since she has no money with her, she pays him with some of her jewels, which were scattered on the floor just like her clothes.

She quickly gives a quick tour of the room, and in it apart from the disaster, she does not see that there was a cat or signs that there was one there, which makes her doubt herself a little, since not only that night she heard the sound of a cat, but for two whole nights she heard them, or imagined them. She at that moment had nothing clear.

Without thinking more about the possibility that there was a feline there, or not, she slowly got out of bed without even making a slight sound, since the least she wanted to do was see who she spent the two craziest nights of her life with.

After being on the cold floor, and receiving a discharge of pain in her body, she carefully picked up her things and put on what was left of her clothes and left the room in a hurry, like when someone runs for their life, but before she left the jewel as payment.

When she arrived in the lower part of the inn, she found a commotion of 4 people who seemed very worried, and these when they saw her, were amazed, since she was a walking disaster.

The nanny when she sees her arrive gives her a hug, because she has been two days without seeing her and seeing her at that moment, brings peace to her soul.

The owners of that inn do not have the courage to reveal anything about the lives of the guests who stay in that inn, since doing so is a crime that is paid with several years in prison, and if the family is very influential, it is even paid with death, which means, that those who saw her, have to remain silent, and thus avoid dying, and even less will they talk about a case like that, where a young woman disappears as if nothing, and then arrives from inside the inn, in such finery, talking about the matter is going to ruin or die, and neither one nor the other is a good option.

The Nanny did not say a word, since the young woman was a mess, and without hesitation, she took her to the room and there she helped her bathe.

The Nanny with a little money bought clothes for the young woman and cloaks for both, and a little makeup to cover her marks on her body, it seems that someone took advantage of her girl, and although she does not say it with words, she in her heart is very sad about that, because she cannot imagine what could have happened to the young woman in the hands of some lecherous ruffian.

When everything was ready, she went with the girl to the mansion in a rented carriage, but she did it discreetly so that no one would see her leave there.

Upon arriving at the mansion, the young woman's stepmother and her daughter were at the door, and both had a bad face, since the rape plan had totally failed.

When they saw the young woman arrive, they wanted to make trouble, but the marquis also came out to receive his daughter, and that made them silence.

"Daughter, it's good that you're home now, now that you're here, come with me to my office," he says and in the company of the Nanny they go to his father's office.

Upon arriving, her father gave her some property titles in the name of her deceased mother, and gave her a key to a chest, which contained many gold coins and jewels of great value.

"This is the dowry that your mother brought when she married me, and before she died she asked me to give it to you when you are of age, because that would be your dowry when you get married," he says seriously, since talking about the subject is something that is not to his liking.

The young woman could only say "thank you father" and after that she left, because her body hurt like never before, and it was even hard to breathe.

From that day on, things for Marcel began to go from bad to worse, since her stepmother, upon learning that there was a great fortune in her hands, coveted it for herself and her daughter.

In one and a thousand ways, Susana and Elena ruined her life, to the point of seeking her death with poisoned food, and thanks to her Nanny, their plans failed.

What was the death knell was when after three months of what happened at the inn on the day of the party, Marcel discovered after fainting that she was three months pregnant, and the situation for her worsened, since so that people would not realize, Susana convinced the marquis under a thousand tricks, to marry Marcel with an old baron named Roman Casio, he was also Susana's lover for years, and together with her and her daughter they planned everything.

As expected, the wedding took place before the young woman's pregnancy was noticed and that was 15 days after her condition was discovered, and her dowry would be given to whoever would be her husband.

No matter how much Marcel cried and begged for mercy, no one paid attention to her and she ended up married to the baron Roman Casio, and that man, from the wedding night on, forced her to be with him, and as she refused to be intimate with him, said man beat her and called her a whore for carrying a child of who knows who.

In a carelessness of Susana, Marcel discovered that her husband and her stepmother were lovers for years, and because of the repulsion that this caused her, it became evident, and as a result, her husband gave her a beating that left her unconscious for several days.

In one of those many beatings, she lost the baby with only 6 months of gestation, and her body after that loss was so weak, that after two months she stopped breathing, since the lack of blood, added to the lack of medical attention, led her to that state.

Her Nanny and her father upon learning what happened with her husband, sought revenge, and as a result, they ended up dead by the hands of the trio of misfortune, and Susana and her daughter enjoyed the goods of the Davila family, and they did it in the company of Susana's lover.

After Marcel died, her soul was trapped in a kind of floating room for a long time, which was only lit by the moonlight.

The scenes of the loss of her baby were repeated over and over in her mind, and in her mind she also saw the death of her loved ones, the only two people she considered her family.

After dying, from the same place she could see through a kind of transparent screen when her father and her nanny died at the hands of Susana and her accomplices.

After seeing that so terrifying, she went to a corner of the room to cry, where she has been ever since.

What she didn't see was: that after her death, the Azulea empire declared war on Galatea, and the man in charge of their army wiped out almost everyone there, because he arrived saying that they had killed someone important to him.

After the war, the Galatea empire fell into the hands of Azulea, and although they were good rulers, they had the people terrified, because to obtain power, much innocent blood was shed.

After the empire stabilized, the general of the army died in a strange way, and in his place, the second in command remained, an intelligent man and just as strong as his former general.

**

The young woman with her hands on her belly cried for the death of her unborn baby, whom she did not get to know because of another.

From so much crying, her voice was already extinguished, and her tears had dried from her eyes and even so, seeing such a scene was something regrettable.

"My baby and my family!" she shouted voicelessly over and over again, with tears already absent while touching her flat belly.

"Do you want to avenge yours?" says a strong and powerful voice and the young woman still does not stop crying.

"Your family and your son will be fine, stop crying," that person shouts at her to see if she would stop crying, and that works because she pays attention to find out where that voice comes from and when she doesn't see where it comes from she shouts scared:

"Who is there?" she asked scared.

The place lit up a little, and then a man with a beautiful appearance appears in front of her and he was wearing a white robe.

"Do not be afraid, I am the guardian of souls," says the guardian, while standing in front of her, who was frightened to see the man's appearance.

"Are... Are you going to take me to the afterlife?" she asks, referring to heaven, since she doubts that this strange place is the resting place of souls.

"I don't know if what you just said is a joke, but I didn't come to take you to the afterlife to rest forever, since it wasn't your time to leave the world yet, this place is called nothingness" he says sadly, since seeing such a young woman cry so lamentably is something that causes much regret.

Upon hearing that, she doesn't know what to say and only chooses to remain silent.

"Hey, you are a pure soul, I can't let you be here suffering like this, when the real bad guys are out there happily enjoying all the goods that belonged to another" he says, making a screen appear and on it Susana is seen having banquets and tea parties very happily, and her daughter and Baron Roman follow suit.

Outraged, she clenches her fists until they make a clicking sound.

"They are unhappy bastards, they deserve God to give them a punishment," she said angrily at so much injustice.

"I am here for justice to be done, since your screams have disturbed my tranquility, for some time _ he says with sincerity, because since that young woman arrived, her lamentable screams have not left him alone.

"What justice can I do from here?" she says crying again, and this time the tears wet her cheeks.

"I will give you one more opportunity so that you can take revenge on those bad people, but in return you have to promise that when the time comes to meet your baby's father you will not reject him" he says with a serious face.

After hearing that, the young woman felt a chill run down her spine and she complained thinking for a moment.

"Now that I think about it, I don't know who my son's father is, he must be a pervert who takes advantage of innocent young girls like me" she says and the guardian, who had heard her thoughts, began to laugh.

"Girl, see if the poor man took advantage of you _ he says showing the screen again, where only her face is clearly seen and she sees the moment when she threw herself on top of the man to kiss him like a hussy.

"Is that me?" she asks herself and the guardian laughs again.

"Of course, who else but you?" he says laughing, which made the young woman fill with shame, and she was redder than a real tomato.

"We... Well, let's assume that I accept the deal, when will I go to take revenge on those bastards?" she asks with a grimace of disgust, remembering those bad people.

"Well, that's at the speed of light, I'll just make a couple of things clear to you. You can't reject your son's father. You have to be strong for what's coming, now you'll see what you do with those people, my part as guardian ends as soon as you leave this place, after that you're on your own, as long as you're alive, the Galatea empire is safe" he says, pointing at the young woman with his finger.

"I understand, tell me at least who is the father of my son?" she says worried, and it was no wonder, because for two nights she was making love with a stranger.

"Dear, I will not give you that information even under torture, we will leave that in the hands of fate, so you know, no rejecting the man" he says laughing at her and then disappearing completely from there, and she from one moment to another feels how her eyelids after a long time without sleeping begin to close.

It wasn't long before she woke up in her old room and when she did, she felt that her body hurt as if she had been beaten.

When she sat on the bed, her Nana entered through the doors with a doctor and she had red eyes, it seems that she had cried a lot.

"My little one, you gave me a good scare," says Nana crying a lot when she saw her awake.

She doesn't know what is happening and her memory is not clear at the moment, since the last thing she remembers is being in a room in the afterlife.

"My Nana, don't cry, what happened to me?" she asks with tears in her eyes because she is happy to see her nana alive.

"Oh my love, don't you remember anything?" she asked worried.

"No Nana" she says and she doesn't lie at all.

"Well, we arrived home after you were missing for 2 days and when you came out of talking with your father the marquis, you started to feel bad, and you fainted" says Nana.

Before such words, Marcel doesn't know what to think since she doesn't remember anything about that fact, and so as not to look like a fool, she better not say anything.

Everything seems to be the work of fate, it seems that the fainting is associated with her return.

She was immersed in her thoughts, when the doctor asks for permission to examine her body and she grants it.

"Well, it seems that it was just a fainting spell due to fatigue, I advise you to stay in bed for the rest of the day, and avoid any effort today, this medicine will help in case your body hurts" says the doctor passing the prescription.

When she sees that everything is in order, she says to the doctor:

"Doctor, I know I am pregnant, and I would like you to please check me to see if everything is okay" she says and the doctor without saying anything went to check and in effect, she was pregnant, because her pulse was that of a woman in a state of gestation.

"Well, it seems that everything here is fine, your vital signs are those of a pregnant woman, you have nothing to worry about, the baby, although it doesn't have any heartbeats yet, seems to be a very strong baby, since even after the fall it remains intact, because of your condition, avoid doing anything that puts your life in danger, and that of the little one, if you have nothing else to do, I leave you these indications to feed yourself well" says the doctor, writing a new prescription again, since being pregnant, she needs other types of care.

Nana was speechless, and cried silently, and does not know what to say, since the last thing she imagines is that her girl is pregnant.

When the doctor left, she still remained speechless.