Chapter 2:
I hoped she wouldn’t remember. I didn’t mind waking up very early before she did to clear the chores. I couldn’t imagine being beaten in my current state… I might pass out. Fuck. She hated not being responded to.
“Please, just this time,” I pleaded to the Moon Goddess, hoping she would hear me. “As early as possible, I’ll go to her room, and she won’t even notice.”
Hope slowly replaced my fear as I walked toward my room.
But then, horror rushed through me when I opened the door and saw the last person I had expected. My mother.
It felt like a bag of ice had been thrown over me. I stood frozen in place, unable to move, my eyes wide as though I had seen a ghost.
How could I forget that she hated being touched by me? I irritated her.
“You good-for-nothing bastard!” she screamed, her voice louder than before as she moved away from me, as if I were covered in vomit. Her hands raised, ready to throw me against the wall, but then she stopped and walked away.
“That’s it. You’re growing wild. Until you learn, I’ll put you in timeout,” she hissed, turning and walking out of my room. “You’ll spend the night there.”
“Mother, please. I’ll do the chores right now, if you permit me,” I cried out, but she motioned to a guard, who immediately entered my room, watching me like a hawk eyeing its prey.
“Too late!” Her merciless voice rang out. “Escort her out, or won’t you be able to do so?” She gave a brief smile to the guard.
“Piece of cake, ma’am,” he replied in a gruff voice, walking closer to me.
Shit!
I had to act fast.
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“Please, mother… not the dungeon. Anything but the dungeon…” My voice trembled as I knelt, tugging at her expensive gown. She kicked me away, and the pain from my head slamming against the wall was excruciating, but I didn’t care. Anything but the dungeon.
“What are you waiting for?” she yelled at the guard in frustration. “Take her away!”
The guard sprang into action, dragging me out of my room and toward the place I dreaded the most — the dungeon.
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I drifted off to sleep not long after being thrown into the dungeon to rot throughout the night.
My stomach growled in hunger, reminding me that I hadn’t eaten all of yesterday.
I had been so engulfed in chores that eating had slipped my mind.
Nathalia made sure of that.
Despite being fast asleep, I couldn’t stop my teeth from chattering in fear as I hugged my battered body tighter.
The night was going to be a long and freezing one.
Panic shot through me as I felt a pair of tiny legs scurry across my body. It could only be one thing — rats.
The Moon Goddess knows how much I detested those creepy creatures.
