Chapter 24 – Abuse (1)

Chapter 23 – Abuse (1)

*SLAP*

“YOU WITCH!” Demi felt disoriented by the heavy slap she just received. She lost her balance and tried to support herself by leaning on the door. Demi felt my vision go around which was followed by a headache.

“Father, calm down!” Victor who was following his father was petrified by what had just happened and rushed between his father and his sister. He was angry by the news they received earlier, but not angry to the point that he wants to hit her.

“Get out of the way before I do anything to you, Jonathan.” Michael said threatening his son. His face was red from anger and his eyes were threatening, as if they were ready to kill someone. Demi, who regained her balance soon stood up with the help of Nova.

The small fur ball immediately went out of hiding when Demi almost fell on the floor because of Michael’s heavy hand.

“I see that you have not only disgraced the family, you even went on and threw away your dignity! To come home at 1 in the morning, from a man’s car! Don’t tell me you’ve sold your body now!” Michael’s loud voice echoed through the large mansion.

Michael and Victor saw Yvonne coming down of a black luxury van and immediately thought that she went with a man and let him do things to her.

‘I’m want to kick him in the nuts and chop it into pieces.’ Demi, who didn’t know what was happening, was fuming in anger. Although it did not appear on her expressionless face, she wanted to cuss the old guy and kick him in the nuts until it turns into a slush of meat.

‘I can purposely hit an acupoint or shove him down the entrance steps and break his ankle.’ Demi started to think about different ways on how she can fight this guy back but soon realized that violence wasn’t really the way.

“You’re an inutile wreck, the headmaster just sent a message. Who would’ve thought you’d steal precious documents? For what!?” Demi, who still had her head low, remembered her aunt’s abusive episodes when she comes home every day.

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“You piece of shit! Can you do nothing more but suck the life out of me?! What the f*ck is this?!” Aunt said as she saw the broken vase on the floor.

“Do you know how much this is, you fucker?!” I was reprimanded for everything. Even though it was aunt’s own two daughters who did it, she just saw it as me being irresponsible and not taking care of them even though they were older than me.

“B-but a-aunt, I-I didn’t do it.” I said while sobbing and trying my hardest to speak properly.

*SLAP*

“B-b-b-b, speak properly you imbecile!” Aunt slapped me and mocked my stuttering voice.

“Dana! Get the fucking paddle!” These words shook my entire being and I finally looked up. Dana ran inside the living room and held the huge paddle towards aunt with a smirk on her face.

“Come here you twat!” Aunt dragged my malnourished body inside the punishment room and made me kneel on mung beans.

*THWACK*

“I do everything for you, buy you clothes, feed you, and make you study and what do you do!?”

“I gave you everything, a large mansion to live in, expensive clothes to wear, and make you study in the finest school and what you do is whore around sticking to men in the streets?!”

“You break my things that are worth more than you!”

*THWACK*

“You even walk around disgracing the family’s reputation!”

“And you blame my two daughters for your stupidity?”

*THWACK*

“And you blame the servants for your misdeeds?!”

“I didn’t raise you to be a useless fucking bitch!”

“I didn’t raise you to be a useless fucking bitch!”

That snapped something in Demi who tried her best not to retaliate for the sake of the “plot”, but she’s had enough.

‘I’ve went through this shit already, why the fuck do I need to stand still and be that same helpless girl from then?’ She thought to herself as she finally looked at Michael dead in the eye. This made Michael angrier and raised his hand once again to slap her.

But before his palm could make contact to her face, Demi raised her hand to grab the man’s heavy arm.

*CRACK*

A silent crack was heard from Demi’s left wrist which made Michael wince. And as if the hurt wrist was nothing to Demi, she threw Michael’s hand away from her with a deathly calm face.

“Exactly when did you raise?” She said in a cool manner. Her calmness made both Victor and Michael speechless.

“Are you disobeying me no-“

“CAN YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN FOR A MINUTE!?” Demi shouted at the top of her lungs and glared at him.

Michael would normally retaliate at a situation but this was Yvonne. The Yvonne who never raised her voice towards her father and brother, the Yvonne who would smile when she sees the both of them, the Yvonne who would cry when reprimanded by them.

“You passed me on to a nanny when mom died, neither once looked at me in the face nor regarded me as someone your own, you never once came home and greeted back whenever I would come down and rush to you, and you never, ONCE in your lifetime called me your daughter.” Demi pulled out every emotion she had wanted to pour onto her aunt and delivered it with Yvonne’s memories one by one.

“Michael J. Reeves, the man who invented the XXX phone, an entrepreneur that emphasized communication, a great businessman that prioritized listening to customers. Such a great man can’t even say a simple hello to her daughter?”

“Now tell me, Michael Johnson Reeves, how the fuck did you raise me?” Demi didn’t even let Michael answer that question and proceeded.

“Such a great man who can’t even go on a day without beating his own wife over her past relationship.” Demi pulled out a memory from my dream which she saw.

‘Why not put salt on that wounded pride of yours?’ Demi thought to herself as she added heavy remarks.

“What-“ And based from his stupefied reaction, it seemed to be the truth.

“Who can’t even keep his own partner’s safety.” Demi continued connecting the dots and spoke it as she connected the clues.

“Such nonsense-“ Michael became more infuriated but shocked at the same time. He was like a stone standing in one spot.

“Who constantly blames his daughter for his incompetence in keeping his family together!” Michael wasn’t able to speak anymore and only looked at Yvonne in horror.

“All for what? All because of a fucking green book!”

“And to top it all off, just so you can forget about your nasty treatment towards mom, you threw away every piece of furniture that reminded you of her, that’s also why you threw out all the Day lilies and even threw me who resembled her!”

“ENOUGH!” Michael grabbed Yvonne’s left shoulder painfully and gripped it tightly warning her of what she’s saying in front of the servants and Victor.

“Hit me again! Show your son and everyone what you truly are.”

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Lou's note:

Me to Michael: