As soon as Mrs Mustapha started reciting the speech I dozed off.

I went home after the gathering and I saw my step father sitting on the couch in the living room, as soon as he saw me he stood up and I saw a scissors in his hand.

"I told you to be back home in five minutes but did you come back?" He said slowly as we walked towards me, I tried backing away as he stalked towards me.

"Where are you moving to, come closer, come to me right now!" He yelled and I quickly moved closer to him, now we are only a feet apart.
He used the scissors to cut my clothes of off me.

"Please stop, please do not do this please I am sorry, I will always listen to you."

"Because you wore this gown you think you are pretty, you are not pretty, you are a murderer, you are ugly and pathetic you are a murderer, you do not have the right to feel anything but pain and guilt."

"Please stop."

He gave me two hard slaps across my face, one on the left, the other on the right cheek and then a punch to my gut, another punch then he ended it with a slap which totally pulled me down and I fell on my side.

He knelt next to me and whispered in my ears "You are a monster Axymah, you killed your own mother, now you want to kill me too, I was insulted all Because of you, I was humiliated because of you, you are a disgrace, your mother would be so ashamed of you, you were feeling all high and mighty because of all what I got for you right, hopefully burning them all will bring you back to your senses."

He stood up abruptly and he went to the kitchen I tried to stand but I was feeling pains in my abdomen because of the hard hit to it. I saw him come out of the kitchen with a gallon and a matches.

"No!no!no!no, don't please don't!" I yelled from where I was struggling to stand, I managed to crawl to my room but what was happening prevented me from entering, my room was on fire and all the things I got was on fire too, he was burning it all.

"Please make it stop, get water, don't burn my clothes please."

"That should be the last thing on your mind right now." He said as he came down the stairs with the whip in his hand. I backed away but I lost my balance.

"Lay on your back." 

I shook my head. "Please do not whip me!" I cried out as I begged.

"You just said you will always obey me, now you are disobeying me, I said lay on your back, you do not want me to lose it, now do you?"

I laid on my back as he asked shaking and crying profusely.

"Good girl."

He started to whip my back, I thought he would stop after the 10th whip but no he didn't, he continued beating me like that, I kept yelling for him to stop and eventually started turning and tossing around as I could not hold still because of the pain, he whipped me twenty times before he was satisfied, at least I thought he was.

"I told you to stay still but you did not listen to me, now I will punish you for that, I will beat you with my bottles of vodkas."

"No please don't."

"Yeah you are right, I'll be going easy on you by doing that, I will imprint my name on your back with a shard of broken bottle from my vodka, I will break my vodka bottles till I get the perfect shard, wait right here." With that he left.

"Oh God please help me." I prayed then I remembered what Mrs Mustapha said about Mrs Amira in the gathering, Mrs Amira can help me, and she lives right next door, I will quickly go to her.

I started to hear sounds of bottles breaking, he really is going to do what he said, I should hurry and then I started to smell smoke, the whole house will soon burn to nothing.

I struggled to wobble to the door, when I got there the sounds of broken bottles stopped, I turned around and I saw my step father walk out of the kitchen with a shard of broken bottle in his hands.

"Hey stop there, where do you think you are going?" He said as he ran towards me, I quickly wobbled out of the house and ran to Mrs Amira's house.

I banged the door and she opened I pushed her aside and allowed myself in.

"My step father wants to kill me please help me."

"Go into that room directly behind the couch and stay there."

I quickly did as she said, I left the door a bit ajar so I could hear and see what is happening outside, immediately my step dad barged into the house.

"Where is my daughter?"

"How am I to know?! She is your daughter is she not?! So you are to know where she is.
He lifted her off her feet by her throat.

"If you do not tell me where my daughter is right now, I will kill you and your husband will move on and get married to another slut that will bear him children and he will forget you ever existed you will watch them from what ever part of hell you will be in."

"No please."

"If you do not want that you better start telling me where my daughter is, will you tell me?" He asked and she nodded. He dropped her hardly on the floor.

"She is in the room behind the couch." She said as she tried to catch her breath.
He turned his head towards the room and locked eyes with me.

"There you are, I have got you now." He said as he walked towards the room.

I tried to lock the room door but it does not have a lock or a key that I can use to lock it, why would Mrs Amira send me into a room that is without a lock.

I quickly scrambled to the bed corner of the room and made myself as small as possible.

"You thought you could hide from me, you thought Mrs Amira will save you, but you are wrong just as you were wrong about Mrs Juliet, no one will help you, everyone hate you because you are a heartless monster."

"You see this shard of glass, I will imprint my name on your skin with it and no one will say a damn about it."

At this point I was so terrified I could not even say a single word.

"You are worthless, you have always been worthless And you will remain worthless, I wonder why you are not dead yet?! After all I have done to you." He inched closer to me.

"You are not special, so why?! I hope you will bleed out and die, I want you to die, you are a problem, if you do not die from all my torture then I will kill you the normal way but you will get to choose how you wish to die."

"No one will come to your aid, they will make you promises and give you hope but in the end it is all a lie."

I looked behind him and I saw Mrs Amira closing the door behind Ber, she looked at me with pity and closed the door, I wanted to shout to scream but I was frozen in fear, I could not feel my muscles or limbs.

He plunged the shard of bottle into my neck, I released a ear piercing scream.

Is this the end of the road for Axymah, does her story end here keep reading to find out, I really hope you guys are enjoying this ride, if you are drop your comments and please vote.
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