Chapter 7: Past And Present
"A demon?" Ivy echoed, her voice eerily calm as she twirled the whip in her hand. "Indeed, a demon... but... what would that make you? Mother?"
As she said so, Ivy remembered the times when she was beaten by her so-called father.
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Whoosh!
"You disobedient child! How dare you cheat in an exam and exchange your mark sheet with Isla, causing her grades to drop?" Magnus shouted.
For little Ivy, the shout was accompanied by agonizing pain. She thought that her parents misunderstood her, so she tried to clarify.
"Father... I didn’t! I truly... didn’t... Isla is lying!"
Yet what she didn’t know was... her ’parents’ never wanted her to excel. They would never believe her because the one complaining was their real daughter.
"You still dare to talk back? Just you wait! Today, if I don’t let you lose one layer of your skin, I will change my name!" Magnus hollered as he rained the whip on Ivy.
Magnus wasn’t lying. That day, Ivy did lose a layer of her skin on her back.
It was a lesson for her.