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Chapter 2

Delilah’s POV

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“Your training is almost complete from my end, Delilah.”, Mr. Hayes said when I defeated all his students again. “I have taught you everything that I knew. Now, you have to learn things on your own.”

“On my own?” I repeated his words in confusion.

“Dismiss.”, Mr. Hayes said to his other students, and they left, bowing their heads in front of their coach.

“Yes, on your own. There are a couple of things that our teacher teaches us a couple of things that our books teach us and but the most important lesson of life is taught by life. Now, you will have to explore and learn new things and new discoveries on your own. Until now, your world was around this well, but it’s high time that you will have to jump out of this well and look around to realize where you stand in front of all the hunters in the world.”

I nodded my head though I had no plan yet for what I would do next. When I was a kid, I learned all this for one reason, and that was because I wanted to hit the boys.

But this aim changed along with time.

Now I wanted equal treatment between boys and girls. It should be the girl’s decision whether they want to handle the house or go out for work. It should be their decision to either to marry at eighteen or not to get married at all.

And to bring that change in my clan. I would have to start that from my home.

“I was thinking of telling or say show the real me after all these years.”, I shared my plan with him.

“I had guessed that coming after Sana’s marriage.”, he said, sitting on the bed. “Now, you can leave.”

“Not before asking one more question that why did you train me? I mean, I had heard that you never trained your own daughter and why me? And never told about it to dad; why is that so?”

“I trained you for my redemption. Yes, you heard that right that I didn’t train my daughter even though she wanted to. That’s why she couldn’t protect herself when her monster husband raped her every time. In the end, she couldn’t handle the torture and ended her life, and in her suicide note, she blamed me for everything that happened to her.”, He said in his broken voice and pulled out the old folded paper which he had placed below his pillow. I walked toward him and sat on the bed beside him.

“I was living my life in hell until I found my hope of life when my eyes landed on you. Except for my daughter, you were the first girl who was interested in learning how to fight.”, He said with a smile. “At first, I thought you would soon quit, but you didn’t. I always used to have the same feeling of someone watching on me whenever I used to train, and somehow, I knew that you would come near me, considering your age because I generally train kids, if your urge to learn, everything won’t stop.”

“But you were too hard on me.”, I reminded him.

“Heated gold becomes ornaments, beaten copper becomes wires, and compressed rocks become diamonds.”

“I was not complaining, by the way.”, I told him, on which he caressed my hair.

“You should leave now. You have to reach home before you get caught.”, He said with a smile on his face. I nodded and reached near the window. The same window where I couldn’t reach from the tree to here; I stood on the window and jumped on the tree casually and then jumped from there on the ground without any pain or an ankle sprain.

I ran home to sleep and waited till the drama of my house actually began.

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After one hour!!!

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“Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!” I heard someone calling my mother’s name. I covered my ears with a pillow because of the disturbance in my sleep.

“Delilah!” Nova and Zoey shook my body so that I could wake up, but I ignored them. I knew no one could find mom because I had tied her in the store room, sticking tape on her mouth. That was necessary for the things which I was going to do next.

“Where is my hot chocolate? And coffee for my mom and dad, bitch?”, That spoiled little brat Andrian yelled.

My mom and my sisters were not anyone's personal slaves.

“Delilah, right now, only he is shouting, soon….”

“You two go inside the washroom and lock it from inside.”, I said, still hiding my ears with my pillow.

“But…”

“GO.”, I ordered, and I felt them leave. ‘Come here! Andrian, I will start my day by teaching you a lesson first.’, I thought.

“Nova, Zoey!! Nova, Zoey!! Where did you two die?” he yelled, slamming the door of our room loudly. I was sure that he would have found me sleeping on the bed peacefully. He held my legs and shook my body.

“Delilah, wake up!! And prepare breakfast and another thing. I have to go on training.”

I lazily removed my pillow from my head and looked at him till my elder sisters were there, I had never faced this situation, and I could sleep till school time. But those days were gone one.

“Let me sleep, Andrian. Ask your mother to do the work.”, I said and hid my face with the pillow again.

“No! That’s your mom and your sister's job. My mom won’t do it.”, he shouted and snatched my pillow. “I said wake up!!”

I opened my eyes and glared at him. I had never raised my hand to my sisters and wasn’t planning to do the same to him, but that didn’t mean he would disrespect his elders or me. Leave my mother, I was seven years older than me, and he was talking to me in this tone?

I grabbed his arm and pulled him near me, he tried to hit me with his hands, but I grabbed both his hands and pressed them on his back. He then started wiggling in my arms like a fish who just came out of the water.

“Mom, Dad..” he cried helplessly.

“Ssshhh!! Quite if you don’t want me to hit you.”, I said, coming dangerously closer to him.

“Mo…Aaaaaaa!!”, He cried in pain when I twisted his ear.

“I said silence; the louder you will cry, the harder I will twist your ear.” I threatened, and he quickly shut his mouth, sobbing slowly.

“Now onwards, neither my mom nor my sisters will work like a free slave in this house. If you need food or anything, then demand it from your mother, and in case she fails to do that, then you will ask politely or request Mom, Nova, and Zoey. But not me. Did you get that clear?” I asked, on which he nodded his head.

“Great.” I let him go when I thought he had learned his lesson, and he quickly ran out, not before threatening me by pointing his index finger.

“Now, just wait and watch. I’m going to call Mom and will lie to her that you hit me.”

Really?

Well, today, I was prepared for everyone.

“Mom!! Mom!!” I heard a loud voice from Andrian.

“What happened, sweetheart?”

“That Delilah hit me hard and also threatened me.”, he cried.

“How dare she!! I will break her hand, which she raised to hit you.”, That bitched screamed, and then I heard the sound of her slipper coming toward me, along with her little messenger.

“How dare you, witch!! You hit the next heir of this family.”, She screamed and walked inside my room. “Wake up, Delilah! I said wake up!”, She screamed at the top of his lungs.

I lazily lift my head and a tight slap plastered on my cheek. I felt slight pain, but I was positive that after hitting me, her palms would be in pain more than I was.

“Bitch!! Until now, your sisters and mother saved you from my anger. Otherwise, I would have ripped your skin away from your body. I always kept an eye on how lazy you were from the beginning but as long as those three were here. I avoided teaching you a lesson earlier; it didn’t mean that I couldn’t do that now.”, She yelled. 

“Are you going to leave the bed or not?”, She screamed again, on which I left the bed, and I saw that tiny devil grinning widely behind her mother.

“Mom, she also said that ‘Now onwards, neither my mom nor my sisters will work like a free slave in this house. If you need food or anything, then demand it from your mother’.” he said, mimicking my lines.

“Really?”

“And what will you all do? Eat free food?”, She raised her hand to slap me again, but instead, I held her hand and slapped her at tightly as I could. Immediately Andrian stopped grinning and looked at me in fear. I slapped again on her other cheek; I kept slapping continuously until she and her son were out of my room.

Even after this, she tried to slap me again. Could you believe that?

I held her hand and twisted it. “Dare to disturb my sleep, and I swear, I will rip your skin from your body.”

“I get it, sweetheart. I get it, sweetheart!”

“Sweetheart?” I looked at her in surprise. “Who will prepare breakfast and hot chocolate for Andrian?”

“Me! Me!”

“Better.”

“Now onwards, the kitchen department will be yours.”

“What? I mean, yes, sweetheart!!”

“Perfect. Mom, Nova, and Zoey can help you, but it will be their choice. Their works will take the rest of the work of homes.”

“Okay, Dear!”

“Now, go and prepare hot chocolate for Andrian. He has to attend training and then prepare strong coffee for me, you, and dad.”

“Okay, Dear.”

Once she ran into the kitchen to prepare the things that I had asked her to, I shifted my gaze from her to that little devil, and this time, I smirked, giving him a challenging look. ‘What now?’

“Just wait and watch. I’m going to call Dad and will tell him that you hit mom and me both.”, Saying this, he ran out of the house in search of dad. He would go for a morning walk. After a while, Aarvik returned, holding dad’s hand. “Come, dad, Come!! There she is.”, he said, pointing his finger toward me.

“Maya always told me that you would once show me your real face, but I didn’t believe her. And I was the biggest mistake of my life.”

“Darling!! Darling!!”, And there came the drama queen, shedding crocodile tears. “See what our daughter did to me?”, She cried, showing her cheek.

‘Our daughter’

“Delilah!! What kind of behavior is this?” Dad yelled at me.

“The same treatment which you two did with my mom. She can thank me that I didn’t return the exact count that she slapped to my mom.”

“Delilah,” Dad raised his voice.

“Did your blood boil when I talk with your wife in this way? In the way, my blood used to boil when you both used to mistreat my mom.” I raised my voice and took a deep breath to continue. “All I want to clear is that Mom, Nova, and Zoey aren’t going to serve you three like a slave anymore. The rules of this home are going to change now.”

“And this home is mine.”

“If mom filed against domestic abuse case, then you might end up in your new house called Jail. And if she files another case stating that without divorcing the first wife, you brought another woman in the house, stating her your second wife, which is illegal as long as you haven’t divorced your first wife or she is alive, then she just will not get rid of this marriage but also get this house as alimony and many more.”, I pointed out.

“Did you see this? How is her mouth working like a scissor? Won’t you show her in her right place?”, That bitch asked my father, more like working as fuel in his anger, but I wouldn’t blame her for this. It was my dad who was even listening to her.

“Bring my whip.”, he said, and that little devil ran to bring it happily, but little did they know what was coming next.

“Dad, I’m also your child like Andrian. I have never seen you treating him like that way.”

“Because he is my son. My heir and you six are my headaches in the interval of each two years. I have to bear so many expenses in marriage. In return for that, can’t you all do the household chores? What do you want me to do with all of you? Give you free bread.”

My jaw clenched hearing him.

“Dad?”, he scoffed. “Stop calling me, dad, then. I don’t want you or any of you in my life. But no matter, what I did to your mother, she was never ready to leave me, and let’s keep the things in this way.”, he added and took the whip from Andrian’s hand.

“I don’t know in which language your mother will understand that I hate her and so do I hate you all.”, Saying this, he hit me with a whip for the first time. “From today onwards till your marriage, you will handle all the household works and…", With this, he hit me for the second time, but this time I grabbed it in my hand and snatched it from his hand, and he kept looking at me in shock.

“You and your wife will rule the house, huh?” I asked and whipped that bitch; she cried in pain. He came forward to help her, but I whipped him this time. I kept whipping them one by one and even slapped and punched them, recalling all the abuses that mom bore all her life. I grabbed a stick which they used to hit mom and started using the stick and whip on them with both my hand, beating them black and blue.

“Sweetheart! Dear! My Daughter, Delilah”, They kept begging in front of me, and I recalled how mom used to beg in front of them to let her go.

But they never showed any mercy on her.

Her other daughters might have considered it as her fate and waited for Karma to teach them a lesson.

But I was not them. I would punish them without waiting for Karma.

Nova and Zoey also came out of the washroom and started requesting to leave them, but enough was enough.

Ten years! From Ten years! I was seeing that bitch hitting my mother, and for more than ten years, this jerk father of mine had hit my mom.

I would kill them if I would have to. Hell, this so-called father of mine had also killed my seventh sister in mom’s womb just because she was a girl again.

All of a sudden, someone yanked my shoulder and gave me a tight slap on my face.

“Delilah, have you lost your mind?” Mom scolded me and made me throw both whip and stick from my hand. “Leave from here before I lose my mind.”

My jaws tightened, but without saying anything, I changed my clothes and left the house not before warning then. “Dare you to touch my mother or sisters, or next time I will break your hands.” and then looked at Andrian.

“I will talk with them politely.”, he muttered in fear, hiding behind mom.

“You better.”

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#TBC

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Jyotika Mewara
wow bang on part.. love her confidence
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