Chapter 79

Emma

The hope was not going to disappear, I was keeping it with me, I was not going to allow her to go out. The promise he will love me always and forever. I was brought out of my thoughts by the sound of footsteps, dread sweat went through me, and I started shaking and feeling terrified, scared, and then the smirking face of that cruel man appeared in front of me.

- How are you doing sweetheart? Are you ready for some more punishment? He said and opened the wooden box again.

I crawled to the corner and pressed myself to the wall as if I would be able to disappear in it as if the wall was going to become one with me as if he was going to swallow me and I would not feel the pain that I was about to feel again. He brought a silver knife this time and placed it on my swollen cheek. The touch of the knife itself burned me. He pressed the weapon with even more force than I could imagine and it tore open the flesh of my cheek. I had an opened bloody wound on my cheek. Oh my god, the pain w