Chapter 6 Punishment

"Father! Papa please,"

I cried out as another stroke of the whip cut into my flesh.

My hands are tied against a tree, and my stomach is pasted on the trunk. Each new stroke was another pain reminding me that I should never have been born.

Seventeen years had passed since I was born and life is getting harder. Since I turned ten, I've lived a life of hatred. I always thought dad was my pal, the only support system I have since I didn't have the opportunity to meet mom, but this was pure hatred.

I am just a shadow of myself.

For breakfast, I receive twenty strokes of the whip, at noon, I receive fifteen, and finally, at night, I receive ten.

Although I have become acquainted with the feeling of the whip on m flesh, I've really not got used to moaning and sobbing each time a new slash tears my flesh.

Dad completely ignored me today, he says it is a special punishment because I have not completed my task of yesterday before going to bed.