Chapter 48 : Aligned

*Beth’s POV*

I was aware that I wasn’t truly awake, but I was in a different kind of reality. My own. All the memories I had forgotten flashed before my eyes. The actual story of my life ran through my head like a movie, without all the parts I’d unintentionally blocked out.

First, I was a child. My father did not favor me. He would scold me and called me “mixed-blood.” My father would kick me, hit me, and slam my head into the ground. He would laugh and smile gleefully as he beat me. My own father.

Every time he raised his hand to strike me, my mother would try and protect me, but she would only receive her own beating as well. My sister, Elisa, would just lie in her hospital bed and laugh at us. Elisa would yell at our mother, berating her for giving birth to a sick child. Elisa would tell our mother it was all her fault that she was ill.