← “bBurn /bthose who bburned /bme!”

bChapter /bb4 /b

bi-Rabena’s /i/bbPOV/bb: /b

I walked back into the Crest estate after filing for divorce, from this point on, Pera would handle everything. She said it would take five days to process everything for the divorce. That was fine by me, the banks also stated it would take a few days to close and transfer my money. Over the years, my uncles had been sending merge sums of money, I never spent it. My original n was to give a portion of it to Thomas to help increase his businesses, oh well, enough of that.

As soon as I walked into the foyer, I was greeted by a hard p. Amber’s hand stung fire into my face. I immediately fell back into the wall, my head hit the back of the panel hard causing a sharp pain down my spine. Dazed I looked up confused.

“iDid /iiyou /iithink /iiyou /iiwere /iigoing /iito /iijust /iidisrespect /iiall /iof us iand /iiget /iiaway /iiwith /iiit/ii!/ii” /i

Amber was now fuming, with my husband standing behind her, I realized where she got her courage from. Looking down at me she spoke some more.

i“/iiApologize /iito /iiyour /iisister/ii! /iiNow/ii!/ii” /i

I looked at the woman that birthed me, for so many years I wondered why I couldn’t earn her love, why I wasn’t wanted? Suddenly, it dawned on me, she didn’t need me as a daughter. All those years, her and my father could have been found me, but they were perfectly fine with just having Danielle. With fire in my

eyes, I began to speak.

i“/iI. Willi. /iNoti./ii” /i

Amber’s eyes began to bulge, she was beyond furious. She raised her hand about to strike me again when suddenly, Thomas kneeled down facing me. In a low and menacing tone, he began to speak.

i“/iYou’ve had your fun iRabena/ii. /iiEnough /iis ienough/ii. /iiApologize /iito /iiyour /iisister /iand iwe’ll /iall move on from this.”

I could hear Amber scoffed behind him, but I wasn’t backing down.

“And if I don’t?i” /i

Suddenly, Danielle threw herself down at my feet disying her best crocodile tears.

i“/iRabena please forgive ime/i! I iknow /ithat you have always been jealous because it seems like everyone loves me more than you, but you are imy /isisteri! /iiPlease /idon’t ibe /iiangry /iwith ime/ii!/ii” /i

I stared at Danielle with intense eyes, they may not have known it, but she was faking big time. Suddenly, Darius began to speak.

i“/iGot dammit Rabenai! /iLook at what you are doing to Dant! Stop all iof /ithis now! Apologize!”

bJust /bthen, Daniel spoke up.

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i“/iiI /idon’t iknow /iiwhat /iiyou’re /iitrying /ito prove ihere/i, but iyou /iwon’t get iyour /iiway/ii. /iCome ion /iiDani/i, stand iup/ii. /iiShe’s /inot iworth /iiyour /ikindness.”

I couldn’t help butugh at this freak show being disyed. Watching all of these fools fawn over her was like acid to my brain, I finally decided to stand up, suddenly, Thomas grabbed my arm hard.

i“/iiI’ll /isay it againi! /iApologize!”

i“/iiNo./i”

Thomas looked at me with darkening eyes, suddenly, a creepy smile curled onto his lips.

“Fine. Since you wanna be ithis /iwayi. /iYou’ll payi./i”

He began to drag me outside, suddenly, everyone began to follow. I started screaming and scratching at Thomas arms, but it was of no use. With every struggle his grip got tighter, it felt like my arm was about to snap. Finally, we arrived at the destination. It was my parents‘ shed. Why was he bringing me here? I began to panic but he justughed.

“iWhere’s /iall ithat /iifire /iyou ijust /iihad/ii!/ii” /i

Thomas taunted me as opened the shed doors, suddenly, he threw me down to the ground. My right should hit the ground hard causing an immediate bruise. I looked at all the faces staring at me. I wanted to burn their faces into my brain, I would make them all pay. Finally, Thomas spoke.

You’ll stay here until you apologize. No one let her out of this shed, give her no food, no water, nothing! Not until she apologizes. Everyone looked on, there was a faint look of remorse in Darius‘ face, but it was soon overshadowed the moment Danielle walked up.

“Thomas, you don’t ihave /iito /iido /iithis/ii. /iiRabena /iiis /iijust /ia ilittle /iijealous /iwe didn’t celebrate her birthdayi./i”

Amber let out another scoff.

“What is there to celebrate? iDani /iiyou’re /iimy /isweet angel but sometimes your heart is just too big.”

Daniel rolled his beyes/bb; /bhe was growing tired of my “antics“.

“Just apologize, is all of this really necessaryi? /iiYou /iwant to take the attention from Dani that bad.”

1 didn’t say a word. They all stared at me waiting for me to cave, waiting for me to apologize, waiting for me to beg; but I didn’t say one word. Thomas let out a sigh.

i“/iiFine/ii. /iHave it iyour /iway. Nobody opens this door until she apologizes. Got that.”

Everyone nodded their heads and turned away, before she left, Amber made sure to say one more thing.

b“/bbIf /bishe /idies, make sure to reserve her body in case Dani ever gets sick again.”

And that was it. Door closed; I was left in a dark shed.

Through the cracks of the shed walls, I could see it was no now dark outside. Iid in my shed of hell with thoughts of today possibly being myst day alive. My phone had already died so there was no way to call for help, but I didn’t care. I once read that the human body could go at least three days without food or water before it finally gives. That was fine, I’d dly go through three days of hell if it meant I could get away from these people.

By day two I had gone over 50 hours without food or drink. I could feel my body slowly starting to drift, the first full day my stomach cramped so bad from hunger that I began to heave but because there was no food in my system, all that came up was saliva. By day two however, the stomach pains were gone, all I could at that moment was sleepiness. Two days and my family had note to check if I were dead or alive. By the end of day two, my body slowly began to give. As I drifted into a slumber, I thought of my uncle and Pera. I knew the Crests would never inform them of my death. The thought of that made me want to cry but my body had no more liquid to produce. Instead, I asked for their forgiveness for being so stubborn. Night fell and I finally drifted to sleep.

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