EMERALD

Chapter 1: Left for dead

"wake up you bone head!!

"It's already 4 o'clock but you're still sleeping, don't you know that you have duties here!!" shouted a woman in her mid-twenties fuming with anger at the little girl sleeping on the basement floor with ragged clothes that barely fit her.

The little girl was so skinny that you could make a blueprint of her bones and her body covered in bruise and infected wounds. Her appearance was worse than that of a beggar. Her black hair disheveled and her face filled with black and blue mark indicating that they were untreated internal wounds, her eyes looked red because of lack of sleep.

She immediately took a bucket of cold water and poured it on the innocent child sleeping making her jerk off drenched in water.

"I..l...a...m sorry Miss Ever l didn't me........

Before the the little child could even finish speaking she was greeted by a hard slap making her fall with a thud sound on the floor.

"How many times have l told you to wake up early and do your chores?" She shouted to the little child on the floor. The poor child's chick was already bruised with the force of the hit, honestly who wouldn't have a bruise if they were slapped by a werewolf.

"You will learn your lesson today for sure!" Miss Ever started kicking the poor child's stomach so hard leading to the child to spit a mouthful of blood on the floor.

"Stop! you're hurting me. Please forgive me, am so sorry l won't do it again" the child pleaded for her to stop but she only received more beatings until she fainted.

The child's POV

I woke feeling sore everywhere, especially in my stomach. I am so weak right now because l haven't eaten for the past two days and the days before l haven't eaten proper food, l have only been eating two slices of bread a day and only a few drops of water. I looked around but the room was dark but l could see perfectly in the dark, only the small window brought in the moon's light inside.

Today is my 8th birthday birthday but it's always a nightmare, l sometimes wish l was never born. Miss Ever is actually my biological mother but she hates me to the extreme because she never wanted me to be born but she was forced to carry me until l was born because the shaman told her that it inauspicious to abort a child in days of the full moon because misfortune may fall upon them.

She has always hated because I was a mistake that caused her to loose the opportunity to be Luna of the Greenfield pack. I think you're wondering why l know this, it because she has always told me why she hates me so much that's why she makes me suffer a lot.

I have been abused since the day l was born and considered a bad omen by everyone because of my eyes are yellow not lens but the whole eye is yellow in colour probably they are glowing in the dark right now. Everyone thinks that am a monster but it's not like I was the one who made them look like that way.

I immediately moved to a corner hugging my knees when l heard the door opening and soon it was Mr Ever, my father walking in with a scary face. I held my knees tighter as fear gripped me. He is more evil than his wife, last time burned my hands because his tea was so hot, as punished he dipped my hands in boiling water.

"Well well look at our little scaredy rat here, enjoying the dark sweety?"

"I guess we could make you see it forever coz l don't think you live to see tomorrow." he said with an evil grin, soon his wife walked in with a baseball stick.