Almost Easy

Chapter Seventy-Nine:

I jumped when I heard a loud crash. My eye opened, grudgingly. I looked at my surroundings, confused. Bathroom? I tried to remember why I was in the bathroom. Oh. I remembered Derek’s attack. Fresh tears burned down my face.

“What the fuck happened here, Derek?!” My father screamed. I flinched, even though he’s in the other room.

“I-It’s n-not what it looks like!” He exclaimed. Someone got in blow.

“I warned you about what would happen if you touched my daughter!” Adam yelled. Derek sniffled.

“No! Please! I’m sorry! Don’t do this! I beg of you! Please!” Derek pleaded with my father. “Wh-what do you need that for?”

“I need it for evidence. How else are they going to know that you raped an under-aged girl?!” He bellowed.

“Y-you’re turning me in?!” Derek asked.

“That’s not all I’m going to do to you.” Adam calling him quietly. “I know that I made it clear that you would receive the same treatment as my daughter, should you harm her. I am a man of my word and I never go back on a promise, but I refuse to sink to your pathetic level. Do you understand me?” Adam growled.

“I-I’m not s-sure.”

“A friend of mine will taking care of you and when he is finished, I’ll be the one to rip away that pathetic excuse, you call 'man hood.'”

“You won’t really…” Derek tried to beg. I could hear him sobbing.

“I’m going to take pleasure in castrating you like the bitch you are.” Adam huffed. A bang rang through the building. Did Adam shoot Derek? Before I could wonder about anything else, someone banged on the bathroom door. “Little Dove, please, open the door. How badly are you hurt?” Adam asked me quietly.

I crawled over the door and unlocked it, still holding my side. He opened the door and looked down at me. He got down on the floor and picked me up. He carried me up the stairs and into what looks like his room. He set me on the floor and came back with a plastic sheet and covered his bed with it. He laid me on his bed and gently lifted off my shirt. He scowled in disapproval when he saw my side and how much I had already bled out. It’s not slowing down. I tried.

“What did he do to you, little Dove?” Adam asked me, quietly.

“He cornered me as soon as you left.” I whispered, unable to speak any louder than that. My entire throat is bruised. “I tried to fight him off and he…” I wept. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. “He had his belt around my throat and he stabbed me. I-I… I locked myself into the bathroom, when he finished.”

“I’m proud of you.” He whispered. “I have a friend stopping by. He’ll be able to sew you up and give you some antibiotics. I’ll bring you some new clothes. I’m sorry. I didn’t think that he had the balls to defy me.”

“You didn’t force yourself on me.”

“But I did lose my temper last night. You’re my daughter, my own flesh and blood, but I don’t want you dead. I will make him pay for what he’s done to you.” He vowed. I looked at him in disbelief. What a twisted mess this has all become…

“Thank you.” I whispered.

Notes

Let me just say, so much karma next chapter. It will be up tomorrow or Monday. I'm not sure which. It depends on how inspired I'm feeling, to be honest.

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