"Mind explaining?" Zora's father asked as she entered.
"Well, good evening to you too," Zora replied sarcastically.
Her father ignores her sarcastic behaviour and walks towards her with the injection needle still in his left hand behind him.
"Explain this now!" Mr Brooke shouts as he was finally standing before Zora.
"Could you not raise your voice at me, but explain to me what you're talking about?"
After Zora spoke to her father with such an attitude, she was welcomed with a smack across her face from her father.
After the hit Zora received, Zora held her hand over her face while her step-sister and step-mother try to hold back their laughs.
Zora was shocked by the fact she was being scolded for something she was unaware of and was ready to retaliate.
As Zora went to hit back her father, her father grabbed her hand and inject the drugs that were in the injection needle.
"Ahh—"
After being injected, Zora screams out in pain as the drugs enter her body.
"YOU! What did you do to me and why!"?
"Tell me why she had to do that to your sister!"?
"What nonsense!"?
"I don't even kn—"
"O, dad!" Rebecca plead as she wrapped her hand around her father.
"Don't hurt her dad. She only did this because she was jealous of my hairstyle."
Hearing that, Mr Brooke calm a little, then order, "Guards, bring her to the basement," while he points at Zora.
The guards grabbed Zora and pulled her to the basement harshly, then chained her up like a wild animal.
After the guards had finished chaining Zora, they left, then Mr Brooke entered and walk towards Zora with a whip in his right hand.
As he was before Zora, he asked, "Do you remember this?" as he held the whip to Zora's face.
"Yes, the whip you always beat me with after you naively believe your wife over me," Zora replied in a cold tone, even though she was in a pretty bad position.
"I don't understand. . . how I treat you so well, but you never respect my decision and the family you have now," Mr Brooke said as he gave off a nasty, mean look.
"HAHA!" Zora laughs madly, "If you treat me so well, why am I chained up down here!"
After raising her voice at her father, her father use the whip in his hand and slap her twice, which left marks on her.
"AHHH!" Zora cried out in pain.
"I love—I treat you too well for you to be so rude, arrogate and jealous over stupid shits like that!" Mr Brooke shouts as he whips Zora again.
"See, you couldn't even say love you, but surprisingly, you think you treat me well? Haha, hit me and get this over with!" Zora shouts as a small teardrop fell from her eyes.
You could say Zora was the best actor. Smile so happily in public but at home, her tone and smile change.
Her sweet and humble gaze in public was nothing like the look she give her family. The look they got was filled with ice-cold hatred.
Well, except for Rebecca, who got the soft side of Zora, because Zora trust her, but to her father and stepmother, it was very clear that she hated them.
After Zora's father had finished whipping her, he left the basement and ensure to leave the light off because Zora was going to stay the night there.
On Zora's body, she was wounded badly, that no white was shown on her dress.
Zora had a tough heart, but to be beaten this bad was nothing she could bear or do anything about other than cry.
While crying, she started to feel as if her body was becoming weak and tired. Soon after, her eyes became blurry, even though she couldn't see anything before; then she became dizzy until she faint while chained up.
***
Demar's POV
"My head hurts, maybe I am still suffering from my accident," Demar said as his head began to hurt the same time Zora got whipped by her father.
"Ahh. . . This headache is getting worse. I need a pill."
After a couple of minutes, Demar's headache was eased after Zora had fainted.
"Good, I can do some late night work now."
***
In the morning. . .
"Zora?" Rebecca called out as she entered the basement carrying a soup on a tray for Zora.
When she found where Zora was chained, she touched Zora but got no response from her.
She continues shaking her, but no response.
"Is she dead? Well, finally," Rebecca said to herself, "I should probably scream to make my intentions to her look realistic."
"HELP! HELP! Zora is not responding!"
1 minute after Rebecca fake screamed for help, Mr Brooke, his wife, two guards and a doctor were in the basement with Rebecca and Zora, who were unconscious.
"She's not responding!" Rebecca cried.
"Let me see her," the doctor said as he pulled Rebecca away from Zora to check Zora if she was okay.
After 2 hours, the doctor was able to find the problem as to why Zora was unconscious.
"Zora is fine. She was only unconscious. She will be awake after 24 hours."
"So, what was the problem?" Mr Brooke asked, "I have beaten her more than once before. Why now this happened?"
"Did you dose her any drugs?" the doctor asked, which put Rebecca in an unease position.
*Sigh*
"I gave her a dose of the new medicine we made. The medicine can't be that bad, right?"
"Boss, those medicines aren't made for Zora much less any girl!" the doctor said as he rage at his boss.
"She deserves it!" Mr Brooke said, "In fact, you can leave now."
The doctor was about to leave, but instead stood there then said, "That medicine and the whipping you gave her over something so petty almost cause, not just her life but her unborn child."
After saying those words which leave Mr Brooke, Mrs Brooke and Rebecca in silence, the doctor walk away and left through the front door.