Surrender -Under Re-Write

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Daniel's POV

My own ear piercing screams didn't phase him as I begged for him to stop.

The stinging on my back intensified each time the belt slid across my back. The stinging of the belt wasn't what hurt the most, it was the burning that the wolfsbane left behind that made this practically unbearable.

"This is your fault! You didn't help her!" He bellows out as he lands another hit to my back.

I try to hold in my screams knowing it only fuels him more. Sweat dripped from every pore of my weakened body as I slumped to the ground after another hit.

He stands directly in front of me now. His once clean dress shoe was scuffed after the multiple kicks to my body from earlier. He leans down and roughly grabs my chin to look him in the eye.

"You brought this on yourself. You selfish boy." He says before raising his fist.

My sweating body shoots up from the bed right as I expect the blow.

My chest tightens as I struggle to breathe. I stumble out of bed and attempt to turn on the lamp beside my bed, but am only met with a loud crash. I fall to my hands knees as I fight for air to reach my lungs. I could feel my stomach twisting and my body shaking at the hellish nightmare.

I let out a choked sob once I'm finally able to take a breath.

It was just a dream. I keep telling myself, but it wasn't really just a dream. It was a memory.

Angelique's POV

I shoot up from my bed and suck in a deep breath. I was sweating. I was sweating and shaking like crazy.

What the fuck is happening to me?

I look all around the room trying to find any reason why I'm feeling this immense anxiety. Before I could fully figure out what was happening my body carried me out of bed as I rushed out of the cabin and towards the cabin that Daniel was staying in. My body ached with the feeling that something was wrong.

I burst through the door and into where Daniels room was hoping I didn't wake Maya or any of my other sleeping family members. When I walked in his lamp on the bedside table was in pieces on the ground, leaving the bedroom completely dark besides the light from under the closed bathroom door.

I hadn't paid attention to the sound of the running shower till I heard the squeaking of it being shut off. Two seconds later Daniel emerges from the door, only a towel covering his lower half.

When he lands eyes on me he jumps back against the door. "Shit!" He yells.

What are you doing!" He whisper screams once he registers that it's me.

"What are you doing!" I question back.

"Showering?" He answers confused.

"At 3 in the morning?"

"What are you doing here standing in the dark at 3 in the morning!"

Clearly our whisper screams weren't quiet enough. When we hear the sound of another door opening Daniel pulls me inside and shuts the door behind me. He presses his hand to my mouth as my back hits the door.