The Long Lost Mafia Princess

Chapter 28

I quickly lift my head in the direction from where Matteo is standing.

I get up from dad's lap and walk up to him.

"Oh it's nothing. We were just watching a sad show which made us cry Teo"

He smiled brightly at the nickname.

"Oh okay" Than he gave me a hug and walked up to his brothers.

"Did you hear that, I already got a nickname" He smiled mockingly.

I chuckled seeing their faces.

I stood up quickly and turned to them again.

A wave of dizziness came over me, and I quickly grabbed the first thing I saw to keep me steady until the black dots disappeared.

I stumbled a bit, but eventually recovered and stood up normally.

My wounds were hurting to much, not even normal infection.

I looked over at Elijah, he was already looking at me.

He asked if I was okay, while I shook my head.

It hurt too much even with the painkillers.

I shifted my position, making my back hurt even more.

I stepped out of the room for a bit, needing a breather.

As soon as I was out of eye sight, I removed my sweater. It is hot...why is it so hot here?

I felt my forehead, to feel it really hot too. Now that I was paying attention, I noticed that I was shaking too.

I slit down on the floor.

After a few minutes, someone came.

"Principessa, hey hey, are you okay."

I looked up to see dad looking at me with a worried expression.

I shook my head before saying that he needed to get Elijah and make sure that Matteo doesn't see me like this.

A couple seconds later almost everyone came except for Matteo, probably watching tv.

"what hurts" Elijah quickly asked coming down to my level.

"whip sla-slashes on my back" I cried out, whimpering at the pain.

He motioned dad to pick me up before he ran to the medical wing.

Dad ran after him with me in his arms.

He put me on the bed and asked me if he could take my clothes of.

"Yeah, s-sports bra and s-spandex shorts underneath. I knew for the wounds today so I already put it on." I stammered over my words.

He nodded before helping me take my jeans and shirt off.

I was still trembling and tears started to fill my vision.

Elijah came behind me and started taking bandages off from my body.

I heard some gasps around the room from my family, seeing my injuries.

Elijah started inspecting the whip slashes first.

" hun you have Cellulitis, you'll need to take pills for that for the next to weeks and I'll need to do debridement on some of them"

"What's that?" Dad asked

"Debridement is the removal of dead (necrotic) or infected skin tissue to help a wound heal. It's also done to remove foreign material from tissue. The procedure is essential for wounds that aren't getting better. Usually, these wounds are trapped in the first stage of healing." Elijah answered fast.

"So-so you're cutting my skin off?" I asked nervous.

After struggling to say the words he said "yes"

I looked at dad wide eyes, while Elijah started setting everything up.

"W-wait now?" I asked.

"Yes, I need to. Your infected skin tissue is spreading and that is stopping the process of healing. If this infection enters your bloodstream you'll be in big trouble physically. We need to do it now, you can do it baby. Just breathe."

I nodded and looked at the scalpel in his hand.

I looked away and felt some cleaning stuff on my back which burned.

I whimpered in pain, while tears fell like a waterfall from my eyes.

After a few more seconds he asked if I was ready.

My hands were shaking even more.

"Just tell me about the burn on your leg, how did you get it?"

"I woke up late so I didn't have enough time to do everything. I cleaned I house as fast as I could, when I was done with that I started making breakfast for sir and ma'am. When I was done with that I grabbed my school bag and tried to rush out the door. But sir grabbed my hair and pulled me to him while covering my mouth. Ma'am was standing in front of me and started yelling and asking questions. They also started laughing and I tried to get away, but they grabbed me again and asked where I was going, I said I was going to school. Sir said the 'without you punishment'. They started kicking and slapping me which hurt even more than normal because the night before I already got punished. Eventually they stopped and sir took of his belt..."

Elijah started cutting away infected flesh making me whimper in pain, but I continued.

"Ma'am took of my clothes so that it would hurt more than she threw me against the wall making my shoulder dislocate. I tried to go away while they snuck up on me. Than they started hitting me with the belt. With every hit they said something like 'you stupid bitch, nobody loves you, everyone hates you, you should die, that I ruined their lives, that I'm ugly, fat, disgusting, worthless.... After 10 belt hits they stopped with that while I lay there in a pool of my own blood. They just started eating their breakfast like nothing happened. Ma'am said that I needed to clean the blood and stuff so I tried to get up but fell to the ground again. I also hadn't eaten in like 3 weeks so I had no energy. Ma'am was laughing and then stood up walking towards me while I backed away. Eventually I hit the wall and couldn't go anywhere. Ma'am then came with the burning hot pan and than pressed it against my thighs. I could feel my skin burning off. Eventually she released and the pan fell to the ground, I could see my skin on there. After that I showered again took another pair of clothes and ran out of the door hearing them yell after me. Later that day you guys came. When we came back to the house I could still see the pool of blood from me behind the kitchen counter with the pan and burned flesh." I finished, I was so busy telling the story I almost didn't feel anything.

"I'm sorry baby" Elijah said.

"It's okay" I answered back.

" I'm done with you back turn around for your stomach."

I did as he said and started telling other stories that they wanted to know to take my mind of the pain.

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After we finished we went back to the living room to talk some more. I was cuddled in Allesandro's arms and eventually fell asleep.