Delphine's Family

Chapter 46- Damn

Delphine's POV

"Mom" Of course the bitch is behind this all. 

"I'm so glad to see you again Livy." She spits out her nickname for me. 

"Why are we here?" She circles us like a hawk before stopping behind Nico and playing with his hair. 

"You know when I met your dad I was happy. I got free action and didn't have to do anything, then you came along and ruined everything. I was forced to move away, who wants to be with a fat cow. Then when I had you no one wanted to be with me. Who wants to be with a single mom? No one."

"So you pushed your insecurities on me?"

"What can I say you were an easy target. A nobody girl with no family and no friends who would come to school bruised. No one would ask any questions."

She grips Nico's hair and brings his back. I jerk forward pulling against the restraints on my wrists. 

"Don't worry I'm not gonna hurt him. You whoever will be getting hurt. "

She snaps her fingers and a man comes in with a tub with water splashing out onto the floor. He sets it in front of me. My mom walks over and grabs me out of my chair-throwing me to the ground. I can feel the cold ground hit every single wound the asshole gave earlier. 

She wraps her hand around my hair and drags me over to the bucket. She smirks at me first before pushing my head down. I struggle against her trying to lift my head up but she pushes her knee against my back. 

She holds my head in the bucket and then lifts me out. I cough up the water trying to breathe. She lets me catch my breath before plunging my head back into the bucket. 

This goes on 5 more times before she throws me to the floor. I choke on my breath trying to fill my lungs. I lay on the floor until she comes over again. 

I was on the ground focusing on my breathing until all the air left my body and echoed screams could be heard. I felt an overwhelming pain shoot up through my body starting at my leg and traveling up and down never lessening. 

When she stops I can taste my salty tears as I try to not choke on my own saliva. The screaming has stopped but I can hear Nico yelling but I don't see him anymore. 

I can hear her walking away and saying something but I can't hear her. 

"Delphine come on wake up please."

"Delphine come on baby."

I open my eyes and roll over to see Nico looking worriedly down at me. 

"What I'm not dead yet."

"thank god."

I look around and see something shiny out of the corner of my eye. I look over to see that one of the prior idiots left one of the knives on the floor. With my hands still behind my back, I reach over with my feet trying. They feel like jelly. 

Hearing the slight clink of the metal on the floor I kick up foot up towards me hearing the knife scraping the floor. Looking back I can see the knife closer I bend my leg trying to use my foot to move the knife closer. 

With the knife closer to my hands I reach out to grip the knife. feeling the blade in my hand I move it against the plastic around my wrist. I cut myself but keep cutting the zip-ties. 

Feeling the plastic loosen I pull my wrists away hearing the crack of the zip ties breaking. I push myself back up and gab the knife. I crawl over to Nico who had been watching me the whole time. 

I cut off his ankles and move behind him cutting teh ones around his wrist. he drops down beside me and grips my face as m eyes start to close. 

"Delphine stay awake." He taps my cheek a little.

The last thing I hear is loud crashing and screaming.