ALLURE

024

"I've been working on it, putting in overtime..."

⚠️WARNING⚠️: There will be scenes of self-harm and abuse in this chapter!!!

Sighing deeply, Ambriella tried to wipe the tears that flowed down her face. She felt trapped and she was hoping that her father's plan would work so she could escape him and go on to live a happy life with her girlfriend Janel. She was snapped out of her thoughts when a knock sounded off at her window, she smiled seeing Janel climbing in.

"Hey beautiful, why the long face?" Janel asked Ambriella who wiped the tears off her face.

"I failed my father again, he sent me to find my brother for his own selfish reasons and when I showed up at his door he wouldn't even let me inside long enough to get any info! So now when my dad gets home I'm so fucked!" She cried into Janel's arms trying to calm herself down.

Janel sighed trying to keep her emotions at bay. She hated seeing her girlfriend of four years hurting like this and Janel always hated Ambriella's father due to the fact that he was very abusive towards Ambriella physically, emotionally, and sexually.

"Baby, I told you a long time ago that you need to leave this house! I have enough money to move us out of the fucking country and if you let me I'll keep you safe from him!"

"Janel, I can't go anywhere! You don't get it, wherever I go he will find me. When I tried to run away the first time he found me all the way out in Alaska, and let's not even talk about when he brought me home"

Ambriella snapped her head in the direction of her door when she heard some noises coming from downstairs. She began to panic when her father called her name, his voice was laced with so much anger that she almost pissed herself.

"Shit! Janel, you gotta leave, I'll see you later!"

"I love you, Brielle!"

"Forever baby!"

Janel placed a kiss on her girlfriends before quickly climbing out the window that she entered in. Once she was gone, Ambriella locked the window and sat on her bed preparing herself for the storm coming her way.

Clinton walked into his third born child's bedroom with his anger through the roof. He saw her petite frame in a fetal position in the corner of her bed. He let out a bitter chuckle and walked over to her.

"Ambriella Dream Brown! When I sent you to California what did I ask of you?"

"Y-you asked me to trick Chris into meeting up with you so that you could..." she paused choking on her words trying to hold back the tears because she never wanted to hurt her eldest brother.

"SO THAT I COULD WHAT?!!" He shouted causing her to jump up.

"So that you could kill him..." She said through tears, Clinton watched with an emotionless look on his face as his daughter cried.

"And how did that work out for you?"

"Papa, please don't hurt me! It's not my fault that things didn't work out, he didn't even give me a chance to speak before slamming the door in my face!" She lied straight through her teeth, even though her life was on the line she couldn't bring herself to mention Chris's fiancé and children because she knew he would go after them.

"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk! Ambriella, you should know by now how things work! When I send you to do something, it should get done! And when things don't work out what happens?"

"I get punished..." She mumbled out trying to keep a brave face.

"Glad you know!" Clinton said before grabbing her legs dragging her to the edge of the bed.

"Papa! Please don't do this, I-I can do better!" She screamed out trying to get out of his grasp. Her cry's fell on deaf ears as he tied her hands and feet to each side of the bed.

He licked his lips looking his daughter up and down before letting out a bitter chuckle. He began to rip off the clothes that covered her slim figure until she was only in her underclothes and looked at her scarred up body with a look of disgust.

"I'm sorry Ambriella, but you put this on yourself" He mumbled before whipping her with the African whip that he kept for moments like these.

She cried out and begged for him to stop but looked her in the eyes and continued the abuse for hours and hours. Once he was satisfied with her punishment, he untied her from the bed and left the room with a smile on his face.

Ambriella laid on the bed in so much pain, she could barely even move her body but she gathered up all her strength and crawled over to the bathroom. Once she was in the bathroom she searched the medicine cabinet for one of the razors that her father would use to cut her up, when she found on that was big enough she laid out on the floor with her back against the tub.

"Mom, I'm so, so sorry about everything! I never saw how much of a monster he was until it was too late and now I'm left to suffer! But I refuse to suffer any longer, I'm coming to see you mom...I love you!" She mumbled to herself as if she was speaking to her deceased mother who committed suicide due to the abuse of her father.

She placed the razor at the end of her wrist and sliced upward until she reached the top of her forearm. She silently cried before doing the same to the other arm and laying her head back against the wall letting the blood drop down her arms.

Two hours later...

Her eyes fluttered open and quickly closed due to the bright lights above her. "Baby, thank god you're alive! You scared the shit outta me!" She heard Janel's voice but she thought she was dreaming.

"W-What's going on? I'm supposed to be dead! No, no, no!" She began to panic but calmed down when Janel's lips kissed her forehead.

"Baby, calm down! I handled your father so he won't ever bother us again, once you're all healed I got us both tickets to Argentina! We are going to start a new life there together!"

"I love you so much Ambriella you have no idea!"

"Forever and always!" She replied before placing a passionate kiss on her girlfriend's lips. She couldn't believe that her days of torture were finally over, she was so grateful to have met someone like Janel.