Chapter 11

“Y…you, what happened to you?” she asked as she stammered, her eyes still on the scars and wounds at the latter’s naked parts.

However, just as she asked that question, she shook her head, thinking that she was foolish, how could she ask her that question when its quite evident what had happened.

“Alaine, come in here,” she shouted, startling both Tracy and Alaine.

Tracy stared at her, a frown on her face, not understanding what that woman was calling her mother for.

She opened her mouth to say something but her mother had already opened the door.

As soon as she walked in, she looked around panickingly, didn’t see anything wrong and sighed in relief. “Why are you screaming? Gosh, someone might think that something bad has happened,”

Hearing her words, Rhoda turned to her, fury in her eyes and face. “Nothing bad? Are you blind?”

Alaine frowned, not understanding why the latter was behaving like that. “Can you come down and explain what’s wrong?”

Rhoda pointed at the woman, her chest rising and falling as she was breathing in heavily. Staring at the woman and noticing that she had really not discovered what was wrong, she dropped her hand as she sighed deeply, but not completely, she just placed it on her chest and started patting it, trying to soothe her heart.

“Look at your daughter and tell me what’s wrong.”

Alaine stared at her friend for a while before turning to look at Tracy.

Seeing the ugly scars and some were even recent, she was stunned. She had just seen one hand but never expected her body to look like this.

Tracy was in a very short towel, thus the two women could see how her thighs and legs looked like.

Alaine stared at those scars, finding hard to believe.

Tears filled her eyes as she imagined the torture her daughter had gone through. She slowly and heavily averted her gaze from the scars and looked at Tracy which didn’t have any scar. She guessed that those people were afraid that their neighbors would discover that something was wrong and report them thus they didn’t dare beat her face.

Also, since Tracy was malnourished and had a yellow skin, it hide her beauty too well. They never thought that she was beauty to overshadow their daughter once she returned.

“Baby, be good and remove the towel for mommy to see,” she said with a choking sound.

Tracy stared at her mother for a while not knowing what to do. She looked at her body, then looked at the two women who were staring at her expectantly and sighed.

She slowly took off her towel, she didn’t see anything to hide as they were both women, also, she was quite ugly. She wasn’t looking down on herself but she just knew how her current body looked like.

In her previous life, she had been afraid that Tracy won’t be able to take it thus she never revealed her scars but in this life, she didn’t care about anything but herself.

Gulps from the women were heard, before she even looked back at them, she heard sounds of suppressed cries.

She lifted her head, only to see the two women crying.

“What kind of beasts would do this to a kid,” Rhoda asked, her voice coming out as a whisper despite being angry as she was still crying.

“It’s nothing,” Tracy said shrugging, not to reassure them but because to her, the scars didn’t matter at all. With the skills she had learnt in prison, she was confident that she would get her perfect body back in no time.

“These scars, I am even afraid that with the doctor’s scar removing ointment, they wouldn’t fade,” Alaine murmured.

“Can you please turn around?” Rhoda asked, her voice seeming so distant, one could tell from it that she was afraid of what she might see but still, there was determination and curiosity in her eyes.

Tracy nodded and did as instructed. The reason she allowed the woman to look at her was because she was the one who would be massaging her, since she would still see them in the end, why hide them now?

Alaine hurriedly shut her eyes, tears still flowing down her cheeks. It was just as they had expected, there were more scars on her daughter’s back that on the other parts.

“See, this is the kind your precious daughter lived when she was in Eve’s place. How did you treat that daughter? I wouldn’t mention as you clearly know. Compare, compare the two lives and tell me. Do our baby really owe that girl and her family to be treated like this?” Rhoda shouted, her eyes red and lips trembling.

Tracy turned around only to see her biting her lip harder and knew that the woman was just trying to be strong. She turned to her mother then at Rhoda. She had guessed that the two had close relationship but never expected it to be this good.

Rhoda was trying to be strong as her mother had already broken down.

Hearing Rhoda’s words, Alaine forced herself to open her eyes but when she opened them, they weren’t as they were before. Instead, they were filled with rage and hatred.

“What’s the use of hating? Those who you should hate aren’t even here. You can leave and go find them. However, let me warn you, all those scheming thoughts that were in your mind, you better get rid of them. That girl, born from that witch, I don’t want to see her in front of me, ever. If she does, don’t blame me for being ruthless,” Rhoda words were quite ruthless and hateful, but Tracy felt that she was sincere towards her thus she didn’t care how the latter treated the others at all.

The two women turned and stared at Alaine waiting to see her next move.