Todos los capítulos de Please Love Me Just Once: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 9

My whole body was shivering in pain, while blood trickled down the corners of my lips. Yet, my parents were still busy arguing. Neither of them even considered taking care of me. Still, I craned my neck up to my mother as best as I could as I lay on the ground.My plea came out broken as I breathed weakly, "It hurts, Mom… Can you take me to the hospital?"My mother, Selina Riverson, frowned in disgust and kicked me away. "Get away from me, you filthy beast! You want to go to the hospital for such a minor injury? Do you think you're some pampered princess just like the women your father slept with?"My father, Chris Wood, became livid. He stomped over to Selina, but he didn't hesitate to ground my fingers with his shoes, ignoring my sharp gasps of pain. "You're a wench, Selina Riverson! Any random woman out on the street is nicer than you! You're just a jealous harpy!"And because you're born evil, she could lie as easily as she breathes!"Selina sneered. She was mocking Chris, but

I was her biological daughter. Me. Yet, she couldn't even bring herself to give me a fake smile when it was my birthday. Heck, she fed the birthday cake my grandmother bought me to the dogs just so I wouldn't even get a bite.Selina thought I deserved nothing good in life because I was also Chris's daughter. To her, someone like me didn't deserve birthdays, which meant no cakes. I wasn't even allowed to make mistakes because I didn't deserve a second chance. If I dared to mess up even a little, she would use every opportunity she could to beat me up with a steel bat until I was bruised all over, until my bones were fractured.I was only ten years old. Yet, I suffered seven of those years enduring her brutal beatings.…When Zoe woke up and saw the results of Selina's work overnight, she was pleasantly surprised. She jumped into Selina's arms and begged her to make a wish and blow the candle together.Selina said yes with a genuine smile on her lips. After the wish was made, sh

Selina's face went white, as if she was hit by a bolt of thunder. Her hand was on the door handle, and her fingers couldn't stop shaking. She opened her mouth, but not a word came out. A while later, she snapped out of it as her eyes went red.She demanded hoarsely, "What? I need you to repeat that. Who died? Zestina? No. That brat is tough. She can't be… dead."The cops fell silent for a moment and looked at her with pity. "Calm down, ma'am. We know it's hard for you to accept this, but she's dead. There's nothing we can do about it now. However, we'd appreciate it if you could cooperate with us in our investigation.""Investigation?" Selina's voice turned shrill. She lunged and shoved the cop in the lead away. "Nonsense! My daughter's alive! She can't be dead! She's just playing hooky! Why are you cursing her? Get out! Get out right this instant! Don't block the entrance! I'm going home! I'll find out where that brat's been!"It seemed that Selina was upset, but I felt nothing

"Yeah, you're right, I am a monster, but you're not much better than me! You tried to abandon her multiple times when she was alive just so you could sleep around! You left a five-year-old alone on a bustling street! She was nearly kidnapped and sold!" Selina retorted hotly. "There wouldn't be a corpse lying here if I hadn't been secretly following her!"That hit Chris where it hurt most. Regret and shame flickered on his face, but the longstanding feud between them refused to let him back down. "If you've been following her, then why didn't you take her home? Why did you just stand there and let her cry?"Selina had no comeback for that. She wanted to keep arguing, but then a scene of a younger me bawling on the street appeared in her mind's eye. She clutched her chest, her heart aching, and she couldn't say a word.If she could time travel, she'd go back and strangle the old her who had watched on with satisfaction.The cops exchanged looks. The fierce argument between my paren

"You keep calling me a murderer, but have you ever looked in the mirror? How did you treat her when she was alive, darling mother of the year?" Leslie snarled.His question echoed in Selina's head. She stood frozen as her mind kept replaying memories of the abuse I'd suffered at her hands. Before I was three, I was her most precious treasure. Alas, she grew to resent me because of a mistake Chris made.She cursed me, hit me, and humiliated me for another girl she wasn't even related to. Even the pendant I had risked my life to protect became something she used to make someone else happy.She was the reason I came to this world, but she was also the reason I died horribly. Selina had nothing to say. She curled on the ground and cried so much that her tears could probably turn the desert into a tropical forest.Chris stood frozen as well. He didn't use the opportunity to twist the knife further. Instead, he looked like his soul was ripped in half, his eyes filled with pain and re