50

"39, 40, 41, 42, now tell me Celestia, am I still the woman who seduced a man?"

A loud sound of a whip snapping can be heard all throughout the room, Celestia is barely conscious, beads of sweats are forming all over her face, the maids made her change in a white cloth having her back bare to every hit she takes, tons of blood is oozing from her milky skin.

A small groan can be heard from the beauty but not a response, never a response even when her flesh is being torn away slowly.

Everyone is silently praying for Celestia's submission to the queen, they can't help but wonder where did the filial half daughter go?

Celestia although in the weak state possessed determination in her eyes, it's burning. She will not give up nor say sorry to a woman who had done evil deeds...

43, 44, 45...

"You thick-headed child, I will bleed you to death! No response eh?" Marie said as she continues whipping Celestia's back, she is still seething from anger but it slowly disperses as she sees the pain in Celestia's face.

They will never know that Celestia has been planting all the misdeeds they have done, it is the first time she talked back yet look at how far her stepmother went to 'discipline' her, it is just a facade, an excuse to hurt her, who will protect a woman considered to be the one in the wrong?

Throwing all her biological mother's things is one thing, killing all her pets is another, making her life miserable, having no friends and controlling her every move is a third but after recently knowing that her stepmother is the reason for her grandfather's and Veronica's death made her secretly hold a grudge towards that cunning woman.

Celestia's pushing her limits every family meeting so that they will not see her anger, her torment, the arrival of Adam made her forget momentarily but like a nightmare, it now hunts her, now that her father is gone.

She tried to turn a blind eye to this but she can't anymore.

"49, 50!" the maid with a bob cut counted, it is finally over!

Celestia is almost lifeless when the whipping is done, her lips pale, her back is red and everything is dim in her eyes, she saw her mother smirking, her sister looking slightly worried and Anna...Anna who is running towards her, supporting her from completely slumping on the floor.

"Celestia! Wake up" then everything went black, she made it up to 50.