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He responded harshly as he pushed the girl away from him and she fell.
“How could you say that to a little child?” Olivia ran to help her child up when she saw some bruises on her arm.
“A little child? As long as she is not a male child, she is considered a bastard!” He spat out.
“What have I done to you? Have I not been a good father to you if you give me a female child? She is useless to me, you can kill her!”
Olivia dug her fingers in her flesh and watched him throw an insult at her. Her whole world felt empty, she could not cry there cause it would give them the satisfaction they wanted.
She held in her tears and held the child up. Her sister walked into the living room along with her male child. Olivia despised the truth that her sister was able to give birth to a more child and she could not!
“Now! that is my MALE grandchild unlike some people ” He carried her sister's baby boy in his arms and snuggled him.
“Father is so happy he gave me blessings and you.......you brought him disgrace! If mother would not have been that kind, you would be in the street, homeless and begging for food!” Her sister's bad mouth rubbed more on Olivia's wound.
She stood in front of them and received all the disdain thrown at her.
Olivia walked out of the living room and to her room. She locked the door and let all her tears out.
Her child blinked at her and spoke.
“Does grandfather not like me? Does he not like little Beatrix? ” She sobbed and embraced her mother, placing her hands on her head and comforting Olivia.
“He loves you so much. It is just that he is in a bad mood today. Stay in the room when I come back, I will make you the biggest brownie in the world!” She said and pecked little Beatrix and left the room.
Beatrix came down from the bed when she heard the door trying to open.
“Aunty, my mother is not around ”
“You mean that bastard? Here, take all her stuff out!” She instructed the heavy-looking men inside the room.
They held all of Olivia's properties and carried them out of the room until it was bare.
“Where are you taking my mother's things to?” Beatrix asked curiously as she tried to stop Olivia's sister from leaving the room.
“And why should I answer a bastard's child? From today onwards, Olivia does not belong to this family! My father has signed the documents and disowned her!”
She told the child although she knew she did not understand a word she said.
“Does that mean that I am not grandpa's little Beatrix?”
“You were never my father's little Beatrix! You are a bastard!” She rolled her eyes, walked out of the room, and locked her inside.
“Open, please!” Beatrix pleaded as the room door handle broke
“Where is my child?!” Olivia grabbed her sister's neck and with every grip, she tightened it making her sister beg for breath.
She was furious. Her child was missing and not in the room.
“Let me go! ” She wailed for help as she struggled from her grip.
“What are you doing, Olivia! Do you want to kill your sister?” Her father who also heard the cry for help ran fast to the place.
“It is better she dies than continues to live. Nuisances are to be exterminated!”
“Are you crazy?! She is your blood!”
Her father tried to persuade her but failed.
“Blood?! What a bluff. She never treated me as her blood. She stole my boyfriend, got me expelled for stealing money from the principal's office, and bullied me. Is that what a blood sister does?!”
Her anger multiplied by a hundred as she gripped it more harshly allowing her fingers to dig into her sister's throat.
“Those things are in the past, Olivia!”
“Past? Is that how I am to you? A past? You never cared a fucking dime about me or my child and threw the whole love to her and her child and what did I get from you all? HATE AND DISDAIN!”
“Calm down, Olivia!” He screamed out her name when he saw her gradually losing breath and consciousness.
“You either get my child out for me or she leaves the motherfucking face of the earth!”