Chapter Seventeen

Such wise words from such a young child they thought but those brief visits kept Alcina strong in her darkest moments. She hated her Aunt and every time she cried herself to sleep as her tummy growled in hunger and her little backside smarted from another spanking she vowed one day she would get her revenge.

As she grew older and grew to big for a spanking Annabella would make her hold her hand out and hit it hard with a ruler then she would be made to repeat her ‘mistake’ until she got it right without thinking. She devised a ‘cross country’ run for the little girl saying she needed to toughen up to the British weather as she always seemed to have a cough and a cold. It never crossed her selfish mind that the reason for that was she kept the poor little girl hungry and freezing, saying it was character building and no good ever came of spoiling a child. Alcina was made to run the ‘cross country’ at least once a week and Annabella always waited for the worse day when the rain was at i