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2021-03-03 20:40:47Belle sat up in bed, using the buttons on the side to adjust the positioning as the nurse had shown her.
The book, white with a pentacle on the cover, described the basics of witchcraft in terms even a layman could understand. Her older sister had been kind enough to drop it off, along with a change of clothing and a box of Thornton's continental—her favourite chocolates.
According to this book, the spell Damien cast on her would be returned to him threefold.
'I can't wait,' she thought. 'I'm going to make him suffer through the same torment he inflicted on me.'
She pictured him on his knees, crawling after her, being forced to take cold baths, starved, and whipped. It gave her no real pleasure other than the sweet satisfaction of vengeance.
When he appeared in the doorway, she wasn't surprised to see him, smiling like a dimwit with a bouquet of wildflower
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Sammy cracked his knuckles as he waited at the school gate for the bell. Both his mother and sister hated this habit, so when they weren't around it became worse."You'll get arthritis," Mike warned.Sammy flashed him a sour look. "Spell arthritis."He felt a buzz of satisfaction as Damien chuckled and Mike's cheeks reddened. It was cruel, picking on the boy's lack of academic ability, and a rather cheap shot by all accounts. Still, it was nice to be the bully rather than the victim.Damien had his slave girl on a leash as usual. The other students had almost completely stopped gawking and commenting on it. Poor Belle was just part of the school scenery now, like the kid with the skin condition and the guy with the bright ginger afro.Sensing his attention, she looked up with misty, dead eyes. Her cheeks were drawn and pale, as though Damien had been starving her. He noticed how
