Theo POV
“Clear”, I whisper, but I know they can hear me through the communication system we have with each other. I can feel something is off here, and I just can’t put my finger on it to figure out what it is. I get out of the room I am in and walk down the corridor opening another door slowly and quietly and checking to be clear as well.
“Clear”, I say again.
“Clear”, I hear Elliot say. I close my eyes for a second. I know this house. I am up in this house, but it was sold many years ago. I look around at the room that used to be mine. Now it is empty and with the wallpaper already falling off. I run my fingers through the wall and close my eyes.
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“Come here, child”, I hear my dad calling. I run down the corridor into his office, and he is sitting behind his desk with a gun on top. I stop near the door as soon as I see it.
“Close the door”, he says and slowly, I turn arou
Everly POVI am just finishing braiding my hair when I hear a commotion in the house. I know Theo is back, but why hasn’t he messaged me? “Quick”, I hear Killian’s voice shouting from the end of the corridor. I stand up and open the door to find him ready to knock. He looks pale and tired. I knew the mission was big and would take a few days, and I knew they couldn’t contact us while still there, but I hoped he would tell me he was coming home.“Killian?” I whisper as I see him looking at me. He looks down at the floor, and then his eyes meet mine again. The anticipation of what is happening hits me hard. I look down the corridor, but I can’t see Theo.“Where is Theo?” I ask Killian. He licks his lips as he looks at me.“He is okay. He is down in the doctor's office”, he says, and my heart starts beating fast, Really fast, so fast I thi
Theo POV“Please, no”, I beg of my father as I feel the whip slam against my bare back. Tears flooded down my face. My breathing was heavy. I close my eyes as I feel it touching my skin in the back. My skin opens, giving room to open wounds. I shiver in pain, hugging my knees against my chest when it stops. I keep my eyes down.“You are my greatest disappointment; how can I even call you my son?”, Father shouts at me. I see him standing in front of me. His well-polished brown shoes point at me like a threatening weapon. “You disgust me”, he says before he kicks me on the chin, and I fall back. I feel the blood streaming.“Go get your back sorted with the nurse”, he says. The nurse is a nice old lady, and she gives me chocolate every time I walk in there with wounds that I can’t tell her how I got. I think she knows, but she obviously doesn’t say anything. After all, my father is the right hand to the Ir
Everly POVI understand he doesn’t want to talk to me, but the way he has been behaving is very odd. Every night he has these horrible dreams. I can’t understand a word he says as it’s all in Gaelic, but I can understand that he is distressed, and he is in pain. Every morning he wakes up with pain in his eyes as if the past is torturing him.“I’m sorry, my treasure”, Theo says as he wraps his arms around my bump. Soon we will be able to know if we are having a boy or a girl. I don’t think I want to know, but Theo is anxious, and I think he needs something to distract him from the painful memories he has been having.I keep doing my shirt without looking at him so he can’t see the pain in my eyes. I wish he would trust me with this. I Can tell he is fighting an internal battle, I can tell he is suffering, and all I wish I could do is to send that pain away, to r
Theo POV“Where the fuck is she? She was just here a moment ago”, I bark as I look around the kitchen. Where can she be? We have been looking everywhere in this house, and I can’t find Agnes and my daughter. Fear starts spreading over my body, clouding my mind. I can’t believe she is the one involved in this. I shake my head as I start to feel my hands trembling. I look at Killian, that has now Ashley hugging him.“Go to the panic room, and don’t open it for anyone but us”, Killian says as he cradles Ashley’s face. She nods her head as she kisses him on the lips. I turn around, not wanting to witness the PDA. I start pacing around as Elliot comes running towards the kitchen.“She’s gone. The alarm of the perimeter has been deactivated”, He says while he is out of breath. We all look at each other, and
Everly POVAs I open my eyes, I close them immediately. My head is banging, and opening my eyes means my brain has to work, and it is too painful. I move my hands slowly, and they stop moving as I feel I am restrained by something. I frown as the pain turns into sickness. My baby. Oh God, my baby. I force myself to open my eyes, and I am engulfed in darkness. I can’t see anything, and in a way, I am grateful because I don’t know how I would manage light with the pain I am feeling.I try to move my hands, and this time I can hear chains as I pull on them. I try to sit up, but I can’t. My entire body is on high alert while my head hurts, and my brain is working at a thousand miles. Is this something to do with my brother? Has he done this to me? How would he, anyway? It was someone in the house.Chris was right. They are going to kill me, no, don’t be stupid, Everly, Theo loves you, and he would never do this to you. He would never betray y
Theo POVI pass my hand through my wet hair. I have been in the gym for the past three hours letting all my anger go as I run on the treadmill. We are at the Italian safe house now. Killian is paranoid that someone has infiltrated our house and Ashley is not safe. After I left Christopher’s house, I came straight here, and I was given the bollocks of my life. Killian was not happy, but I thought if anyone knew where Everly and my daughter were was her sick bastard of a brother, but I guess I was wrong. He has no clue where she is, and he is doing everything in his power to find her. I don’t like the fucker, but he is still her brother, and he has motives to try and find her.“Mate, we’ve got something”, Elliot says as he throws me a towel. I wipe my face with it, and I walk to him. My breathing is heavy, and my heart is beating a thousand beats a minute. I look at the screen, and I see it. A
Everly POV“How did you know my mother?”, I ask he looks at the door, and I see a woman walking in. She has a small frame, short blonde hair and blue eyes. She looks like an older version of me.“I heard you were looking for me?”, she says, and I blink a couple of times, trying to process what is happening. I’ve seen her in pictures. I knew she was alive, I felt it, but what is going on here? Why is she here? Why am I here? Why is she involved in this war?“How?”, I asked, still trying to formulate words. She walks towards the opposite side of where I am sitting, and she opens some curtains and then some blinds, and the sun enters the room, forcing me to close my eyes. I was used to the darkness, and the bright light makes my head hurt.“We have a lot to discuss”, she says, offering me a hand. I don’t know if what I am doing is the right thing, but
Theo POV “I can’t just do nothing. We know where she is. Why are we still standing here?” I ask as I look at Killian. He reads the letter once again, and his eyes meet mine. “Because it would be reckless, it would be stupid to just invade a fortress”, Killian says, and I shake my head. “You’re fucking wrong. I need to get my wife back”, I say, and she walks to me, resting both his hands on my shoulders. “You need to calm the fuck down. She is okay, she is healthy, and she is with her fucking mother”, he says, and I can’t help but laugh. “Her mother died years ago. That woman is just an egg donor, Everly has nothing in common with her, Everly doesn’t even know her, she is not safe there”, I shout, and he takes one step back. “I can’t have you fucking everything over. She is the safe end of th