My grip on his trousers tightens, his expression stoic as he stares down at me and I have no idea what he must be thinking.
"I beg you, save me from that man." I cry placing my head on his legs."Little red.. Come out, come out wherever you are. Come out dang it!" He roars from somewhere behind us and I gasp, crawling forward trying to put as much distance between us.He turns around and stares at me as I move backwards in fear, my back making contact with a wall and preventing me from going further."If he finds me, he would surely kill me this time. I can't let him find me. Please help me!" I let the tears flow freely from my face. Why wouldn't he help me? Why was he just staring at me?He cocks his head, staring at me before he walks off with his men behind me.When he gets out of sight, my sobs gets louder and I cry my heart out.He'd kill me when he finds me, I should just come to terms with it. I couldn't escape him, I can't escape from him.Pulling my knees to my chest, I place my head in between my knees with my arms wrapped around then.I would just wait for him to get me, I wouldn't fight him hopefully he wouldn't punish me much.My head starts spinning as my eyes blur.I feel sleepy, maybe I should sleep a bit when I wake up I might be back in my cage.Loud footsteps draws closer to me, but I don't bother raising my head, I know he found me."Come here, little one." He carries me bridal style and I hold his neck for support.He is probably planning the different ways he can use to torture me."I'm sorry I tried to run away. Please don't hurt me." I mumbled, my eyes feeling heavy so I couldn't open it.He doesn't say anything but he keeps walking."I'm… sorry.." I say once more, fighting the sleep that threatened to render me unconscious."Please don't hurt me…""You're tired, sleep." His voice cuts me short.That does not sound like HIM, and he feels so warm. Why do I feel safe close to him now?I didn't think much as I stopped fighting the will to sleep, welcoming the darkness.*Santino Saint D'Angelo's POV*"How did they know we would be here?" I asked my men, watching their faces one by one to see their reaction.The business deal I was meant to sign today failed because of a snitch, and one of them here was the snitch.I watched Lawless as his eyes darts around, finding focus on anything but my face. Lawless has been with me since we were kids. His real name was obviously not Lawless, it was a nickname that was given to him and it stuck."Law?" I call his name and his eyes darts to me before he looked else where.I pray he wasn't the one that snitched, I pray to God that Lawless wasn't the traitor amongst us."How did they know we would be here?" I repeat my question staring at him intently."H-how would I know?" He stuttered.Damn it. His stuttering gave him away."You have no idea how Christian found out about a deal that only the people standing here knew about?" I ask waiting to see his reaction.Christian was my sworn enemy and the leader of a rival mafia.He came to disrupt our tradingl at the exact moment we were about to finalize it.And I was pissed."Law, do you remember what Uncle Murphy said to you once?" I ask him, twirling my gun on my palm.He shook his head, and I smile at him."He said you should never lie cause you give yourself out the moment you do." I hold the gun, pointing it at him."Now I'm asking, why did you tell Christian about our plans?" I ask him and he starts laughing not even bothering to plead for forgiveness.I clutch the gun tighter as I stared at him in anger.He was one of my trusted men, and he went ahead and betrayed me."I guess I don't have to continue with this charade." He says, smirking at me."Why?" I ask wanting to know why he betrayed me, why was he working with Christian."Why? You ask. Well obviously because he pays better…." He starts but i cut him short."This was all because of money? If you had asked for a higher pay I wouldn't have hesitated to give it to you then why…" He cuts me short with a glare."Don't cut me short and listen. Christian doesn't boss me around like he do. He doesn't treat me like I'm some sort of minion like you do."I stared at him in disbelief as he gave his reason for betraying me.I treated him like a brother, I treated him better than my own brother and he comes to say I treated him like a minion?"Kill me if you dare." He takes a step forward, placing his forehead on the gun and holding it in place."Shoot me. You can't right? You wouldn't dare shoot me. You can't cause you are a pus.."Bang.I pull the trigger without hesitation and watch as he falls down dead.'Don't get attached to someone, so when the time to kill them comes you can do it without hesitation'That was the only thing taught by my father that I still put to use.My attention snaps to the figure running towards us and Micheal instantly raises his gun to shoot but I stop him.Her red hair was the first thing I noticed, then her mismatched eyes and the freckles scattered all over her face. Her little lips parted as she ran towards us. I couldn't help but think of how fragile and pure she looked, begging me to taint her and break her.She looses balance the moment she gets to us, holding my leg for support."Help me please" She pleads, and her hold on my leg tightens.I stare down at her, deviod of any emotions.I could feel my men's eyes on me, they were watching to see what I would do."I beg you. Save me from that man." She pleads placing her head on my legs.That man? What man? Another wife getting abused by her husband? But she looks to young to be married. It's not like it was any of my business though.I should just leave her here and go."Little red! Come out dang it!" I hear a man roar and she flinches, shaking in fear.She pushes past me, pushing herself backwards trying to escape.Just what did he do to her to make her this scared?"If he catch me, he would…" I didn't bother listening to the rest of what she says. Signalling my men, they following me walking towards the men that were screaming for her to come out."Don't you think you are being to loud?" I ask cleaning my ears with my fingers."If she wanted to come out, she would have been out by now. Don't you think?" I ask them, raising my eyes to glare at them."Alright. Look here pretty boy…." I didn't let him complete his sentence, silencing him with a bullet in his head. The rest of his people follows after, their bodies dropping down dead."Boss one of them escaped." Michael says about to go after him, but I stop him.I have a feeling we would be meeting again soon.The sound of birds chirping combined with the rays of the sun, which came in through the window, falling on my face woke me up.Groaning, I flip my body to the other side of the bed to avoid the sun rays touching me.Hold on. Sunrays? Birds chirping? My room doesn't have any window to let the sunrays in.I felt confused as I thought about this, trying to remember all that happened last night.I ran away from Daniel's house, then I ran into an alley where Daniel caught me once again.Memories of last night floods my head and I am filled with a new sense of terror.Gasping, I shoot up from the bed, looking around to figure out where I was. Daniel caught me! He'd surely punish me now.. He would…"Glad to see you're awake." A deep voice that clearly did not belong to Daniel said and my eyes shoots to the corner of the room where a man sat, his face not visible."W..wh.. who are you?" I stammered out of fear, pushing back to the head of the bed. Where was I? This is clearly not my room. D
Natalie stares at me in horror with her hands covering her lips in shock.Why was she staring at me that wa… Oh.I finally realized I was standing before her, naked and vulnerable at the moment, my scars completely visible to her.I stare at her silently, waiting for what she would do, i waited to see that look of disgust on her face, just like everyone else that saw my body.I am shocked when she breaks out in a sob, and I stare at her confused on what to do.With tears in her eyes, she walks to me wrapping her arms around me and pushing my face into her chest.My heart rate increases because of the physical contact between us, my body itching to get her off me."I'm not going to ask you what happened, I'm not going to make you tell me what happened. I'm going to wait for you to feel safe around me and tell me what happened." She says still holding me tightly.Even if she had asked now, I don't want to tell her."You do realize your holding a naked female right?" I ask her still stan
After he left I found out he was Natalie's older brother Santino, but everyone calls him Saint. He was obviously not a Saint like his name suggested. He has killed more people than I could count and he has ruined the lives of many more. He was the devil himself.Well, that's what Natalie said, not that I cared about that, I need to stay as far away from him as i possibly could, until i run away from here. But where do I go after I run?"Hellooo, earth to Minny?" Natalia snapped her fingers at in my face, snapping me out of my reverie."Come on, start eating." She urged me, taking a bite from her food which was placed before her.I drop my gaze down to the plates staring back at me, glancing at her once more before I push the plate away. She looks at me, her brows raised in confusion."I'm not hungry." I murmur, an obvious lie. But it's not like she would figure out I'm lying….My stomach grumbles loudly at that exact moment making my face red in embarrassment.I look away from the tab
Morning came by faster than I had expected. I couldn't sleep after all that happened and Natalie stayed in my room for the rest of the night."Hurry up, hurry up!" Natalie urged me as she walked excitedly down the staircase.It was just breakfast, why was she so excited?Initially things were awkward between us, but soon enough we started talking about ourselves.Well more like she talking about herself while i listened.So the person we saw in the kitchen last night was her older brother Luca, who was younger than Santino.It was just Santino, Luca and Natalie. Their parents were dead and Santino owned everything around here.I felt eyes on me and I turned around to find one of Santino's men watching me intently, the conversation I had with Natalie last night coming to mind."Who are all these men on suits?" I asked her immediately they all left the room"Santino's men." She said taking a bite from the burger she ordered one to get her.Santino's…men? What does she mean.Natalie sees
We all sat in silence after Santino stormed off, no one wanting to say anything first.The sound of cutleries against plates resumed and Natalie and Luca goes back to their meals like that didn't just happen.They were accustomed to it.I look at the both confused on what to do.What Luca did was wrong, but I don't think he would accept it. I wonder what happened between them three, what did he do to the person that gave the name to him? But isn't that their mother? Or was it that father?"Micini for your own safety, never call him Santino again. Ever. We all call him Saint, so you should too." Natalie tells me without looking up from her food." I don't see what the issue is though. Is he feeling bad about what he did to her? Does that name remind him so much of her that he refused to go by the name??" Luca asked. I looked at him, my eyes widening in shock when I see he was clutching the knife tightly and his hands were bleeding."If you want to cut yourself up, do it where no one c
I was walking down the staircase unsure of what to do.Natalie had left for college earlier, and Luca went off to work.So it was just me here. Each of Santino's men I walked past watched me like they were waiting for me to do something, slip up and show the real reason I was here.Ignoring them, I went into the kitchen. I was bored and had nothing to do and Luca told me to make sure I ate by 1pm and it's fifteen minutes past.I was browsing through the pantry with a cookie in my mouth, looking for something to eat."What are you doing?" Santino asked from behind me and I stilled, cookie still in my mouth. I remained still, hoping that he would maybe leave or something if I don't answer to him."I asked a question." He says and I could tell he was holding back from snapping at me, the irritation evident in his tone.Straighting my back, I slowly turned around meeting his dark eyes."I-I…" I stuttered unable to form any coherent sentence.I felt nervous around him, but why?"You-you..
"I-I am sorry. I didn't mean…." I stuttered my spoon falling from my hands as they shake in fear.Why was he reacting this way? It's just a name isn't it? If he doesn't like it he should say he doesn't like it. Why is he-"You should learn to mind your business." He snapped at me. His reaction a complete opposite of how he was yesterday, I see him gradually putting back the walls he let down earlier." I'm so-" I reach out to him but he pulls his arm away before I could touch him, still glaring at me."What's that delicious thing I smell… Oh." Natalie walks into the kitchen, stopping when she sees us both. Santino glances at her, but he doesn't do more than that. "I feel the tension here and I'm about to back away slowly… " She trailed off as she starts backing away, retracing her steps when she came here.I give her a pleading look and she sighs, walking over to us. "You're scaring her. Stop it." She tells him as she sits beside me, putting her arm around me."Is she a child? Huh Na
A knock on my door causes me to look up, making me finally move from the curled postion I've been in for the past few hours.I wonder who it is, I'm not expecting anyone to come see me. Maybe they came to finally throw me out of the house, they all seemed really angry then. I kept staring at the door expecting the person to come in because the door wasn't locked.When the person knocks a second time, I am forced to voice out a ‘come in’, my eyes still on the door waiting to see who was at my door.Slowly the door opens, and Saint walks into the room slowly, his shoes clicking against the tiled floor. He sweeps the room with his eyes and his lips form a frown when he doesn't see me.“Micini?" He calls out, his voice sounding cold and yet my name coming from his lips sends some sort of heatwave down my body.Come to think of it, I don't think he has ever said my name.“I'm down here." I say, barely audible. I don't think he heard me. I'm about to clear my throat and talk a bit louder