AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“They’re not filthy!” I shouted. “And I happen to like them. It was me who kissed them first.”
A harsh slap fell on my cheek, the strike so sudden and sharp, all I could do was stare at my brother with wide eyes.
“I knew it was a mistake to let Dad take care of you.”
I slowly touched my stinging cheek, hardly able to believe my brother hit me. Callum always doted on me. He was intensely protective of me, even bordering on being overbearing when it came to me. How could he hurt me?
Tears slowly gathered in my eyes. We were seeing each other after nearly five years and this was the way he was treating me.
There was a ten-year age gap between Callum and me. I always looked up to him and followed him around the house as a child.
He looked the same despite the years we spent apart. How could his personality change so drastically? I never remembered him being so cruel and impulsive.
A remorseful expression came over him. “I’m sorry, Lucy,” he said, drawing me into a hug. “It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have left you alone these past years. It’s the only reason those hyenas came sniffing at you.”
My anger rose and I pushed him away. “They’re my friends!”
“They’re nothing, sweetheart. Like it or not, they can never be your friends. Boys like them are only fit to lick the soles of your shoes. Nothing more.”
“I’m going to tell Dad,” I threatened.
A manic grin came over him. “Dad? Haven’t you heard already? He was in an accident this morning, sweetheart.”
“What?”
“It doesn’t look like he’ll live much longer,” Callum said crassly. “From now on, you’ll be living under my rule, sweet sister. No one’s going to separate us again.”
A chill went through me.
How could Callum talk this way about our father? How could he change so drastically over the years he spent overseas? It was like meeting a stranger with my brother’s face.
Tears rolled down my cheeks. I was already panicking about John, Rafael, and Danny, but now, all my thoughts drifted to my dad. I couldn’t believe no one informed me about his accident.
“Let’s go home,” said Callum in a suddenly sweet voice. He wrapped his arms around my shoulders and dragged me alongside him. “We have so much catching up to do.”
“What about John and his brothers?” I asked. “Can you tell your men to let them be?”
“You’re still thinking about them?” A cold, cruel expression marred my brother’s handsome face. “Things are more serious than I thought.”
“Please, Callum—”
“You’ll never see them again,” he said in a deceptively calm voice but the underlying threat in his tone didn’t go unnoticed by me.
“Please, Cal. They’re really good guys.”
Callum didn’t say a word to me but his cruel, calculating expression told me it was already too late. He’d already made up his mind about them.
Hurt and sadness washed over me. All I could do was hope Dad would get better soon and make sure John, Rafael, and Danny weren’t punished too harshly by Callum. He was the only one who could control my brother.
3
Leon
Men in black suits dragged me and my brothers away from Lucia. Yakim signaled for us to cooperate and that was the only reason they were able to haul us away from Lucia and her brother.
They took us to a remote corner of the school grounds. Even the thuds of hip-hop music from the auditorium couldn’t be heard here.
Six vans stood nearby. A single look was enough to tell me they were filled with more men.
