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Darkness Surrounding

Over my dead body!

Matt’s POV

My vision instantly turned red as Gates told me about Pagano’s plan for his daughters. Never in my life had I ever felt this outraged and disgusted with another human being. I was so angry that I could feel the vein in my neck pulse with venom as the raged flooded my veins, the urge to kill growing stronger by the second. It took every ounce of restraint that I had not to pull out my gun and go kill that bastard in his sleep.

What kind of sick fuck groomed his daughter to be sold off to highest fucking bidder? It just wasn’t humane, and there was nothing fucking right about this situation. I would make sure that Pagano never saw his daughters again because that bastard didn’t deserve parental rights in the first place. Hell if he was doing this, what other kind of sick twisted shit had the girls endured in their imprisonment at ‘home’.

“He planned to sell his daughter to some douchebag as a fucking item?!” I demanded, really hoping that I had misunderstood Gates. No wonder Emery was so fucking angry about everything. I would be too if my parents were trying to sell me to some asshat for money.

“No, his daughters… I don’t know if Jolie told you, but it sounded like both of them. He just found an interest in Em first and Jolie would be next,” he clarified and I fucking lost control.

I growled and slammed my fist as hard as I could on my desk, cracking the wood, but I was so infuriated that I couldn’t feel anything except rage. I wanted to kill that bastard and make him pay for all of this. I swear if any other guy laid a hand on what was mine, I would murder them.

“That fucking bastard! I’m gonna fucking rip his head off when I see him next! No one is touching what is mine! NO ONE!” I raged, my vision pure red now. There was no way Jolie was going anywhere now. She was fucking mine and I wouldn’t let her be subject to that bullshit! She didn’t deserve any of the shit she had been through.

“We cannot hand them back to that asshole!” Gated agreed with a nod. At least we were seeing eye-to-eye on things again.

“Oh fuck no, he won’t get a hand on the girls,” I vowed as the pieces started to fall together in my head. No wonder Pagano had the girls’ virtue checked and made them get those birth control implants! He wanted them to be worth even more! I felt like I was going to be sick. “I’m not handing them over to an even worse fate… now this all makes sense… The tests, the implant… the maintaining the innocence, it all makes sense now!”

“What are you talking about, Shads?” Gates asked, pulling me from my thoughts. Shit, he didn’t know about all the other crap Pagano had put his girls through. But how would he? He apparently was following my rule, which was very surprising. Gates hated rules and I assumed he would be the first one to break it.

“Jolie told me her father did extra test and took measurements to keep them away from men, as well as checking if they are still innocent, probably to sell them to a higher price… Fuck! This all makes sense! That goddamn prick!” I explained, running my hands over my face while Gates appeared to be processing what I told him. It was fucking sick!

“I’m not letting Emery go back to that prick!” Gats finally said, standing up. I narrowed my eyes, still trying to calm my anger.

“We won’t… we will have to find a way. We need to think about a way to get out of this, to get them out of this mess…” I muttered, my thoughts moving right back to Jo. I wouldn’t let her step foot back into that house, not ever for a second, if that were what her fate entailed.

“I gotta talk to Jo about this,” I muttered. “She hasn’t told me about her father’s plans about her being sold! I can’t believe she would keep something like that from me! Didn’t she think this was something we ought to know? Fuck!” I mumbled, my brain racing in thirty different directions. How could she not tell me about this? Well, now I wanted answered from her.

I quickly stood up, only to see Gates still standing in my office. “Go get the guys and Emery, meeting here in 30, its high priority. If they are asleep, wake them, if they got other things to do, I don’t fucking care, get them here!” I yelled before storming off down the hallway toward my room.

I couldn’t believe that sick fucking bastard! Putting his own daughters up for sale and conditioning them their whole entire lives to get a higher asking price! What the fuck was wrong with that man?! I swear if I ever go the opportunity, I would kill him with my bare hands. I would squeeze his neck, watching him suffer and scream, his face turning blue as he begged me to let go. Oh, I would enjoy making him suffer just like his daughters had their entire lives! Fuck I hated that prick even more than before!

Though I still didn’t understand why didn’t Jo tell me any of this. Was she trying to keep me from freaking out? Well it wasn’t fucking working because somehow, Gates got the information out of her little sister. I would have to ask him later how he found out, but that was beside the point right now.

Was Jolie protecting her douchebag father? Did she really think he had her best interests at heart? Fuck, just thinking about it made me even angrier and sick to my stomach.

By the time I reached my room at the end of the hall, rage was coursing through my veins. I was beyond pissed and disgusted by the situation. Not to mention that I wanted answers and I wanted them fucking now!

I entered the code and burst through the door only to find Jo sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for me in her underwear. My eyes instantly landed on her bulging cleavage in that black lace bra and those gorgeous legs that went on for miles. What I wouldn’t give to throw her down on the bed and have a taste of her, but I couldn’t think about that right now. I had more important business to discuss.

“Fuck, Jo…” I groaned, running my hands over my face. Damn she was killing me, if the boner I was trying to hide in my jeans was any indicator. I couldn’t talk to her like this! “Please go put one of my shirts on. We need to talk,” I grumbled, mentally kicking myself.

I had been waiting all night to have her to myself, but every time we had a moment alone, someone fucking interrupted us. And now I had to talk to her about her douchebag father! We were supposed to have a fun night but it looked like we were going to get anything but that. Fucking hell, sometimes I hated my job and the predicament we were in. Why couldn’t Jolie and I have met like normal people?

Jo frowned and quickly moved to pull a shirt over her head, worry written all over her face. “What’s wrong?” Jolie asked, moving over to me as I sat on the edge of the bed with a sigh. She sat down on my lap and put her hands on my cheeks as her eyes locked with mine. She looked concerned and I hated to worry her. I just wished she would have fucking told me what her father was going to do with them. Wasn’t she concerned at all about it? “Was it Gates? What did he want?”

I scoffed and looked away from her, still not believing that a father would willingly sell off his own flesh and blood. What a sick fuck. “Gates just told me something really interesting about your father,” I said, earning a raised brow and look of confusion from Jo. Oh come on babe, don’t make me call you out on it. I really didn’t want to fight with her. Hell, that was the last thing I wanted.

“Like what?” she asked nervously.

“Gates fucking told me what your father was planning to do with you and your sister when you returned home,” I snapped, coming right out with it. I carefully moved Jo off my lap and began pacing the room, anger washing over me again.

“What was he planning?”

“Come on, Jo,” I huffed, running my hands over my head in frustration. “Isn’t there something important that you want to tell me?” My eyes were pleading with her but she just looked utterly confused.

“N-no…? Matt what is all this about?”

“So you didn’t plan on telling me your father was going to sell you and your sister to his business partners?” I raged, clenching my fists as I paced the room. “Don’t you think that was information we should have known?! Though it all makes perfect fucking sense with trying to keep your virtue, the implants, and god knows what else that fucker did to you!”

I looked back over at Jolie to see that her face had instantly paled and she looked like she was going to be sick. “No…” she said after a minute. “He wouldn’t do that. I don’t know where you heard that but it’s not true.” Jo shook her head and crossed her arms over her chest.

Wait, was she still trying to protect him? “So your sister made it up?” I asked with a raised brow, starting to get confused.

“Emery told you that?” Jolie’s eyebrows shot up, her voice squeaking lightly. “When? She never said anything about it to me… No…there’s no daddy would do that. It has to be some kind of misunderstanding,” Jo continued, worry written all over her features. It was quickly becoming clear that Jo had no idea what her father had been planning. “That cant be true… he wouldn’t…but it’s not like Emery to lie…”

“She’s not lying, babe,” I said softly, pulling her into the circle of my arms. “Come here,” I placed her onto my lap again and slowly ran my fingers through her hair. “She told Gates that on the night of the ball, your father took her into a room full of his business men and told her one of them would be her husband. From what I gathered from the conversation, he was planning on auctioning her hand in marriage to the highest bidder…” I stopped and took a deep breath, trying to control my temper. “And you were going to be next…”

Jolie shuddered in my arms and hid her face in my chest. “Oh my god…” she breathed. I could feel the tears on my arm as I pulled her close. “It all makes sense… everything that he’d ever done to us… all the restrictions… the diet… the clothes… oh my god…” she cried. “Did he even love us?”

I held her tight as she cried in my arms, slowly rocking her back and forth and petting her long dark hair. “Shh… babe… I promise I wont let anything happen to you,” I vowed, my heart breaking seeing her this way. “You wont be going back there, I promise.”

“But what about, Em?” Jo cried into my chest. I hated to see Jo like this it broke my heart. I would kill her father for making her go through all this.

“Shh… don’t worry babe, we won’t let you or your sister go back there,” I soothed, kissing her forehead. “We will find a way,” I gently pulled her chin up so she would look at me. “I promise, you and your sister will be safe.”

“Why didn’t she tell me about any of that?” Jo continued, shaking her head as the tears rolled down her cheek. “How could she keep that all inside? We tell each other everything…” Jo suddenly had a look of realization flash in her eyes. I really hoped she wasn’t feeling guilty about not telling Emery about our relationship. That was something completely different.

“I bet she was trying to protect you,” I sighed. I was starting to understand why Emery was so angry about everything, and given her life and these new circumstances, it all made sense. I felt bad for the girl. “But neither of you have to worry any more. You are part of the Avenged family now and I will make sure you and your sister are both protected.”

“How?” Jo asked, looking at me with worry. “How are you going to keep both of us away from my father’s prying eyes forever? If he is capable of selling Emery and I then god knows what else he could do!” And she wasn’t lying. Pagano was a very dangerous man and it would take a lot of expert planning to keep them, but Jolie was worth the risk.

“And what about Emery? She’ll probably want to stay with me… or at least she would have…” Jo looked so guilty and I wished I could take away her pain. A girl as beautiful and kindhearted as her shouldn’t be sad. “But she seems miserable here… What she needs is to be with someone who cares about her. Someone that will make her happy and take her away from all this crap… She needs someone like you in her life, Matt,” she finished looking up into my eyes with a longing look.

I nodded and gently kissed Jo’s lips. God I was so in love with this girl that it wasn’t even funny. I didn’t even care that she made me weaker. There was no way in hell I was giving up this feeling; it just felt too damn good. “We will make sure she gets a happy ending too, Jo,” I vowed. “But first we need to go meet with the guys to make a plan.” I took Jo’s hand and carefully lead her down the hall toward the office. “We were supposed to be in the office five minutes ago for a meeting.”

“Is Em coming?” Jo asked, looking up at me with those stunning blue eyes. “She should be part of this discussion too… and could I possibly talk to her when we’re done?”

“Yes, I told Gates to bring her,” I replied with a light squeeze of her hand. “And if everything goes according to plan, I don’t see why you couldn’t talk. Maybe now that she’s had some time to cool off she will finally see that we belong together.”

“I really hope so,” Jo smiled before standing up on her tiptoes to place a kiss on my lips. The kiss quickly intensified and I closed my eyes, feeling a surge of excitement as our tongues danced. Jo tasted so damn good and I couldn’t get enough of her. I quickly slid my hand up to her hair, tangling my fingers in the long silky strands. I felt a sure of energy flow through me as Jo melted into my embrace. I needed more. This woman was as bad as a drug and the addicting kind.

“The love birds are here!” Jimmy screamed as the office door flew open, interrupting our moment. “Aww… Shads and Jolie sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N—”

“Shut up Rev and get their asses in here,” Gate interrupted as I slowly pulled away from Jo looking into her eyes. I knew that from looking into those hypnotizing blue orbs that everything was going to be okay—we were going to get through this together. “We’ve got shit to get through before three A.M.”

“’bout time you showed up,” Zack teased as I lead Jolie into the office by the hips and set her down on my lap behind the desk. “Gates said it was important.”

“It is. Gates will you fill them in?” I asked, my eyes turned to Gates to see him sitting close to the little blonde, his arm draped lazily around the back of her chair. He looked on edge while Emery wasn’t making eye contact with anyone. She was staring at the floor, twisting her hands in her lap and chewing on her bottom lip. Well that was a side of her I hadn’t seen before. Was she nervous to be in my office with all of my men?

I watched her for a moment, taking in her demeanor and appearance as Gates started to fill in everyone on the Pagano situation. She was undoubtedly beautiful and had those same blue eyes as Jo, but in my opinion, she wasn’t anything compared to her sister. Though as I watched her, I noticed that both Jolie and Emery had a lot of the same mannerism. Just the way the little blonde pulled her knees to her chest or chewed on her bottom lip reminded me a lot of Jolie when we first met.

My eyes slowly moved over to Gates as he spoke, noticing his fingers gently running over Emery’s shoulder after she pulled her knees to her chest. Well that was something I had never seen from him before. Was there something going on between those two? Especially since Gates had never been this patient with a woman in all his life, let alone comforting. Had I missed something here?

“Are you fucking kidding me?” Zack raged when Gates was done. “What a sick perverted fuck!” Jo’s body stiffened in my arms and I gently moved my hand over her back. I couldn’t even imagine what she must be going through in all of this.

“We can’t let that happen,” Jimmy agreed shaking his head. “We’ve got to do something,” he looked utterly disgusted.

“That’s why we called the meeting,” I stated, sitting up a little taller in my chair. Though I couldn’t help but feel a lot more relaxed from Jo’s touch. “We obviously cant return the girls to Pagano, so we need a plan on how to keep them and get what we need in return,” I explained as I saw Emery roll her eyes in my peripheral vision.

“As you know we are on contract with Pagano right now to help find the girls. The Rev delivered some security videos to him tonight that made it appear that the Vipers have Jolie. But as part of our contract we will need to eventually return the girls to him to get the rest of our territory back,” I explained as the other nodded.

“But is getting that territory back worth the risk of losing the girls?” Zack asked and Gates nodded in agreement, looking at Emery out of the corner of his eye. What the hell was going on there? Had he grown attached to the little blonde?

“No… but we still have to find some way to get out of our contract with Pagano without him catching on that we have his daughters,” I said, feeling Jo’s hand gently rub up and down my thigh. Why did this have to be so fucking hard? “So how could we break out of the contract without him getting suspicious?”

The room fell silent as we all looked at each other, trying to come up with a solution. The only problem was that no one had ever gotten out of a contract with Pagano without completing it’s requirements and lived to tell the tale.

“I don’t know if it’s even possible,” Johnny finally replied with a frown. “If we back out, he’ll know something is up.”

“But what if we pin the blame on the Vipers?” Zack asked, leaning forward in his chair, his elbows on his knees. “Since we already sent Pagano the tape that makes it look like they have the girls, couldn’t we use that to our advantage? There is no way Pagano’s not going to take his men and go storming after Vipers now, right?”

“Actually,” Johnny interrupted. “I overheard tonight that Pagano is going to send us after them to get the girls back… He thinks we need to really earn our pay.”

“That fucker,” I grumbled, my hand tightening on Jo’s. “He’s always got some kind of stipulation to every damn thing!”

“What if we stage the girl’s deaths?” Jimmy asked, causing everyone to turn and look at him. “You know, use the initial ransom that the Vipers put out that Pagano refused to pay and ‘kill’ the girls as punishment?” Jimmy shrugged. “We could take pictures of them looking dead with makeup and everything and send them to Pagano along with a box of ashes or something?”

Jolie cuddled closer to my chest and I held her tight. She looked so worried in all of this but I had to make her see that she had nothing to worry about. We would take care of everything.

“That just might be crazy enough to fucking work,” Gates said, pursing his lips as he thought about it. “Short Shit could you do some research into the Vipers ransom and find out if we could use it to our advantage?”

“Sure, not a problem,” he said and quickly wrote down a few notes.

“We will have to make sure everything fits on the appropriate time table to make that work,” I added thoughtfully. “It has to be flawless or else Pagano will be onto us.”

“So what are we going to do with the girls after all this?” Zack asked, looking between the Pagano girls. “Obviously Jolie will be staying with us, but what about Emery?”

Emery’s POV

As Jimmy and I laid cuddled up in bed watching some horror movie, I couldn’t stop thinking about our conversation about Brian. What did he mean Brian didn’t realize what he really wanted? Did that mean that they had talk about me? I didn’t know but I wished my stupid heart would stop palpitating when I thought about him. I was an idiot for even thinking that we could have some kind of relationship. It was never going to happen, no matter how much I wanted it too.

Besides, it was only a matter of time until I was shipped back home to my father. No matter what Brian said, I knew that’s where I would end up. Either my father would find us and kill all the Avenged guys or they would trade me back. That’s just the way things works because no one every pulled one over on my father and got away with it. I learned that the hard way.

“Hey, easy now! You’re hurting me!” I cried, trying to pull my hand away from the guard that was dragging me toward my father’s office. Okay, so maybe I had snuck out of the house to try and have some fun like a normal teenager, but this ‘arrest’ by my father’s guards seemed a little bit extreme. “Let go!”

“It’s your father’s orders,” Charles, the leader of the guard said as he basically dragged me up the stairs. He was moving way too fast for me to keep up with in these six-inch heels. “I really wished you hadn’t snuck out, kid.”

“Cant we pretend I didn’t and I’ll promise to never do it again?” I begged, my knee banging against a step as I tripped over my own heels. Okay, so maybe I had a couple of drinks too and had been making out with a very attractive man at the nightclub. But was all this really necessary? I was only sixteen—should I be allowed to live a little?

“I’m sorry Emery, he’s the one who found you missing.” Oh, fuck now I was really in for it.
By the time we reached my father’s office, I had lost both of my shoes and had a badly banged up knee. Not to mention I was pretty sure there was a hickey on my neck from the guy at the club.

“Here she is, Sir,” the guard said, giving me a small shove toward my father. He was standing with his back to me looking out the window, his classical music playing softly in the background. I always hated it but was always forced to listen to it.

“Thank you Charles. Shut the door on your way out,” my father said before slowly turning around and walking to his mini-bar. I stood in the uncomfortable silence as he slowly made his drink and took a few sips, watching me squirm in the middle of the large gold and red decorated room.

I could feel my heart pounding in my chest as he moved to his desk and set his drink down, his dark eyes glaring at me. “Where have you been?” he finally asked, his low voice resonating in the room.

“I-I… I went out with some friends,” I said slowly, twisting my hands in front of me.

“You went out with some friends?” he scoffed, moving towards me. “What friends, Emery? Give me their names.” I knew better than to rat anyone out because he would make sure I never saw any of them again.

When I stayed silent he moved closer to me, examining my appearance. “And what are our rules about leaving the house after dark un-chaperoned?”

“I know, I’m sorry Daddy, but—” My father quickly reached out and roughly grabbed my chin with his hand, squeezing painfully he turned my head to reveal the hickey. I gasped in pain but he only squeezed tighter. “Dad please! I’m sorry!”

“You what, Emery? You know the rules and what happens when you break them,” he growled in my face before pushing me backwards so that I landed rather harshly on the floor. “What the hell where you thinking? You look like a fucking slut!” He bellowed as the tears formed in my eyes. “Did you really think you could pull one over on me?”

“No I just—” The next thing I knew, my father had picked me up off the floor and was holding me by the throat, almost dangling me off the floor. “Well let me tell you something, Emery. No one and I mean fucking no one pulls something over on me. I see fucking everything and I hear everything,” he said, squeezing my throat as I gasped for air. “And if I ever catch you breaking the rules again, I promise that you will never see the light of day again. Do you understand me?”

“Y-y-yes…” I gasped, only able to see black spots in front of my eyes.

“Good, I’m glad we’ve come to an understanding,” he said, dropping me on the floor and not caring how I landed. “You will now have a personal guard with you at all times, and you will be visiting the physician in the morning to make sure no other rules have been broken.” Through my silent tears I watched as my father moved to the door and opened it, afraid of what was on the other side. “Christopher, take Emery to her room and see that she doesn’t leave it for the next five days.”

“AHAHAH!” Jimmy’s maniacal laughter sounded next to me, pulling my mind away from my own thoughts. “Stay away from the stairs! Not the stairs!” he laughed, getting way too much amusement out of a movie that was supposed to be scary. I guess when you lived in a world scarier than the one you were watching it made sense to laugh. “Did you see that Em?”

I nodded and hid my face in his side, trying to stop my mind from wandering back to those amazing brown eyes. The only problem was that every time I closed my eyes, they were all I saw. I really needed to get a grip and just try to suppress my feelings because I knew I shouldn’t feel anything at all towards Brian. It would just be easier to ignore my feelings than to get my hopes up about something that wasn’t going to happen. Though I couldn’t deny how much I longed for Brian to treat me the way that Shadows treated my sister in the kitchen. I hated to admit it, but I was jealous of her relationship.

What the hell was wrong with me? Since when did I want a relationship? Before we were kidnapped, it was the last thing I wanted but now? I couldn’t deny the human desire to feel safe and protected by someone, especially after all this crap I’d been through.

“You alright, Em? You’re not watching the movie…” Jimmy’s voice sounded in my ear and I slowly picked up my head, meeting his big blue eyes.

“I’m fine, just tired,” I lied. Sleeping was the farthest thing from my mind right now. Jimmy gave me a knowing look before he tucked his arm back around me. “Don’t worry blondie, we will figure all this out. Worst comes to worst you can stay with me, alright?”

I sighed and nodded, resting my head back down on his chest just as a loud knock sounded on the door.

“Rev open up!” My heart instantly jumped in my chest when I heard Brian’s voice. “We’ve got a meeting with Shads in 30!” He was back! But wasn’t it early? Was something wrong? Worry started to course through my veins I slowly sat up, watching Jimmy open the door. “Where is she?”

“She’s right over there,” Jimmy said with a small smirk before quickly pushing Brian into the hallway and shutting the door without me seeing him. What the hell were they doing?

I quickly jumped off the bed and padded my way over to the door, hoping to do a little eavesdropping, but unfortunately the door swung back open before I could get there.

“I don’t have time for your shit right now, Rev. We will meet you in Shads office in five minutes,” Brian said charging into the room and knocking me over. Brian quickly reached out and pulled me into his arms, preventing me from falling. “What are you doing sneaking around over by the door?” he asked, his brown eyes staring me down and making my heart flutter. “Was my little princess trying to eavesdrop?”

His little princess? Did he really mean that? “N-no… I was just stretching my legs,” I lied, taking a step back away from him so that I could think clearly. Each time he touched me it resulted in the same response—an outbreak of goose bumps covering my body. “Don’t you have a meeting to go to anyway?” I sighed, pulling away. Why did I keep letting myself fall into these situations?

“Actually you’re coming to the meeting with me,” he said and I snapped back around to face him. My blue eyes locked with his and I felt myself melt slightly under his gaze. Was it just me or was there something different about the way he looked at me right now?

“W-What?” I gapped, looking at him incredulously. “Why?”

“Well princess,” he said, his voice sounding velvety smooth as he guided me over toward Jimmy’s bed. “I talked to Shads and told him about everything and we are meeting to come up with a plan to keep you from going back with your asshole father,” he said and my leapt with excitement. Was he telling me the truth? Was I really going to be able to stay? Did he want me to stay? “I told you I would make good on my promise, didn’t I?”

It all sounded too good to be true, not to mention that Brian was sitting so close to me that I could smell his sweet cologne and a hint of smoke and mint toothpaste. I had to suppress the urge to moan because he smelled so damn good. “So I get to stay?” I whispered, my eyes slowly meeting his again.

“If everything works out, you’ll be stuck with me princess,” he practically growled, wrapping an arm around me and pulling me close. His touch felt so damn good that I couldn’t help but cuddle into his arms. Was it just me or was he hugging me back too?

I knew I shouldn’t get my hopes up or be excited but I couldn’t stop myself. Did this mean he liked and cared about me too? “There’s no way you’re going back to that asshole to be sold off. And what is all this shit about being forced into medical tests and implants?” Brian demanded with a furred brow and my eye grew wide. How did he find out about that? “Why the didn’t you tell me?

“I thought the whole selling your daughter stuff covered it all,” I snapped back though I couldn’t hide the blush on my face. I didn’t really want to talk about how I was forced to go to the gynecologist ever other month or any of the other tests my father required us to get. Though it all made sense after the ball… “How did you find out?”

“It doesn’t matter how I found out,” Brian sighed, looking at me with an unreadable expression. “Why didn’t you tell me?” I didn’t understand why he looked so hurt and confused. “And what the hell did he do to you?”

I opened and closed my mouth a few times, trying to decide how to continue. Was he asking because he cared or because his boss asked him to find out? I bet Jo told Shadows about it all since they were in love. God why was everything with this man so confusing?

I slowly pulled away and stood up, my back to Brian. “Why do you care?” I asked softly. I didn’t want to face him because I was afraid to look and see what was hiding in his eyes.

I heard Brian sigh behind me before the bed creaked with his movement. I could sense him moving around behind me and it wasn’t long before I felt his hands land on my hips, gently pulling me back towards him. “I just want to make sure that you never have to go through any of that again,” Brain said softly, his breath tickling the back of my neck.

“And believe it or not, I do care about your well being and want you to stay someplace where you’ll be happy.”

Notes

Here is the next chapter! Hope you guys liked it! let us know what you think!

Comments

Oh thank his he’s okay! But now Em is not okay. When will this group get a chance to breathe?? Loving it as always ladies!

These cliffhangers are killing me here! Love this story!

Hnybdgr Hnybdgr
7/14/19

Oh god, what’s Matt trying to do now? I support him though, Pagano needs to be punished for treating his daughters like shit.

Holly Holly
4/23/19

Yay!!! They are FINALLY reunited! I’m so happy! But wonder what trouble Matt just got himself into with Pagano. I hope we get to see Jo kick ass and rescue him! As always, I loved the update and i can’t wait for more!

Gah! They still have to get out! Ya killin' me, smalls!!! ;) thx for the update! If Jimmy is hurt I will find you.

violetvictoria violetvictoria
3/16/19