So I have been debating publishing this but I decided to in the end. No excuse for how he treated the triplets but he had his reasons.
Not publishing at 4am for once however this was written mostly last night at 3am/4am.
Also just a little self promotion. I know alot of you read my other books but if you're one of those people who read unwanted twin and didn't continue after the ending. Check out the sequel.
Also if you aren't from my other books, check out the unwanted twin.
After Leo left, she left her room again and headed back down the corridor. She didn't bother knocking she knew he wouldn't anwser. She had seen he never anwsered whenever anyone knocked.
She didn't know what to expect. Maybe Marco throwing knives at a target or him doing something deadly but she didn't expect him to be throwing up.
She suddenly felt very guilty for being angry at him. He was sick and they were just taking care of him.
Marco had gone to the bathroom as soon as Leo left not being able to hide the pain. He knew he had a few hours before his father came up so he raced to the bathroom not bothering to shut the door behind him.
His head snapped up after throwing up when he heard movement. He saw Skye and one look at her had him throwing up again.
All he could see was the eyes of a vunerable 4 year old. His weakness. He couldn't stop them from taking her.
"Are you okay" she dared ask not knowing what to do. She wanted to leave but she felt guilty leaving him like this.
Marco's walls came up after hearing her. He quickly sorted himself out and composed himself. "Why the fuck are you in my room brat" he snapped walking towards her glaring.
"I just...." She didn't know what to say now. Now she knew he wasn't well she couldn't be angry at him.
"Fucking bitch. Get out of my room and never come back. In fact don't even look at me. I don't want to see you looking at me again" he ordered. He couldn't see her eyes again. He wouldn't. He wanted his sister back but she was just a reminder of him.
Skye couldn't help tears fall but she quickly wiped them. She hated weakness. She was being too vunerable in front of them all. It had to stop. She hadnt acted like this in years. She wouldn't let it continue.
"Why do you hate me so much" she asked.
Marco looked away. He didn't hate her but he couldn't look at her without remembering Frank.
"Get the fuck out of my room now" he demanded coldly.
"Fine. I'm sorry we are such an inconvenience to you. Maybe we should just go back to Ohio" she snapped.
"Don't say such words" Marco whispered calming down.
Skye was ready to leave but she turned back to him keeping her head low not wanting to piss him off by looking at him. A week ago he wanted them in Ohio. Had something changed?
"Don't say that ever again " he whispered repeating himself.
Skye noticed the small tremble in his hands.
"Last week you wanted us gone. You wanted us to live with a gang. What's changed" she asked not backing down.
She didn't expect tears to gather in Marco's eyes "I was wrong to say that" he said.
Frank.
It was all he could think about.
What if he hurt his Skye too.
What if he didn't stop hurting her.
What if he hurt Alex and James.
What if they were suffering this entire time.
"I'm sorry skye " he said with such emotion it concerned her. Something was obviously wrong with him.
"It's okay" it wasn't okay and she didn't forgive him but she didn't want to anger him.
"It's not though. I could have tried harder. I should have tried more. I shouldn't have left you alone even for a second. I should have convinced them. I should have done more" he started ranting.
"I didn't know he was part of a gang. I didn't know fully what he was capable of. He was just a violent man who took you from me but then I found out hes a drug gang member. How am I suppose to let you tell me it's okay. It's not okay. It never will be"
Skye gulped. Did he know. What was he talking about.
"I let my Skye get taken all because I was too fucking weak. I could have tried harder" he seemed to forget she was in the room.
Suddenly he stopped continuing his rant realising she was still there.
"What do you know" Skye whispered dreading his response.
"You were kidnapped by men, last week I found out they were the drug gang. Did they give you to care or did they hold you hostage"
Skye never expected this. She didn't know what to say.
"Care?"
"Skye please don't lie. Please just tell me. Please" he needed to know. He needed to know if Frank hurt her.
Skye burst out crying. Not even Lorenzo knew but somehow Marco the boy who hated her knew.
"We never went into care" she whispered as she cried harder.
Marco gulped. He didn't know what to say only he couldn't let his Skye get taken from him again and he couldn't let her suffer like he had.
He suprised them both when he hugged her.
Skye not having anyone else broke down in his arms. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" Marco said hating himself.
He could have stopped it. He should have stopped it.
"I'm sorry I should have tried harder" he whispered pulling her closer as tears fell from his face.
"What do you mean" Skye asked knowing he was only 4 years older so he would have only been 8. He couldn't have done something.
"Nico was ill so he couldn't attend the party and you begged me to come so I did. It was being supervised by the kids parents so dad dropped us off. I was responsible for you"
"No you were 8. The parents were responsible for us all" Skye said understanding what he meant.
"I tried Skye. I tried so hard to stop them. I begged them to take me instead but they wouldn't. They...he....he wouldn't let me go"Â Â Marcos voice cracked as he spoke, tears running down his face.
"He?" Skye questioned. She knew the men were brutal and didn't want even Marco to go through the pain they put them through.
"His name was Frank" Marco whispered.
Skye blinked and stepped away hearing that name. She found herself panicking. She backed herself into the wall whispering and mumbling the word 'no' over and over. Marco grew scared knowing what Frank was capable of.
"Skye please it's okay, you're safe. He's not here. He's gone. You're safe" he tried to comfort her as she slid down against the wall pulling her knees to her chest protectively.
Marco's words didn't do anything not that he expected them too. He didn't believe them himself.
"Why do you know him. Did he tell you to do this? Do you work for him? How do you know him? You're one of them aren't you?" She panicked tears running down her face.
"No I'm not one of them" Marco couldn't bring himself to say how he knew.
"No stay away. You're one of them. Please just don't hurt the boys they always try to protect me, they don't deserve this" she said.
"Skye I'm not one of them" Marco tried again
"You are. You are like them"
"No Skye" Marco tried he was in tears too. He hated that she thought he was like him.
"No you are. Stay away you're evil. You're just like him. You are going to do what he says aren't you. You're going to...." She cried.
Marco couldn't let her continue. He was crying and panicking. He could bare to let her finish the sentance. It would break him. He wasn't thinking, he just wanted her to know he wasn't like him. "I'm not him. I'm nothing like that bastard. He sexually assaulted me and beat me" Marco shouted through tears.
Skye stopped crying but Marco gasped, he didn't mean to say that. His father and brothers knew about the beating but not the sexual assault. The hospital did ask but he denied it. He wouldn't let his father or Lorenzo see how weak he was. Lorenzo being the oldest, meaning at the time he worked alongside their father. They were stronger than him. Even Lorenzo who was only 17 was a powerful person and their father was a deadly man. He couldn't let them see how weak he was. He also didn't want them to focus on him, he wanted them to focus on finding the triplets so he didn't bother telling them back then about the sexual abuse.
"Skye....you can't tell anyone I told you. Not even Alex and James. Please don't tell anyone. Please. I'm sorry. I'm sorry" Marco said crying harder. He hated making her keep a secret but he couldn't help it. No one could ever know.
"I won't tell" Skye knew what he was going through and finally understood Marco.
Skye took a risk and stood up. She walked to Marco who had backed away crying and she hugged him.
Both Marco and Skye hugged each other for a while. Neither one ready to let go.
"Did he...did he do the same to you and the boys" Marco asked when he finally calmed down.
"Not the boys" Skye replied.
"I should have tried harder I'm sorry Skye. Im so sorry" Marco cried knowing what she had confirmed.
"You were 8" Skye said.
"You don't blame me?" Marco asked.
"No. You didn't do anything wrong. You tried to save us. It's okay Marco. You're okay" Skye reassured him.
"The boys will though. I hurt them physically. And you... I said such nasty things" Marco said as he thought about everything he began to feel sick again.
He let go of Skye and ran to the bathroom.
"Alex and James always protected me, they got themselves hurt alot though and had to watch me get hurt. They will understand. Alex he will understand"
"Why did you single Alex out. Will James not forgive me" Marco asked once he had done throwing up.
Skye gulped she couldn't tell him. It was Alex's story. She singled him out because he became someone else because of them. He became a drug dealer. He became a different person.
"Just we all changed especially Alex" Skye covered up.
"When it happened Alex always helped me. He would tell me everything would be okay and one day we would be free. He tried to get me to sleep but I could never sleep" she told him.
"He knows? How did you tell him?" Marco asked.
"They made James and Alex watch as they did it. They broke their legs sometimes to stop them getting to me and stopping them"
Marco looked at Skye. His Skye. She was like him but worse. She had it worse.
Marco sorted himself out not wanting to be weak in front of her. He was older. He was suppose to protect her and comfort her. He needed to stop feeling like he did.
"Alex and James would never leave my side but I can leave you alone if you want" Skye said unsure what to do.
Marco didn't know what he wanted. He wanted Skye but he didn't want to burden her or trigger her. "I'll be fine Skye, I'm probably going to try nd sleep" he told her knowing he was going to cry himself to sleep.He did that to many times over the past 10 years.