- avery
" can you tell me everything?" mattia forces his self up. he groans in agony as he places his hand to suppress the pain in his shoulder.
" wait are you sure ? you just woke up not to long ago." i question him. he grips onto my hand and turns to me. " im fine my love."
" ok," i state softly. i dont want to go back and forth with him because its not worth it.
he looks back at niall , my brother. i still cant even believe that he is here infront of me after all these years. niall looks at him with this look my mother used to give to me. its so scary how much he resembles her.
the fact that he is older than mattia still lingers in my mind. someone isn't telling the whole story so i hope niall can provide that for us.
" a year or two before avery was born is when i found out about the little love secret that my father had for your mother. whenever my mother wasnt home he would go hours and hours about her. he mentioned you a few times saying that you should have been his son when he found out about you."
" days went on until he finally decided to go after your mother that night. you were still at a young age when i saw you for the first time. my father brung you over to our house and told me to watch over you as he handled some buisness. even though what he had done wasn't tasteful he still managed to make sure you were safe." niall continues to explain.
" i stayed up all hours of the night watching and making sure nothing happened to you. it was exactly around 3:15 in the morning my father came rushing through the door. he tgrew you iver his shoulder and carried you away. i watched through the window as he hopped in the car with you."
to know that my father could be so naïve and selfish to do this to someone's family doesn't even surprise me. i can imagine the pain my mother felt when she found out how horrible that man was.
" the night avery got sent away was exactly a day after mom found out about everything. im guessing you saw the altercation the happened between them and father wasnt to pleased about it."
i let out a sigh and peirce my eyes to the floor. i regret not telling anyone about it but i was to afraid for what was at stake. " yes , he started hitting her because he was to into believing his own lies. i was also hit and told if i ever tell anyone what happened my head will be his." i confess.
" he got so upset that he sent you away to a foster home. at the time you weren't old enough to know about the mafia. mom didn't want you to leave and neither did i. he forged her signature signing off on the contract. weeks after you left i was sick to my stomach. i couldn't sleep or eat. mom and dad wouldnt stop bickering until one day he got sick of it."
i look him in the eyes and know exactly what was coming out of his mouth next. i dont want to hear about this shit but i have to.
" i was home alone and father walked through the door with bloodstained shirt and trailed mud trails through the house. i went to my bed just thinking he had buisness to take care of. i've noticed that mom hasn't been home in atleast 3 days. i asked him questions and all he told me was that she was on a buisness trip. at first i believed it but as the year went on , the truth just unfolded."
" i found her body buried in a flower feild where she would always go. no one knew about that place but us. its like he knew exactly where we would find her. i couldn't control myself , i wanted to go in the house and kill our own father. i called the doctor so he could examine her body. 15 stab wounds to the fucking chest and a broken rib , all of that for him to gain nothing. i had gone weeks without bringing it up to him that i know."
my chest tightened and it felt as if i stopped breathing. i feel the tears run down my face.
" he told me she died in a car crash. she didnt even get a proper burial for christ sake. years went on and he brought you up again when we moved here."
i hate him more than anything in the world. i feel sick to my stomach knowing that im related to that man. it aches my heart to know the way my mother died.
i didn't realize that i was gripping onto mattia's hand so tight until he rubbed my stomach. i brought ny focus bake to the real world and let myself know he is finally gone.
" i know its hard for you but dont stress over it ok. you need to stay healthy for the baby , just know im not going anywhere."
author's note
hey hey heyyyyyy!!!! i know you guys missed me , i missed yall aswell! im back now from my little mental break. this just a short chapter for you guys but there is more to come to this story.