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“Your woman? What are you talking about? She’s a child.”
“I’m not a child. I’m twenty-one years old. And I wasn’t kidnapped,” I say from behind my Romano/Raziel wall.
“If you weren’t kidnapped, what happened? We’ve given you everything and where is Lucy? She’s not eighteen yet and that’s kidnapping.”
Now we’re getting somewhere. This is the real them, they don’t care, they just want control.
“It’s none of your business where Lucy is,” Romano says.
“It definitely is my damn business. She’s my daughter and you’re the criminal that took my children!” my father raises his voice at Romano.
Both Romano and Raziel step towards my father and he visibly cowers. I try to hold back a snicker but it slips out.
“You ungrateful little witch. We’ve done everything for you and this is how you repay us?” my mother snaps at me.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard her raise her voice or call me names. I step around Romano and face her and my father.
“You don’t scare me anymore. You can’t hurt me anymore. And I promise you, you will never hurt Lucy again.”
Before I can step back, my father reaches out and slaps me. Romano punches him before I can even react to it.
“Don’t you ever touch my wife again.”
“Your wife? What the hell are you talking about? You can’t be married her! She’s an idiot with no education. And she hasn’t been gone long enough for you to have married her!”
Romano looks like he’s getting bigger with each word my father says against me. He slams my father against the wall.
“I will only say this once more.Neverspeak that way about my wife. In fact, don’t ever speak to her again.”
While Romano is talking to my father, my mother is calling the police. I hate her. It takes five minutes for the police to show up. Luckily it’s Sebastiano Mancini, Gráinne’s oldest son and his partner, Mac Walker. They are detectives with the Chicago Police, and they also volunteer out here in our town.
“We heard the call over the radio. What’s going on?” Sebastiano asks.
“These two animals attacked us out of nowhere. We were minding our own business and they took our daughter.” My mother starts to sob.
What the heck is going on? Why is she lying like that? Does she really think I would back her up? Sebastiano looks at me, he knows what I’ve been through so I’m not worried. But Romano did assault my father. My mother looks me over.
“Oh my goodness, you’re a whore!” she exclaims as she stares at my belly. In the last week, I’ve started to pop out a little, I love how Romano talks to our baby. But hearing my mother call me a whore? That takes me back to living with them and being ashamed and scared of everything I do.
Romano
“Let him go, Romano. We got this. Go to Simone, I think she needs you,” Mac says to me.
Right as he says that, I hear Simone’s mother call her a whore. And all I see is red. Blood fucking red. I would never hit a woman, but no one calls my wife a whore. I don’t care who the fuck it is. And I care even less that it’s the bitch that tortured my woman.
I head over to Simone and wrap my arms around her.
“Are you okay, mia farfalla?”
“Are you calling her a whore in another language? Because if you are, I agree.” Simone’s father laughs.
“Shut it. Or I will let him loose on you,” Mac says to him. “And you? Stop calling your daughter a whore.”
Simone is shaking as I hold her. She’s told me before about how her parents talked to her. But they were never really mean to Lucy, and I know it hurt her. But it was also a relief to her because she didn’t want Lucy to go through that.
“M-maybe I should go with them. I don’t want to bring this on you.” She sniffles.
I tilt her chin to look up at me. “I love you. I’m not going to let you go. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. And it’s not because you’re carrying our child. It’s because I choose you. I’ll always choose you.”
