She is the one by Asheslove (book recommendations for young adults txt) 📕

‘We used to come here by bicycles when we were little’ he said after few minutes.

So this is why he brought me here, to tell his sad story.       

‘You mean you and Leo’ I asked.

“Hu” he hummed in response. 

‘We used to race and bet on who reaches first on the top' he said.

‘The house near where I parked the car was his home’

That caught my attention. Isn’t Leo his brother then what does he mean by his home but before I could ask any question he continued,

‘His father used to work for my father. My mother and his mother were very close, like sisters. My mother belongs to criminal background that's why she never wanted to live a life between wars and blood, but she don’t have a choice when her family married her to my father who also belong to criminal background and little did she know the man she was married was not human, but monster.’ His voice was low but audible.

So this run in his blood, I had no interest to hear his sad story but this is the first time he shows me this side of him, this is the side of him which I never witnessed before and for the first time he looked vulnerable instead of his cold self.

‘Leo father was very loyal to my father and was one of his best men but he was nothing like him. Both of his parents love each other but his wife doesn’t want to live between criminals. He build the house in that street, so that she could live away from whatever work he do and he don’t even let the shadow of his work fall on his family’

‘My mother escaped from my father when she was five months pregnant with me. My father send Leo's father to find her and bring her back. His father found her on the street, he respected her and my father both but he knows the reality what will happen if he took her back to my fucking father so instead of taking her back to him he brought her to his home’

‘Leo mother welcomed her with open arms and both his parents decided to give shelter to my mother in their home and hide her from my father’

‘Leo was two years old when I was born’

So now I got, I always used to think how Leo can be his brother, he’s also criminal but he's somewhat soft while at the same time Nicolas is cruel and ruthless with all the qualities of being a monster.

Now there’s nothing left to hear. Looking at that abandoned, shattered old house I get the entire story. All of them died leaving these two muttonheads behind since Nicolas was already from criminal background he easily got involved in all type of illegal activities involving Leo with him and become the most powerful mafia leader.

Does it matter, would it somehow help me in getting my family back and myself out from here? Would it bring my life back which slowly yet reluctantly he’s taking away from me due to his sick desire over me. No, so its least one of my concerns.

‘We two grew up together. Leo always treated me like his younger brother. His father won’t let anyone hands to know where my mother is. The street back there doesn’t look like this, it was a well build beautiful town, people used to live here with their children and family with green vegetation all around the place and farms’ he said.

‘We both used to study in the town school and played with other neighborhood kids. The forest is off limits, both our mothers would be careful not to allow us to go their but once I somehow got chance and ended up on the top of this hill.

‘The next day I took Leo with me to show, firstly he scolded me for going alone in forest without telling him and then we both started to came here regularly. We both were daring and love challenges. I don’t remember when this place becomes our favorite spot’ he smiled remembering his days of childhood.

‘At night when everybody sleeps we sneak out of our windows and getting on our cycles come here. This place had a lot of memories’

‘Everything was going great but then somehow my father got the idea of where my mom is, until then I never know about why she escaped. I was seven when I found about my father’

‘He used to beat her, whip her, abuse her, rape her and even let his men and friends fuck her. Leo parents know about this so they don’t wanted my father to know about her’

‘I had a life Elena, I had a life and I always wanted to live it that way until my fucking father destroyed it shattering everything’ he hissed in rage.

A deep urge to laugh mockingly and scream at him came to my mind. I wanted to shout at him telling he had done nothing different to me, telling he’s no less than his father but I didn’t found right words to speak. I looked at his state and push my hard thoughts aside because I am not like him, his state look dejected so I hold myself.

He slips his hand in his pocket and brings out a box. For once my breath hitched but when I looked at it I relaxed, the box was bigger than a box of ring.

He opened it and I saw a silver pendant necklace in it with a silver chain and a star in between in which a diamond is fixed. It was shining beautifully in the full moonlight.

‘It’s my mothers; this is the only souvenir I had of her instead of her memories'.

'It’s beautiful' I whispered looking at the chain.

'It will look more beautiful on you' he said softly.

'But it's your mothers' I said looking in his eyes.

'And that's why I want you to wear it'.

He motioned me to turn, first I hesitated but then turned my head towards others side, my one hand in his so with other I hold his shirt from side frightened to fall down because of the height we were sitting.

Unlocking our hands he put the chain around my neck and I lifted my hairs up, he fastened the necklace with a soft click and then I turned my head back. 

He looked at my neck with satisfaction playing in his eyes and smiled at me.

'I was supposed to gave you this on Thanksgiving but those bastards ruined the night by kidnapping you' he hissed dangerously in low voice.