The Model and 8 brothers - Completed

Part 19

~ Karma's POV ~

They all watch me, waiting for me to tell them what had happened. Joey sat next to me, squeezing my hand, letting me know he was here for me, I smiled at him and took a deep breath.

"Okay, I'm going to ask you now, please do not interrupt me while I am telling you, parts of this story are going to make you want to kill some people, and this story is going to be hard enough to tell, without you interrupting me, so please just don't say anything..." I ask them, they nod their heads.

"Do you remember when I was 15, I knew I wanted to be a model, I told you I was going away on a camping trip to help with my career," I ask, they all nod their heads.

"Well, I wasn't going away, I was going on a mission, to kill the French Mafia leader. It didn't end too well, I got caught and was thrown into their cells. Now, you may ask, how did I keep in contact with you, well, he told me that either I let you know I was okay, or he would kill Joey. He showed me that he had Theodore locked up, which I now know, was a lie." I look at Joey and he has tears in his eyes, I play with his fingers and continue with the story.

"The French Mafia leader, I think his name was Blaise Monet, he tortured me, trying to find out what I was doing and who I was working for, I obviously wouldn't tell them, so he would whip me, stab me, shoot me, rape me..." I looked up to my brothers at the last bit, they were furious.

"Of course, I eventually escaped after 4 months of being tortured. People believe I ended his bloodline that day, but I didn't. I left one person alive, it was his sister, she had no intention of being a part of his mafia, I could tell she wasn't lying, call it gut instinct. However, I was away from you for about 11 months, is that correct?" I ask, they all nod their heads.

"I spent 7 months healing, of course, I didn't tell you that but I was safe," I explain

Joey gets up from his chair and wraps his arms around me, pulling me into a bone-crushing hug and the second I felt his tears on my neck, I started to cry soon, I really didn't want my brothers to think I was some broken doll. Eventually, after Joey gave me a hug, all of the rest of the boys came up to me and hugged me in age order from oldest to youngest, whispering in my ear that they were sorry, by the time that was all over everyone was crying. They were all sitting down, staring off into space. It dawned on me that I had to talk to Joey about what happened after we got out of here, a voice from the other side of our door pulled me from my trance of nothingness.

"Knock, knock," Came the sing-song voice

"Come in," I croaked out, my voice still laced with tears, my brothers, Joey, and myself quickly wiped them away, we couldn't be weak.

Melissa and Daniel rush over to me, squeezing me too tight.

"Hey Mimi and Danny," I chuckle, looking over at Joey, he scratches the back of his neck and smiles at me, I smile back.

"Aww sweetheart, how are you?" Melissa asks

"I'm good, it's nothing too serious." I shrug

"Yes it is serious Karma, and you know it." Ace says from the other side of the room

"Leave the poor girl alone Ace!" Melissa scolds

"Yes ma'am," He chuckles, causing everyone else to laugh.

Danny and Mimi had always been like second parents to all of us and we all had a special connection to them. They hugged everyone and Melissa shoves Joey off the chair he was sitting on next to me. She leaned over to me and whispered,

"I know what happened between you and Joey," My face reddens and she just giggles, I smile at her and look over to Daniel seeing that he is talking to Ashton. I roll my eyes and look back at Melissa. She was already looking at me as if asking me what was wrong.

"Nothing," I say, causing her to nod her head

"I see you're still wearing the necklace I gave you," She smiles

"Of course, why would I take it off," I laugh

"What necklace is this?" Austin asks

"Era el collar de la madre, Melissa me lo dio el otro día cuando ustedes estaban siendo unos idiotas. (It was mothers necklace, Melissa gave it to me the other day when you guys were being assholes)" I say, causing them to nod their heads

We spend the next hour just talking and then Joey, Melissa, and Daniel go home.

"Hey Karma," Adam says

"Yes, brother?" I ask

"We want to introduce you and Joey to the team," Alex adds on

"Yay! I was gonna ask you about that earlier but..." I say

"Okay, but Karma, we need you to swear omertá first," Ace says

"So, the tattoo?" I ask

"Yes, the tattoo," Alfie joins in

"Okay, Joey has already told his parents about him quitting Modelling and helping me," I shrug

"You're okay with this?" Ashton asks, coming over to me and stroking my hair

"Of course, and I'm guessing that you can't get any random dickhead to do it?" I question

"No, we have a tattoo artist in the gang actually," Arlo says proudly.

"Cool, oh by the way my tattoo is going on my underboob, and I am getting about 10 more done," I shrug

"Yes, sis! Join the tattoo club!" Alfie yells.

"YESSS!" I squeal

"It's fine by me, you'll look badass Karma." Ace says

"Wow, I was at least expecting you to argue with me, but nothing?" I ask

"Nah, tattoos are the shit," Adam says

"Okay, who are you and what have you done with my brothers?" I yell, shocked

They all laugh at me.

"Okay, well since y'all are so cool with it can I see your tattoos?" I ask

"Sure." Alfie shrugs

They all pull up their sleeves and I see the word omertá written in cursive.

"It's beautiful!" I squeal, they all chuckle and pull down their sleeves

"So when do I get to meet the team?" I question

"Well, you get to meet the inner circle, so our most trusted in two days, aka Friday," Ashton says

"Yes, and you get to meet the rest of the gang on Sunday," Aiden adds on

"And then we will introduce you to the world, next Saturday," Arlo smiles

"Uhm, the world?" I ask

"Yeah, the underworld, we will host a ball and reveal you then," Austin replies and I just smile.

We then just talk for a little before Dr. Hart comes back in with my discharge papers. Ace signs them while I get changed into Alfie's hoodie and some leggings.

We walk out of the hospital and our driver picks us up in our limousine. I sit next to Ashton and lay my head on his shoulder, the rest of the boys are talking about god knows what and I feel myself drift off.

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A/N

So I think in about 2 chapters' time we will get to see Karma fully express what she means by tattoos, and believe me, she is going to look badass as fuck, I already have the tattoos picked out. 

What do you think is gonna happen at the ball?

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