Eleutheromania

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"Are we there yet?" Theo asked for the umpteenth time. I swear to god he is only 1 year younger than me but he acts like a fucking child sometimes.

Instead of answering him all of us ignored him so he decided since no one answered no one heard him "Are we there yet?" he asked again.

No answer again.

It may be rude and we normally wouldn't ignore him like this just like he wouldn't normally act like this.

Wait, that's not true. This annoying child is exactly how Theo normally acts.

But us others usually have a better approach to him but at this moment we are all anxious and all we want is to be there and i'm driving as fast as I ca-

"Are we there yet?"

"No Theo, not yet." I sigh as I take a hard left.

He crosses his arms over his chest and let out a loud humph. Like I said, he's a big baby.

"Almost though." River reassures him from the passenger seat and Theo nods in appreciation.

He was impatient and experienced a strong sense of yearning to be reunited with his little sister, we all did. But instead of being quiet and stuck in his own head like the other 7 of us his worries were brought to life and given a voice. In this instance that voice only repeated 4 words, a question. Are we there yet?

Seconds later I pressed on the brakes hard and turned off the car signaling for everybody to get out because we were finally here. We are finally here. We will finally meet our sister after 12 long excruciating years.

The neighborhood was quiet and everyone of us had taken out our guns and moved stealthily towards the building which our sister hopefully lived in. She lived in a fucking dump. Once she's home again we'll spoil her but first we need to take care of the traitors that did this to her. That broke our entire family.

If this is actually where she lives and she has been this close the entire time I don't know what I'll do. We have been searching and searching ever since she was taken but still being only an hour away from her we couldn't find her.

I as well as everyone else know River has done his best to find her and he still is the best. Why we couldn't find her just puts into question who took her and how they could keep her hidden for so long while being so close to us.

Did who we suspected take her or were we wrong?

I remind myself that this isn't the time and place to think about all this and instead I bring my focus back on seeing my sister again.

I signal for us to move to the front door and get into position. All my brothers listen to me in situations like this. It doesn't happen often but even Theodore is compliant right now which i'm happy about since his emotions have been all over the place since he found out about our sister.

I am the Don of the Italian mafia but my brothers are still my brothers and they don't always listen to me. But i'm pleased they listen to me when it matters.

Gray and Hunter moved to stand on either side of the front door and the whole place was dark. Perfect I thought, then they won't be expecting us.

But what we didn't expect was for the front door to be ajar and for a trail of blood to be going from the front door further inside the house.

A/N:

This chapter is super short which i'm really sorry about. It felt like a good point to end it on. I'm also sorry it took me this long to update - it's been over a year...

But this new year of 2024 gave me some motivation today on January 1 so happy new year! I hope I will keep being motivated but I also wish this short chapter gave you some hope for the future of this book because I still am really excited about it and I have so many ideas that I want to get down on the page in the form of words (:

Thank you for reading and waiting for me to start writing again, it means more than you know <3

Word count: ~ 700