Chapter 18 | Luck

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The day Faye was trafficked

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The day Faye was trafficked....
My throat hurt from crying so much. Everything in my body throbbed with pain.

My mothers screams echoed off the hallways. Making it to my ears and inside my chest. Squeezing every airway until it was hard to breathe. To function in this dark room she hid me in.

I kept rolling the dice she gave me. They rolled over the small patch of marble flooring we had in this specific part of the house, every number counting to seven when they landed.

Luck.

She always told me that number was lucky. That it was the number seen most of in the world, seven colors in the rainbow. Seven days of the week, seven wonders of the world. Seven major seas and seven continents.

But I didn't feel so lucky right now.

I knew what was to come. In the next seven seconds, or seven minutes or if I was lucky enough maybe seven hours they'd find me. My father would find me and I'd be taken away.

"Please. Don't take her away from me. Micheal." My mother pleaded, voice broken with tears and hours of yelling. My own throat hurt with my tears and the pain of hers.  "She's our daughter!-"

"Not anymore. Now I'll turn this house inside and out to find that little girl. The men will be here to pick her up soon and if I don't have her ready they won't want her. I already have half a million dollars in cash right now because of her. I won't get the other million if she's not here, Gaia."

"Good-" There was a loud crash, cutting off my mother and my heart broke.

I moved, inching toward the door that led to the stairs, but I stopped. She told me no matter what I heard to not leave, but I couldn't leave her there. I placed the dice in my pocket.

"I guess I'll just have to find my little sis by myself then," Thomas said and then after a pause he added, "you aren't gonna help me Seb?"

There was silence between my brothers, the only thing heard was the yelling that continued between my parents.

"Come on, Sebastian. Faye couldn't have been that important to you," Thomas said.

I heard steps from above me, looking up between the cracks. I saw Seb and Thomas.

"Father isn't going to give you any of that money so why do you care so much to get rid of her? You know who would be disappointed in you?" Sebastian asked. I saw Thomas stop and turn around to look at Seb.

"Don't you say her name, Seb. That's over and that has nothing to do with what we are about to be loaded with."

"But it does. You got your heart broken and now you hate every woman on this earth. Even our fucking little sister, Thomas. That's pathetic-"

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