Unraveling Secrets

Chapter 54

Take two (I don't remember what I wrote from the last try)  😭

Nova

Sitting on the couch with everyone surrounding me waiting on words. Words I don't know how to say. Words I never thought I would say out loud.

Where to start 

Where to start

Where to start.

A throat clearing has me snapping out of trance. I stop staring at the ceiling and look at my brothers.

"You were lost in thought there for a good 30 minutes. Are you ready?" Matteo asks.

"Uhh yeah- yeah sure. Where do you want me to start?" I ask the room.

"How about we start with the day we found you. At the police station." Lorenzo says.

"Okay. What do you want to know first?"

"You had beaten up that man..." Marcello trails off.

"Oh yeah. I feel like that is pretty explanatory of how I did that after tonight's events. As you now know I am an underground fighter, so taking him down wasn't to hard since I am the best there is." I say with a slight smirk at the end.

"Okay lets not get ahead of our-"

"Dude. She literally beat you tonight." Elio says cutting off Toni.

"Maybe I knew it was her and I didn't want to beat up my sister." 

"Did you?" Elio questions.

Toni is silent for a minute before saying, "no." 

"Anyways..." Elio trails off.

"How did you really get into fighting? Specifically underground?" Lorenzo asks.

"Yeah cause underground isn't really something everyone just knows how to get into or even thinks of." Matteo says.

"Okay yeah. I started fighting because I wanted a reason to be out of the house, and to get my anger out. I wanted a distraction I guess you could say. I learned very quickly that I was good at it, and I enjoyed it. When the opportunity presented itself, thanks to Jake I started fighting the illegal way. I was told about the money which was really good, and I needed it. So why not make money while doing something I was good at? It was an opportunity I couldn't pass up." I say with a shrug.

"Why did you need the money?" Enzo asks.

"You do realize I was kidnapped right?" I say with a chuckle. "You think I was going to be put with a loving family who wanted to spoil me? Leah and Greg didn't want to spend a dime on me, so I needed a why to make money so I could provide for myself." I say. 

Did- How long were they like this?" Matteo asks.

"For as long as can I remember. That is why when I found out the news about them not actually being my parents I wasn't that surprised. I mean it made some kind of sense, which probably sounds fucked up." I say with a breathy laugh. "But the whole situation is fucked up so..." 

"Did- did they ever lay a hand on you?" Matteo asks. His voice was so gentle and lased with care and worry. It caused a crack in my heart. I didn't want to hurt him with this. Fuck why is this so hard.

I look to Jax and he just gives me a slight nod in reassurance. I look back to my brothers and I think the silence was enough of an indicator of what the answer was. "Yes" I say. They do their best to hold their composure for me, but I can see the slight change in their postures, and the intake of their breath.