As You Are (BWWM) (ON HOLD)

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Tuesday 18th October, 1997

He watched as she screamed and yelled with every punch and hit that the man known as his father made to her face.

From her mouth, she spit up blood and it rolled down her face. He continued to watch him repeatedly hit and kick his mom in the stomach again and again.

"Bitch!" he yelled.

"No stop! Please stop!" she yelled as his fist went upside her head. She tried to get up to only be knocked right back down with a punch to her jaw.

Lucas sat in the corner with tears streaming down his face as he watched his mom get tortured. Day to day he would come home angry and mostly take it out on her.

He hated that he couldn't defend her because what could a ten year old do to stop a 6'5 grown man? Even if he tried he was scared of the outcome of angering his father even more.

Michael Daniels worked as a construction worker down in the city. He met my mother in high school and immediately pursued her. Ten years later they were married and expecting their first son, his brother James.

A few years later, 3 years to be exact, him and his twin sister April was born. Everything was fine. Their dad had a job working as a teacher and their mom as a substitute teacher. After getting into a scuffle with a parent he was fired. That's when things went downhill. He started drinking more and more and took his anger out on them.

Lucas silently prayed that James would come home from practice and tried to fight off their dad.

Lucas knew he had to do something to stop the man from beating his mother. With tears running down his own face, he stood up and screamed for his father to be stop hitting mommy. His dad stopped and turned around punching his son in the face sending him flying to the floor. With one last kick to his face, Lucas was unconscious.

"Mr. Daniels did you even hear a word I said" his assistant's high pitched tone said snapping him out of his daze.

"What do you want Olivia?" He responded, his voice low.

"I said that you have a meeting in five minutes, we should head out now if you want to make it on time sir"

"Can you cancel it please?"

"Sir I'm sorry but this is an important meeting with the connect from Russia" she informed him.

Sighing, Lucas fixed his tie and stood up making his way out of the office, his assistant trailing behind.

***

Lucas sat wordlessly as his connect clicked through the PowerPoint. He wasn't really paying attention. His mind was elsewhere. His thoughts drifted to his mother whom hasn't saw in years, then to his siblings who refuse to talk to him.

He sighed and wondered why did his life turn out this way. Why couldn't he be happy? He had the money, the power, the fame and any woman he wanted but why couldn't he be happy.

Now at 27, he was more laid back ad kept to himself which explains why he was single. He gave no one the time of day unless of course ordering his employees around. Years ago no one would've thought he was the same person.

His thoughts were once again interrupted by a woman bursting through the doors of the conference room.

"I'm sooo sorry I'm late. I'm in for Rachel, she's out of the state right no-"

"Excuse me?" Vadim Boris, his connect questioned her.

"Sir I'm in for Ra-"

"And I heard you but what makes you think you can just burst in here like a damn animal interrupting a meeting? Are you dumb?"

Lucas raised an eyebrow at Vadim growing pissed. Who was he talk to a woman like that? He then eyed the brown skinned beauty who stood there embarrassed.

The room grew quiet as Vadim continued to insult her. The last straw was when he called her a monkey. The girl was about to say something when I cut her off.

"to, chto , chert voz'mi, eto vasha problema ?! pochemu by vam skazat', chto s ney ?!" He yelled startling everyone.

( what the hell is your problem?! why would you say that to her?!)

" ser , ona zh-" he cut him off by standing up slamming his hands down on the table.

( sir she wa-)

"Enough!! I do not tolerate disrespect especially towards a woman! She was simply late. Every fucking person has been late at least twice in their lives so shut the fuck up talking to her like she's your child. You know what fuck this deal and fuck this meeting. Get out" Lucas snapped watching Vadim's face grow red. Lucas stared at him daring him to say something.

As nobody moved he slammed his fist down again repeating for them to leave. They all quickly got up and filed out except for the beauty that stood tears about to fall.

The room was now empty except for Lucas and the girl. He pulled out a handkerchief out of his suit jacket and walked over to the girl.

He hated seeing females cry. He saw his mother cry everyday and it broke his heart. He gave her his handkerchief and guided her to one of the chairs.

"Are you okay?" He asked her. She looked up at him and faked a smile and nodded her head.

He decided to not say anything thing else but sat and comforted the brown beauty that dried her tears.

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New story!!

This is a new bwwm romance. I was just a thought that came to mind and decided to write on it. I've been working on this for days and the next chapter will be posted tomorrow.

Hope you enjoy.