Paper Hearts

Chap 17

Ivory Hoye~Harrington

Cole was on the phone again. I just let out a little sigh and dried the dishes we just used.

He was always on the phone lately maybe my brothers was right? Maybe he was up to something?

I put the dishes into their places, I opened the fridge and pulled out a can of coke.

I walked over to the couch, I turned the tv on from the remote and put on American Horror story on. I opened my can of coke and took a sip of it.

Cole walked in and sat next to me he kissed my cheek. "Sorry love. It was important."

I moved a little away from him to be honest I'm pissed at him bit because of the phone thing it also has something to do with the fact that he went out last night and didn't come home until three in morning me being so stupid stayed up for him.

"What's wrong?"He asked. My eyes glued onto the tv all I could see was Evan Peters covered himself in cheese puffs.

He picked up the remote from the coffee table and turned it off. I got up from my seat Cole took a hold of my arm I turned over to my shoulder and looked at him. "Let me go."

"Why?"

"I'm tired."

"Tired? You were just watching a crazy guy put blended cheese puffs on his face?"

I pulled away from his hold so hard. "That crazy man is called Evan Peters and he's not crazy. I'm pretty sure when his girlfriend is around or she wants him to spend time with her he isn't on the motherfucking phone!"I yelled on the top of my voice. "And isn't on his phone when his girlfriend is fucking talking!"

Cole got up from his seat. "How do you think I've got this? This place? I fucking work Ivy!"He yelled.

"So you are trying to say to me that every single fucking time you are on your phone it's work? So work called you two in the morning the other night? Work was the reason that you came home late last night I even stayed up for you last night."

He just looked at me. "That's why you are upset?"

My eyes brimmed with tears. "I don't even know anything about you. This was a bad idea of me moving in. "

He just looked at me and sighed. "I'll tell you."

I just walked into the bedroom. Tears trickled down my face I'm so stupid I honestly thought he would be the one the one. The one where people go searching for years and I found mine when I was seventeen.

He walked into the room he hugged me then pulled away he wiped my tears away with his thumbs. "I'm going to tell you the truth."

He sat down on the bed I sat next to him.

"When I was fifteen, my dad needed money for my sister treatment everyone was working I thought I need to as well. But who was going to hire a fifteen year old?"He explained. "I was on the street one day and a guy came up to me telling me he'll give me two million to do this drug deal for him. I agreed. But how did I know the consequences after?"

His eyes brimmed with tears I took a hold of his hand and squeezed it.

"I did a few more and my mother found out she wanted me out I did but one day they captured my family."He said "They made me watch. They kept on telling me that if I joined them they would leave them alone but my mother told me not to no matter what that Was her last wish and they skinned her alive. My father they chopped up in front of me and sent him to my grandparents my grandad went into a coma and died my grandma died then of an heart attack. My sister.."A tear trickled down his face. "They raped her in front of me and then ripped the hair she had left chopped her up and fed her to the dogs. Since that day I vowed that I will find those people and make them suffer. So I made a gang one of the best in the world. And that's why I get the phone calls."

He wiped his tears away. "Oh my gosh. I-I didn't know C-Cole I'm so sorry."

He nodded "It's fine."

"One day my mother went out she took Heath, Grayson and Finn with her. Doug,Carter, Bryce and Aiden were in the backyard."I explained. "It's was good. I woke up from my nap I was eight years old okay. I walked into the kitchen to see F-Father there. He had boiling hot oil in these pans and he had Douglas there. He wasn't fond of him. Douglas looked at me and whispered to me to go. I didn't. Instead I caused a riot at dad saying what was he doing to Doug so he poured the boiling hot oil on my chest and legs. I was screaming he ran out and left. Doug called the others they all tried to help me."

I squeezed his hand the tears ran down my face like a waterfall.

"I went into hospital the burns unit. After a few days my mother went mad and took me out of the hospital without anyone knowing."I explained. "She locked me up in a motel I missed all my medicines so my burns got infected therefore my skin grafts did that's why it's like that. Then my parents ran and didn't come back."

He wiped the tears away and we kissed. "We've got each other that's all we need."I whispered.

He smiled.