The Brothers Down The Street

Chapter 52

I lay in bed, the sun had come up and it was getting on to six am. Not that it mattered, I hadn't fallen back to sleep even though Will stayed with me all night.

I gave up trying to force my eyes shut so I got up. Sliding out from under Will's arm I walked over to Lilli who was silently awake, kicking her legs out and smiling: her innocent brain had no idea what happened last night.

I picked her up and carried her down the stairs to give her breakfast.

At eight o'clock I heard footsteps coming down the stairs which send shivers down my spine. Every sound that I didn't make scared the crap out of me, even if I did know it was only Will.

"Did you get any sleep?" He asked, flicking the kettle on and pulling out some bread.

I shook my head.

"Have you eaten?"

"No and neither will Lilli." I stated.

"She can probably tell you're stressed." Will said, placing his hands on my hips and placing a gentle kiss on my neck before taking Lilli's food from me and attempting to feed her myself.

"I'm not stressed Will." I snapped, pouring the boiled water into two mugs. "I'm terrified, Lilli was in danger last night."

"Stop worrying about Lilli and worry about yourself." He ordered. "She has no idea what happened and as long as you're fine, she's fine."

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"So where's my little angle?" Rachel asked from behind the bar.

"Liam picked her up this morning." I replied.

"You let that psycho go off with Lilli?" Dad spat.

"He's her Dad." I said. "He would never hurt her."

"Just you." Rachel stated.

I glared at her. "She deserves to make the choice herself, when she's older. I'm not going to take that away from her."

"Evenin' all." Will smiled, walking into the pub and kissing my cheek.

"Let me get you a drink, on the house." Rachel said, pouring him his usual pint of larger.

"No it's fine, I'll pay."

"After last night, you should get used to hearing on the house in here." She replied, placing it down.

"So I'm guessing you told them?" Will asked.

I nodded. "Well it was nothing, I was hardly going to wait around in my house after the phone call."

"I still don't get why you didn't call me." Dad said, slightly moody.

"Will was closer." I told him with a laugh. "No need to get jealous, you're still the number one tough guy around here."

"And of course it's Ross's fault." Dad sighed. "No surprise there." He got up and walked over to a booth where his new girlfriend was waiting, she seemed nice which was a change considering my mum. He needed a nice girl.

"I'll get us a table." Will said as Rachel went to serve another customer.

"First I want to talk to you." I said. "It's about Ross."

"What's he done this time?" He asked with a sigh.

"I think something might of happened to him."

I heard the door to the pub swing open behind me and shut again. "He's fine." Will said.

"You don't no that." I argued.

"He looks okay to me." He shrugged, looking a few inches behind me.

I turned around to see Ross, wearing a smirk cockier than usual.

Will picked up his drink, walking over to one of the tables.

"Miss me?" Ross questioned, the smirk still extremely visible on his face as he placed an elbow on the bar beside me.

"Hardly." I scoffed, picking up my gin and tonic.

"Worried about me?" He asked.

"You know I worry about you." I replied. "I thought something bad happened."

"It did, I messed things up with the girl I love and now she's going to accept my brothers proposal."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Yes, you did mess things up with me." I said before walking over to Will and sitting in the chair beside him.

Ross's POV:

I looked at the two of them, making love heart eyes at each other and laughing. I gulped down my drink, unable to watch them any longer before storming out.

I headed straight to the garage, the last thing I needed was Tom on my back after all of this. I pulled up the shutters and turned around to see Tom inside. How he'd got here before me I had no idea.

"That's the first and last time my daughter will be in danger because of you." He said in a deadly tone. "From now on you do your work- clock in, clock out, stay away from my daughter."

"That'd be pretty hard considering your Mads has been all over me lately. In fact we probably did it right where your st-"

I was cut off by an unexpected fist to the face, for an older guy his fist carried power, I dropped to the ground before being kicked what felt like a couple dozen times and punched a little more before being hit in the face with a with wrench.

"Dad! What the hell are you doing!" Maddy yelled which sounded like the voice of an angle right about now.

"Ask your big mouth boyfriend down there." Tom spat before neatening the edges of his jacket and walking out of the garage.