Landon

6

Holden's forehead wrinkled but after a few seconds he seemed to recognize her and his eyes went wide.

"Baby sister?" Was the only thing coming out of his mouth.

"Mum had been worried about you." Katie croaked out. "She le-left me alone with dad a half year ago." Tears began to roll down her cheeks again.

"You left us." She stated swallowing hard to keep herself under control. "Mom left me." She whispered to herself then.

"You weren't on my 11th birthday!" She suddenly yells. "And also not on my 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th...Dad beat me almost to death." She whispers and falls back onto the bed crying again.

I don't know what to do, I didn't know the bastard left her alone with this awful man.

"How could you." I state looking up at him in shock. Then my anger starts to sink in. How could he leave his own sister with an abusive parent.

I stand up and after walking towards him I push  him against the wall and punch in his jaw.

His head bumps against the wall hard and a high pitched scream is heard.

Oh shit.

I turn around, let Holden sink down and hurry over to Katie immediately who's backing away from me.

All of a sudden she falls down from my bed and lands on the floor with a loud thud.

Some of the bandages on Kate's body start to peel off and she whimpers.

"Oh my god Kate." I whisper and hurry to her side. "Don't do that again you hear me?" She nods and hiccups.

I pick her up in bridal style. "Are you hungry?" I ask gentle and she nods with big eyes.

Chuckling I open the door and go down the stairs with her still in my arms.

I really need to hold myself back as she pulls herself closer and cuddles in my chest. Fuck I just wanna kiss her right now.

"Who are you?" Kate asks again and my heart clenches one more time. "Landon." I reply and look down as she looks up at me with an adorable confused look on her face.

"I'll protect you from now on." Her face brightened up and she asked excited: "Will you also celebrate my birthday with me?" I smiled and laughed lightly.

"If you want me to." She nodded again.

"My name is Katie, right? You called me like that."

Katie's POV:

I waited for his answer and smiled happily as he nodded.

This Landon guy seemed nice even if he looked really cruel and beat up Holden, not that he didn't deserve it.

He needed to be nice because he was carrying me.

Damn that's luxurious.

Then suddenly I remembered something.

"Oh god." I whispered and tried to wiggle out of Landon's arms.

"Hey, hey Katie what's wrong?" He whispered trying to sound soothing but it put me even more on edge.

"My my father shot someone in the house we were staying in." I whispered frightened and Landon sighed.

"No he didn't Kate." His Adams apple made it clear that he swallowed hard and I looked up at him with wide eyes.

"I did. I killed your dad Katie." He whispered his eyes full of regret.

I said nothing.

What was I supposed to say?

My father surely would had deserved to rot in jail for eternity but to be killed? No one deserves to be killed.

We made it to the kitchen and Landon set me down.

"I'm so sorry about that and--" he looked deeply into my eyes. "I didn't have the intention to shoot him but he-he wanted to kill you angel. I couldn't let that happen."

My own dad wanted to kill me.

I let it sink in.

My own dad!

Tears fell down once again.

"But you-- I mean I never-- you don't even know me so why would you help? I don't know you I don't know wha--" Landon cut me off.

"I know you better than you think I do. You just can't remember my dear." His voice had something dark in it as if he was furious about me not remembering him.

"I'm sorry." I whispered and looked down and into my lap.

"Don't ever say sorry because of that again. It is totally not your fault. I should have noticed sooner what this bastard did to you."

Then he hugged me again and...sniffed my hair? "You are sniffing my hair." I stated and Landon's whole face turned red.

"Ehm yeah do you want something to eat?" He asked and turned around to open the fridge clearly wanting to change the theme.

"Do you have spaghetti?" I asked and was clearly not amused as Landon shook his head.

As he noticed that I was pouting he instantly offered to get me some.

Excitedly I nodded and a second later his phone was on his ear.

"Go get noodles." He ordered the person on the other side in a rough tune.

I frowned and narrowed my eyes at his back. Nobody should talk to a living creature like they were their slaves or something.

Rude...

"Yeah you can buy some for yourself buddy." Landon sighed and ran a hand over his face. He seemed tired though and to be honest I was too.

"Your food should be delivered in 20 minutes." Landon came over and sat down next to me in a chair. As soon as he had taken a seat he scooted impossibly close to me and I squirmed uncomfortable.

I'm not used to this many attention. "Where are your mum and dad?" I don't know why but this question made me curious all of a sudden but from the way Landon tensed up beside me I realised it probably wasn't a nice theme to talk about for him.

Yet he did surprisingly.

"Uhm my mother got shot as I was little and dad died some hours ago." Landon kept his glance down and I could tell he was really surprised as I reached over and hugged him.

"I'm sorry about that Lan." His head perked up and he chuckled lightly. "Already having a nickname for me cupcake?"

//Will she get her memory back?//