The Mafia's Princess

Chapter 20 - PTSD

Austin POV:
I was in the cell being wiped. One, two, three times, I kept counting but it was so many times I lost count. Ivan was laughing, I could feel my body weaken, blood run down my back.

"Austin I think we could have more fun if we brought more people to play with us." Ivan said to me with a sinister smirk, nodding to one of his men.

Suddenly they brought in two other people, with a hood on both their heads and tied them up as well. One was quite short, and the other taller, but still shorter than me.

They pulled the bag off the people's head and I could see who it was. Cecily and Autumn.

My eyes opened wide. "Good, now that we're all here." Ivan started before taking out the whip again and striking Cecily and my sister.

"NOOOOOO" I yelled as Ceci and Aut screamed.

I was forced to watch him beat them with the whip until their bodies were bloody and barely moving.

"NO! PLEASE! HIT ME INSTEAD! PLEASE STOP! ILL DO ANYTHING JUST PLEASE STOP!" I continued to sob but to no avail.

"Pathetic." Ivan spat at me. One of the men unchained Ceci and Autumn and they fell to the ground, neither moving.

Ivan walked over to me and hit the whip against me a hundred more times until unchaining me and walking out.

I fell to the floor and crawled over to my girlfriend and baby sister. I grabbed them both but neither moved. "No! NO PLEASE! NOOOOOOO"

"Austin!"

I heard a faint voice in the air.

"AUSTIN WAKE UP!"

I felt a grip on my shoulder and I tried to shake it off but it didn't work.

"AUSTIN!" I gasped and sat up.

I looked around panicking and saw Ceci right next to me, a worried look on her face.

She put her hand on my shoulder and I flinched. "Austin, you're okay, it was just a nightmare, it wasn't re—" before she could finish her sentence I lunged forward and hugged her as tight as I could. Tears escaping my eyes as I did.

I heard her whisper sweet nothings in my ear and I held her. I dug my nose into the crook of her neck, crying.

I used to never cry. I used to not have nightmares. I used to not be broken.

I cried harder. She held me as tight as she could.

Cecily POV:
I woke up to Austin whispered yelling in his sleep. Since his house was ransacked, his family and him have been living in our guest houses, and Austin and I have been snuggling in my room, which usually results in us falling asleep.

After he woke up he hugged me as tight as possible, I hugged back of course. Although his head was in the crook of my neck, I could hear him crying.

God what did Ivan do to him.

I can't even imagine, but I'm never letting him go again.

During the three months he was kidnapped, a lot happened. I demanded my father give me training and allow me to become part of the mafia. I needed the training so I could help save Austin. I took care of Autumn. She couldn't understand why her brother was missing, we spent so many nights crying for him, I almost ran out of tears. His father was a wreck, who could blame him, he spent several nights at our house plotting with my father.

Austin was silently sobbing in my arms next to me. Tears of my own slipped down my cheeks, I thought it was hard to watch my twin cry, but wow, this was worse.

I loved him. So much. Although it's been a few short months, I could just tell he was the one. I loved him so much and I never told him.

"I love you." I whispered to him.

He pulled out from the hug. "What?"

"I love you." He saw the tears in my eyes and wiped them away. "I never got to say it before—" I stopped.

"You didn't have too." He said before he crashed our lips together, in a long passionate kiss. Only separating for a breath, while we breathed we put our foreheads together and he cupped my cheeks.

"I'm never letting you go again." I choked.

"Me either." He said before pressing his lips back on mine.