Sufferable Acceptance

Seventeen

Theo

While eating dinner with Marcus and an important potential client I got a text message. Assuming it was my mom again, stress texting me, I pulled out my phone ready to put my phone on silent, but then I saw a text from Amelia.

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911 HOUSE HURRY

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Shit!

I ran out of the meeting before even apologizing to everyone at the table. I ran to my car and sped back to the house. I sped through the city, but even with as fast as I was going I was still thirty minutes out.

I tried calling and texting Amelia back, but she didn't answer. I called the front gate as well, but no one picked up. Everyone who was working at the house tonight sent me to voicemail. Having no one else to call, I called Dad. It took him a while to pick up, but when he did I shouted out my words.

"Are you by Mom?" I asked.

"What? Why what's going on?" He asked.

"Just tell me, can Mom hear me?" I said again.

"No, she's at our table talking to Maria." He said.

"Something happened at the house. I got a 911 text from Amelia. I can't get a hold of anyone. I'm headed to the house now. I have no idea what I'm walking into Dad. I need whoever is with you to get you to the safe house, now." I explained to him. "I don't know if the twins are alright, so do your best to get Mom out of there without finding out. I'll call you when I get to the house. Call everyone and tell them to be careful getting to the safe house, and to meet you there as soon as possible. I don't want anyone going back to the house until I figure out what's happening."

"Ok." He said with worry in his voice. "I want an update as soon as you can. Get everyone out of the house quickly. Meet us at the safe house."

Shortly after hanging up on him I pulled up to the house. The gate office was empty. In it sat two dead guards.

I sped towards the house and found more and more men lying dead on the ground. The front door was open. Running in I immediately saw a man lying at the bottom of the stairs. He had a knife sticking out of his stomach.

Anger flowed through my veins. Where were the twins and Amelia?Spotting another body in the hallway to the left I ran in the opposite direction. Another large man laid still in the dining room. A cord around his neck. Afraid to yell and draw attention to myself I quietly ran to the kitchen.

There behind the island of the kitchen sat a bloody Amelia and the twins. Ava and Oli were clinging to Amelia sobbing their eyes out. Amelia was close to passing out. She snapped her head at me and got ready to jump up, but relaxed when she noticed it was me.What the fuck happened here?

"Theo!" The twins cried.

They ran to me and held me tight.

"What happened?" I asked Amelia.

"There were three of them. They came in through the front door. I don't know how they got in, but they're definitely Russian." She said weakly.

I saw her attempt to stand up, but fall back unable to use her arms. I grabbed her and helped her up. Her face was covered in blood. She had a cut lip and a nasty cut on her eyebrow.

"We have to get out of here." She said to me trying to walk out the door. "We have to leave before more come. Ava, Oli let's go." She said, grabbing them back from me and heading out to my car.

Amelia helped the twins get in the car without seeing the bodies laying all over the yard. She held them tight and closed their eyes as we left the estate. While driving I kept looking back at her. She had calmed the twins down a bit, and they were slowly falling asleep. I made eye contact with her through the back mirror.