Chapter 1

I parked the car in front of brother's house, I could feel the sobs building up as I thought about why I was here in the first place.

Flashback

I was hiding in the closet, shaking with my silent cries and I could hear HIM stomping around for yelling for me. "You fucking bitch get your fat ass down here right now" my husband Royce King shout out. He was right outside of the door and suddenly light was flooding the place and I looked up to see my husband's angry face.

"Get up" he shouted grabbing my hair and pulling me out of the closet. I looked down while he said "It's time for your punishment."

"Please" I begged him "It won't happen again."

"Sorry" he said, not sounding sorry at all "you need to learn your lesson" and with that started to drag me down towards the basement. He gropes his way down the stairs and flick on the lights. I quickly look over the place and see that blood is covering the floors and walls. My body starts to shake all over again as I try to suppress the memories of this place. I'm shaken out of my thoughts when I feel something cold on my wrists. I looked up and saw that he chained my wrists and was now working on my ankles so I looked like a big X. He walked over to a cabinet on the far side of the room. He opened it up and pulled out a leather strap, then walked over to me. He started the stroke my cheek and pushed and strand of hair behind my ears and said "If only you had listened to me my pet" he said in a soft voice "I'm truly sorry for this" and then I felt a searing pain across my stomach and thighs. I screamed out in pain and started to beg and plead for him to stop, instead the lashes got stronger and faster. I could feel the warm trickle of blood across my stomach and thighs, while my screams got louder. After a while the pain got so unbearable that the darkness washed over me.

I was rescued from my thoughts by my brother opening up the car door and sweeping me into their arms for a bone-crushing hug. I felt protected in their arms and relished in the feel of them wrapped around me.

"I missed you guys so much" I cried with tears of joy streaming down my face.

"Don't worry sis we missed you too" my brother Tyron Swan said. Tyron is twenty-eight, has curly brown hair, and warm hazel eyes.

"Yeah, it's mighty boring here without you" Tyron's twin brother Carlos said. Carlos is younger of the two my three minutes and has brown hair in a buzz cut and also has hazel eyes that always seem calculating your every move.

"Tyron" I heard a girl squeal, I looked over and saw a blonde girl with violet eyes running this way. I could feel the fear thinking that I was going back into hell and then darkness.