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Chapter 43;
Randy's POV;
I was grateful that she was willing to give me a chance to make this right and the fact that she was willing to try and believe me was all that I had been hoping for when I had arrived here because I knew that after what I had done it wasn't going to be just as simple as saying sorry.
Cameron was a strong willed person and she didn't forget easily and I knew that she had been forced in to being that woman after all that Steven had put her through.
I watched as she drained her bottle of beer and lit a cigarette; being a chain smoker I knew that it was her release; the one thing that could keep her grounded and me being here wasn't going to be easy for her I knew that.
"I SAID I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE WHORE IS!?" A female voice sounded through the house causing Cameron to tense automatically.
"Hey what is it?" I asked watching her closely my concern building quickly.
"I don't fucking believe this!" She muttered pushing her chair back and moving to the sliding doors, where she pulled them open and disappeared inside.
I didn't want to impose but from her reaction I knew that she was going to need back up and it wasn't that I didn't think she would get it from Jeff and Matt; 'cos whether Jeff realized it both brother's loved her passionately.
I had seen the way Matt watched her, the way he interacted with her and the way he supported her no matter what. I figured that he knew how he felt but he couldn't understand it and if the time ever came; I would help him out with it.
So getting to my feet I followed behind her in to the house and through to the front hallway where Jeff and Matt were stood at the door holding a woman back; with just one look at the woman I knew without a doubt she was in some way related to Steven; they had the same dirty blond hair, the same piercing green eyes and the same tone in their voices.
"Shayne!" The woman said instantly seeing Cameron standing in the hall behind her man and his brother.
Cameron had requested that we continue to call her Cameron because she hadn't been Shayne for a very long time and not one person disputed her decision because after all that she had been through she had earned the right to be the woman that she was most comfortable being and Cameron seemed to be the person that she was easiest being.
"Margaret," Cameron said through clenched teeth.
"What did you do!?" She screeched as she rushed at Jeff and Matt who both managed to hold the woman at bay.
"I didn't do anything Margaret," Cameron replied coldly as she held her posture not once flinching as the woman continued to fight to get past Jeff and Matt.
"He loved you…why would you treat him like that? Why did you run away in the middle of the night…?"
"The hell he loved me…you don't know what he was like…"
"Don't start with this again Shayne…" The older man said from where he had been stood quietly.
"Don't start!? He beat me Jim; he held a gun to my head as he raped me! So tell me exactly what I shouldn't start?" Cameron demanded moving forward until she was stood directly behind Jeff instantly choosing the brother that she felt would do anything to protect her.
"He wasn't like that," The woman named Margaret defended Steven.
"Are you calling her a liar?" Jeff growled angrily as the information of Cameron having a gun held to her head while being raped seemed to be news to him as he flinched…only momentarily.
It was obvious to see that both men would do whatever they had to, to ensure that she was safe as they held the woman at bay as she continued to fight against their stone wall, which was really pointless because Jeff and Matt were rooted to the spot and there was absolutely no way that they were getting in the house.
Cameron's POV;
My insides were twisting and turning making me feel sick as my insides seemed intent on tearing me apart. My entire body was shaking with fear but I knew without a doubt that Jeff and Matt had my back; they wouldn't allow either Steven's Mother or his Father to get past them and in to the house.
"You're lying!" Margaret screamed at me causing Jeff to push a little too hard and she crashed back in to Jim's arms.
"Mom!" CT's voice filtered to me from the stairs causing me to turn and look at my son.
"Baby go on back up to bed," I soothed softly.
"Dylan!" Margaret rushed forward again to be stone walled by the 2 huge bodies of my boyfriend and his brother.
"Are you ok Mom?" CT asked not even glancing at the woman.
It had been a long time since he had been called Dylan and he didn't even respond to the name anymore. Matt glanced over at my son as he seemed to be rooted to the spot where he was watching his Grandparent's trying to get in to the house.
"Randy!" Matt said through gritted teeth.
"Yes?" Randy asked from behind me.
"Come here," Matt ordered in a commanding tone. "You want to make amends start by taking my place here,"
"You got it," Randy said without thought and moved to where Matt was and swapped places with him.
"You ok sugar?" Matt asked stopping next to me and touching my shoulder softly.
"Mmhmm," I nodded my head unsure of what to do.
"I'll go take CT back to bed and you stay and try to get these idiots to listen ok?" He whispered in to my ear as he leaned in to kiss my cheek.
"Thanks big bear," I smiled at him as I stayed firmly behind Jeff, especially now that Randy was standing where Matt had been stood.
Like I said it would take a while before I trusted the man and right now was going to be a huge test on whether I could indeed trust him or not.
Matt's POV;
Taking the steps 2 at a time until I was stood in front of CT who was watching his Mom with concern and fear mixed in his green eyes.
"Hey tiger," I smiled hoisting him up on to my shoulder and climbing up the rest of the stairs to the second floor.
"Uncle Matt I want to stay where I can make sure my Mom is ok!" He said from over my shoulder.
"Your Dad has it covered big man," I said before turning on to the landing at the top of the stairs.
"HE IS NOT DYLAN'S DAD! DYLAN HAS A DAD!" The woman screamed from the front door; her tone angry and accusing but it didn't seem to be that it was getting her anywhere as I finally made it in to CT's room and closed the door behind us.
Laying him down on the bed; he stared up at me as I fell down on to the huge beanbag in the corner of the room and looked back at him.
"Why are my Grandma and Grandpa here?" He asked me.
So that was who they were; I had to admit that I had thought as much but the woman didn't look old enough to have a son of Steven's age but CT had confirmed it to me so there was no point in questioning him.
"You remember them?" I asked softly as he pulled the covers up over his body and lay facing me.
"Mmhmm! I didn't like going…"
"How come?" I asked when his voice trailed off in to nothing.
"Whenever we were in their house I wasn't allowed to play, I had to sit on the sofa and watch nature programmes with my Grandpa…he isn't nothing like Pops," CT said.
From the moment that CT had met my Dad he had called him Pops and I knew that it was something that my Dad liked; he didn't have any other Grandkids but I knew that he was desperate for so he welcomed CT as his own; much like Jeff had done.
"Yeah the Legend is one of a kind that's for sure," I chuckled softly as he nodded his head in agreement.
Screaming and shouting filtered up the stairs and in to the room where we were chatting and I could see CT flinching with every angry word exchanged between the Parent's of his Dad and his Mom.
"Hey you ok there big man?" I asked moving forward until I was kneeling in front of him.
"I just thought that we had left that all behind us," He whispered as the sound of Cameron screaming that they were deluded if they thought their precious son was a fucking saint and the sound of it seemed to make CT curl up a little tighter.
"Left what behind you son?" I asked softly.
"The screaming and shouting…"
"You remember that?" I asked watching him in the dim light of the bedroom.
"Mmhmm! It was always Steven screaming though…nothing she did was ever good enough, the house was always a mess and she never had control over me…I know that I was a handful and that it was hard for her on her own…"
"Hey it wasn't your fault…"
"But if I hadn't cried so much or didn't want to play with so many toys at once then…"
"You were a kid CT; that is what children do…they like to make a noise and they love to play with loads of different toys at once. Trust me when I say that you didn't do anything wrong at all ok?" I pressed softly.
Fucking Steven had a lot to answer too and now that he was dead he would never have to be held accountable for anything that he did and in a way that made me mad as hell.
"Mom told me that too,"
"Then both of us can't be wrong can we?" I asked smiling at him.
"I guess!" He replied. "It was just hard to hear them fighting every night and I was so little that there was nothing I could do to help her…"
"You and you're Mom have always been close huh?"
"Always! Steven was hardly ever home and when he was he was always screaming at her and hitting her…"
"Must have been hard CT but you know that you don't have to worry about that anymore right?" I asked as the screaming war continued on downstairs.
"I do! I love Jeff and I know that he would never do to her what Steven did," He replied smiling happily.
It wasn't hard to see that he had become attached to Jeff and I knew that the feeling was vice versa and there was nothing that my little brother wanted more than to be a part of CT's life and to spend the rest of his life loving Cameron.
Knowing all of that I had to learn how to bury what I was feeling for my little sister 'cos at the end of the day, I didn't want to ruin the happiness that they shared as a couple; the happiness that they had never experienced before.
AN HOUR LATER;
Jeff's POV;
Finally they left; Randy and I slammed the door and locked it. Randy instantly took off to the back door to ensure that it was also locked so that no one could get in to the house.
If his actions over the past hour were anything to go by then I knew that Ron and I really had nothing to worry about with him.
Gently pulling her in to my arms she collapsed against me and sighed as she dropped the X-rays that she had pulled from one of her boxes that we had moved over here earlier in the afternoon.
I had listened as she screamed at the man and woman about how she had, had to go to the emergency room on countless occasions after Steven had gotten carried away and had beat her to badly.
X-ray after X-ray were thrown in their faces; broken ribs, broken wrist, shattered ribs and a dislocated shoulder all at the hands of the very man they were trying to protect.
Anger had welled up inside as I thought about all that she had been through at the hands of him. I had known that it had been bad but I hadn't realized just how bad it had been.
"I'm going to go to bed and leave you 2 to it ok?" Randy said reappearing in the hallway.
"Ok Randy and thanks for what you did," Cameron said softly refusing to move from my embrace which suited me fine, if I could get away with it I would have her in my arms forever.
"No need to thank me," He said moving to the stairs. "Night guys,"
"Night," Ron and I both chorused together as we moved to the living room and collapsed down on to the sofa.
Looking in to her eyes I could see the effect of having those people close to her, masked in her eyes.
"Who were they sweetheart?" I asked wiping the hair from her beautiful eyes.
"They were…Steven's Parent's," She admitted resting her head back against the soft plush cushions on Matt's sofa.
"What!? How did they know…?"
"The police probably told them where to find me," She sighed heavily.
"I can't believe this shit…here we were thinking it was over," I growled angrily.
"But it's clearly not," She sighed again as she reached for the smokes on the table and lit up inhaling deeply. "Now I have to worry about them…what the hell…am I never going to be truly free of him?"
I could hear the fear and trepidation in her voice as she looked in to my eyes and begged me for answers that I didn't have; what was I meant to say?
"I'm sorry baby girl,"
"What are you sorry for?" She asked looking confused.
"That I can't keep them away from you, that I can't keep you out of their…"
"I don't want to hear that from you ok? This isn't your fault, it is theirs for thinking that their son was a fucking saint; I mean he died in a fire that he started…that should have been a God damn indicator to them that he wasn't the innocent party in all of this,"
"I know but I feel like I should…"
"I don't want to hear you doubting yourself you got me? I want us to forget about it as we planned too and just enjoy the fact that Steven is gone…I don't see them continuing to be a problem…they may fight for the right to see CT but…"
"It ain't fucking happening!" Matt said wondering in to the room and throwing himself down on to the sofa on the opposite side of Cameron. "I swear if I have to remortgage this house then I will do because I don't want him to have anything to do with them princess ok?"
"Sure," Ron replied softly. "Not that I mind you looking out for my son but what has brought this on…?"
"I just listened to the things that he remembers when you and Steven were together…I won't have him being pulled back in to that whole fucked up family," He growled angrily.
"Thank you Matt that means more than I can…"
"No need!" He replied kissing the top of her head softly.
Was I really so off the mark when I thought that my brother had a thing for my girl?
Scooping her up in to my arms, I tried to block the thoughts of Matt wanting her the way I did to the back of my mind and moving towards the stairs saying goodnight to my brother.
The sound of him mumbling goodnight back reached us as I reached the top of the stairs and moved to our bedroom with one thought on my mind and that was to hear all of what she had been through because hearing the things that she said to Steven's Parent's it was obvious that I didn't know the whole story and I needed to know if I were to get past the things that she had been subjected too.
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