I only own the plot

CPOV

TRIGGER WARNING: CHILD HARM

"My mom had Luke when she was 18. His birth father died exactly a year after he was born in a house fire. My mom met my dad Ray Steele 1 month after that and then I came along. Luke and I actually share the same birthday. Ray also adopted Luke when he and my mom got married soon after I was conceived. When I was around 6 and Sawyer was 8, my mom was caught cheating on Ray with a man who actually worked with Ray. Apparently he saw her visiting one day and just had to have her."

She says this with the deepest eyeroll I have ever seen. I don't want to correct her. I love her mannerisms. Normally eye-rolling would piss me off, but never with her.

"Ray divorced her, but maintained he wanted custody of us. He let her know that she could see us every summer if that is what we wanted. She never fought him on the rights to see us. She married the man who she cheated on Ray with and they moved across the country to New York. Every summer, Luke and I would get on a plane to see her even though we both really didn't want to. Well, I think Luke wanted to. He's always had a soft spot for her." She takes a deep breath before she looks me in the eyes. Blue-green meeting gray.

"Christian, baby. Please do not judge me for what I am going to say. I was a child and scared. I can't take it if you look at me any differently." She says with tears in her eyes.

"Nothing will ever change my mind about you or us. We are one. What you feel, is what I feel. I'm here forever Beauty." She gives me a teary smile and with a firm nod she gets back to her story.

"Her husband was always a very weird person to me. He just stared at me all the time. It wasn't until the summer I turned 10 when he started hitting me because I would cry to my mom. Telling her that I wanted to go home to my dad. He would hit me where no one could see it. He would tell me no one would believe me if I told. He would wait until my mom would run out to do whatever was more important than spending time with her kids, and Luke would be out with the friends he made while we were visiting. I took his word for it. I let the abuse happen. What I didn't know at the time was that Ray was paying my mom support money for us during the summer. He would often send a lot more than necessary because he wanted us to have a good time. My father is well off and wasn't hurting for the money, so it wasn't a big deal. Her husband told me if I told my dad, he wouldn't believe me and when I came back the next summer he would kill me. That he would make it look like an accident and they would still get paid for Luke visiting."

I am boiling on the inside right now. How can anyone hurt my Beauty. I want to hurt this man. I want to end this man. I will talk to Anastasia at a later date to see if she will allow me to end this piece of trash. I don't want to bring up any unpleasant memories for her. If she wants to forget, we will forget. Whatever she wants.

"It wasn't until the summer when I was 14 that he was caught. He had heard me on the house phone leaving my dad a voicemail asking him to send me a plane ticket to go home. I was fed up. This was going to be my last summer visiting anyway. Well, her husband didn't like that very much and snatched the phone out of my hand and hung it up. He dragged me by the hair into the bathroom and started filling the bathtub up. While the water was running, he continued to hit and kick me in the stomach. When the water was halfway full he grabbed me by the hair again and shoved my face underwater. I tried to fight. I promise I did, but I was so much weaker than him. Well, he didn't hear that Luke had come back in the house because he had forgotten his basketball. Luke was 16, and the time and you see how huge he is now, imagine back then how huge he was. Luke heard the commotion going on in the bathroom, it was me splashing trying to fight back and her husband yelling at me to die. Luke burst into the bathroom and tossed him off of me. He grabbed me and ran out of the house, rushing down the street to the nearest shop. He called our dad and we were gone the very next day. My dad wanted to press charges, but I asked to just leave it in the past. I wanted to forget they ever existed. It went to therapy and everything, so it is not like I am suppressing the trauma. I just have no place in my life for them. As far as I know, they are still married and have no other kids. If they did, we would have taken legal action to remove those children. I just wanted to move on with my life." She looked back up at me and gave me a real smile. The smile she gave me when we first met.

"Now you know everything about me. I won't ask if you still want to be with me. You said you do and I am going to trust you and take your word. I just ask you to be patient with me. I sometimes flinch when sudden movements happen and I don't want you to think I am afraid of you. I never could be afraid of you. I have only had a few boyfriends, but I have only had sex with one of them and I quickly broke up with him when he thought it was funny that I was flinch away when he would make sudden movements." She moves and crawls on my lap once again.

"Now that we know everything, we can move forward. We can move towards our happily ever after." She kisses me deeply and pours all of her emotions into this kiss, so I do the same. After we break apart, I rub up and down her back while looking at her sheer beauty.

"We will be so good together, Beauty" I tell her with my famous smirk.

"You damn right baby" She gives me the biggest smile.

Damn, I have to marry this woman soon.